Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Black Theater Artists and Shakespeare
Folger Shakespeare Library: To commemorate Black History Month in February, we’re sharing some of our Shakespeare Unlimited podcast interviews and blog post Q&As with acclaimed Black theater artists—actors, directors, playwrights—and scholars about performing Shakespeare, then and now, and adapting and transforming Shakespeare plays for our time.
Guthrie Theater heads into union negotiations, disagrees with management about DEIA
MPR News: A newsletter from the Guthrie Theater Front-Facing Staff Union, dated Friday, Jan. 25, announced that IATSE Local 13 and the front-facing departments at the Guthrie met with Guthrie senior management. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss creating a union contract — and quickly ran into disagreements about DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility), as well as other labor questions.
Climate Policy Frameworks for the Ecological Transition of the Cultural Sector
HowlRound Theatre Commons: In 2012, Arts Council England (ACE) became the first national cultural body to make environmental reporting a condition of funding for all National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) and Major Museum Partners (MMPs) in the subsidized arts and culture sector. As part of their funding agreements, these organizations were required to develop environmental action plans and report annually on their environmental impacts, focusing initially on energy, water, and waste.
At Intersection of Race and Intimacy, Drama Professor’s Work Onstage Informs Students Offstage
News - Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon University’s Kaja Dunn described the work of an intimacy coordinator in the performing arts as a combination of choreography, dramaturgy and physical intimacy. Intimacy coordinators work with actors during acts of simulated sexual contact and other forms of intimacy to determine where they are comfortable being touched, but — just as fight choreography is more than just coordinating punches and kicks — there’s much more to it.
What Will It Take to Lure Production Back to L.A. in Wake of Fires?
variety.com: Survive till 2025, they said. They didn’t say what would come next. A week into the new year, wildfires devastated Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena, causing an estimated $250 billion in damage. For the entertainment industry, they also disrupted production schedules, destroyed filming locations and left many workers without homes.
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