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State Of Employment Poll & Review July 20 – July 26

Mon, Jul 7, 2020
by Drew McManus
We saw an uptick in the number of responses this week thanks in large part to a 28 percent increase in respondents identifying as arts administrators. Having said that, the overall trajectory for each stakeholder group remains mostly unchanged as most continue moving toward higher ratios of under-employed and unemployed statuses, Weekly Report Responses from
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Retrenchment

Fri, Jul 7, 2020
by Drew McManus
There’s an intriguing blog post by Jacob Harold published on 7/15/2020 at blog.candid.org where he examines potential scenarios that could drive nonprofits to close over the course of the pandemic. While I’m still getting through all of the methodology, there’s no denying that we’ll see some retrenchment in the arts and culture sector. It happens
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Time For The Second Course: Post-COVID Curtain Speeches

Thu, Jul 7, 2020
by Drew McManus
Tuesday’s post turned into an expanded conversation on my Facebook wall and while some of the discussion tilted toward the overall “like/dislike” perspective of curtain speeches, the rest of the discussion focused on how those speeches should unfold during post-COVID events. A number of orchestra execs weighed in on the conversation as did my blogging
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Turn Portrait Images Into Landscape

Wed, Jul 7, 2020
by Drew McManus
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Over the weekend, I posted the following rant about portfolio aspect ratio images on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theorchestrainsider/posts/10158048811978800 Given that it’s always a good thing to balance a rant with something productive on the same topic, I decided to create a free Photoshop template that provides one method for converting a portrait image to landscape. There’s an
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Food For Thought: Post-COVID Curtain Speeches

Tue, Jul 7, 2020
by Drew McManus
I want to toss out a short academic exercise in the form of thinking about how the ubiquitous curtain speech will fit into post-COVID concerts. Even before the shutdowns, curtain speeches were pushing the envelope of ticket buyer patience and starting to have a negative impact on the overall concert experience. At the same time,
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