Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
As if Harvey wasn’t enough, hurricane Irma is now heading toward Florida. I’ve been helping some of my Venture Platform clients prepare and I wanted to pass along some of the same insights to help other arts organizations in the area can anticipate and mitigate any potential outages. I published a checklist at ArtsHacker that covers website, online ticketing, domain registrar, and email providers. By all means, if any arts managers …
A recent inquiry about adding Adaptistration to a PR list made me realize that at one point in time, there was a dedicated press release address but after a host of abuses, it was deactivated. Having said that, you are encouraged to send an add-to-list request via the existing contact form. Just be sure to: include the organization’s name, the nature of the list, confirm you are an employee of the …
Arts organizations impacted by Hurricane Harvey are just beginning the process of dealing with damaged assets. Music libraries, archives, costume and scenery shops, and a host of related specialty production departments are beginning to sift through material to see what can be salvaged and repaired. Fortunately, there may be some resources to help with those tasks. Joe Patti recently wrote an article at ArtsHacker.com that examines the role preservation groups and …
Take a moment to treat yourself today and get to learn about ins and outs of orchestra management from a humorous perspective by binge-reading all 157 episodes of Who’s Minding The Score?, a satirical cartoon that provides a behind the scenes look orchestra life. It’s the ideal way to spend some of your Labor Day, really, just take a look at some of these characters… [easy-tweet tweet=”I’m spending part of my Labor Day reading …
Houston area performing arts organizations have been making good use of social media by keeping stakeholders updated on damage estimates and related news. To that end, it appears that none of the larger budget organizations were spared although some fared slightly better than others.