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Weekly Update

Teresa’s Weekly Update: Audacious Experimenters Edition

by Teresa Eyring November 21, 2011 Weekly Update
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Happy almost Thanksgiving! Our Fall Forum on Governance, which took place over last weekend, was a tremendous success. We had record attendance, and the Forum community of trustees, theatre leaders and artists had the opportunity to delve deeply into questions about the range of assets that form a theatre’s capital structure. In his kickoff keynote, [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: The Human Theatre

by Teresa Eyring November 14, 2011 Weekly Update
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When you think theatre, do you think rural community? Joan Schirle did, and her vision helped lead to the founding of Dell’Arte International, just one of the many TCG member theatres working in small towns and rural communities. Hear Joan talk about the power of theatre in a rural setting in our latest I AM [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: The Remarkable Things Edition

by Teresa Eyring November 7, 2011 Weekly Update
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“It should not be remarkable that we stopped talking about arts in education and started talking about arts for education.” I love this quote from Susan Booth, artistic director of the Alliance Theatre, in her essay for TCG’s Education Centerpiece, On Turning 50, Education Survey 2010 (PDF), which we released yesterday. Using our 2010 Education [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Shatter the Box Edition

by Teresa Eyring October 25, 2011 Weekly Update
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Last week I was in Washington, DC for the fall LORT meeting, where it’s a pleasure to see and catch up with so many colleagues. Laurie Baskin delivered an advocacy update, including an extremely helpful report with the latest information on the complex issue of White Space, as well as other advocacy issues. We will [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Embracing Velocity Edition

by Teresa Eyring October 17, 2011 Weekly Update
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Last week, I was at the annual Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, where the theme of the meeting was Embracing the Velocity of Change. There were important discussions about the rapid demographic shifts in our nation, the “hybridity” in the creation of art, the growth of diverse and community-based art and the importance of appropriate [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Columbus Day Edition

by Teresa Eyring October 10, 2011 Fall Forum
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As I mentioned previously, I was in China for the ITI World Congress in September. TCG is the U.S. Center for the International Theatre Institute, and several of our member theatres and affiliates were able to travel to China for that gathering. Rick Dildine, executive director of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, was one of the [...]

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