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Barry's Blog: The Time for the Arts to Make A Move in the Presidential Election is Now. I hope our people are working on this.

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Sunday, May 3, 2015. The Time for the Arts to Make A Move in the Presidential Election is Now. I hope our people are working on this. And the beat goes on……………. Issues, along with some simplistic and virtually meaningless platitudes about those issues. Everybody will talk about what we need, almost no one will talk about how we get what we need. The Arts have several problems in trying to play the presidential campaign game to its own advantage. Spare me the bogus and utterly false belief. Third, politic...

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Barry's Blog: June 2014

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Friday, June 20, 2014. A Potential Deep Divide in the Arts Sector is Brewing. And the beat goes on…………………. S P E C I A L R E P O R T - Equity and Arts Funding Allocation. Apologies if some of the font in this post is smaller. It may turn out ok, but the Google Blog Platform seems to frequently make its own decisions - for inexplicable reasons - and try as I might I can't get it to change its mind…….). The demographics of urban areas is rapidly changing and the inevitable march to previously minority popu...

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Barry's Blog: December 2014

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Monday, December 29, 2014. Happy New Year and Thank You. And the beat goes on………………. As I wish all of you a safe, sane, successful and joyous, healthy, prosperous new year, I want to extend my deepest appreciation for your continued support and kind and gracious feedback. I'll be back after the first with new interviews, new blogathons this Spring and some new features. I hope for your continued support and that you will perhaps even help me to increase the subscriber base further by recommending the...

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Barry's Blog: February 2015

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Sunday, February 22, 2015. In the Skills Adults Think Kids Need to Succeed, the Arts Come in Last. And the beat goes on…………. In a recent Pew Research Center survey. Of what adults think are " the most important skills for children to get ahead in the world today". Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, the arts come in last. Again. This is frustrating. At the core of art is " communication. At the essence of performing arts is " teamwork. For some reason (unclear to me) the Survey arbitrarily included Mu...

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Barry's Blog: Programs for the Underserved; Programs for the Overserved. Time to Switch Priorities

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Monday, March 30, 2015. Programs for the Underserved; Programs for the Overserved. Time to Switch Priorities. And the beat goes on……………. Generally defined and understood as: fairness, justice. The issue has been center stage for us for sometime. We have narrowed our focus on diversity. But diversity is a mask. It's a symptom of the underlying issue - which is structural racism. And dealing with the symptom rather than the root cause is increasingly being recognized as an inadequate approach. In a sense, ...

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Barry's Blog: October 2014

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Sunday, October 26, 2014. Thoughts on Hiring Key Staff. And the beat goes on………………. I think we often prioritize the wrong things in our quest to search for the best leadership for our organizations. There is a maxim carpenters use: ' Measure twice, cut once. Meaning that to be safe you need to measure any piece of wood you are going to cut two times before. It also occurs to me that our whole approach to finding the best candidate for our leadership might benefit from re-thinking. I have come to the ...

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Barry's Blog: August 2014

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Sunday, August 24, 2014. Announcing the Dinner Vention 2 Discussion Topic. 8220;And the beat goes on. There is no shortage of BIG issues facing the nonprofit arts field. From the issue of equity (particularly in funding allocation), to finding an income model that will sustain our organizations;. From meeting the ongoing challenge of audience decline, to managing our attempts at generational succession and leadership preparation;. And, of course, that's just a partial list. 2) a topic under which might f...

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Barry's Blog: Four Areas Arts Organizations Need to Master

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Sunday, May 10, 2015. Four Areas Arts Organizations Need to Master. And the beat goes on………………. Everywhere the search for lost audiences and a safe haven continues. We have new research every week that adds new dimensions of things we need to consider as we try to figure out who is coming, who isn't, why and what we can do about it. We have no shortage of information and data, no shortage of questions - yet we don't have many answers. Here are the four areas that we need to master. 1 The digital world.