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Internet-Based Theater Company Lives Between Cyberspace and the Stage
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From Joann Pan at Mashable:

A small Philadelphia-based company called New Paradise Laboratories is re-creating theater for the connected generation. It’s incorporating social networks like Facebook, Skype and Chatroulette into the production and presentation of shows, pulling theater into the virtual space.
Creating Pennsylvania’s Future Through the Arts and Education
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Just added to the GIA Library is Creating Pennsylvania’s Future Through the Arts and Education, a report from The Education Policy and Leadership Center. The report follows a year-long process of discussions by a 32-member Study Group, a comprehensive review of relevant public policies in Pennsylvania and other states, eight regional community forums, and surveys of several stakeholder groups by EPLC.

Daisey! Daisey! Daisey!
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Quick roundup of commentary on the Mike Daisey controversy:

NYFA Selects 2012 Hall of Fame Honorees
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New York Foundation of Arts has selected five artists to be the 2012 NYFA Hall of Fame Honorees. Architects Elizabeth Diller + Ricardo Scofidio; multi-media artist Christian Marclay; playwright Suzan-Lori Parks; and patron of the arts Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas will be so honored on Monday, April 30, 2012.

Making Room for History, Science, Art in the Common-Core Era
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From Erik Robelen at Education Week:

Several education experts recently made the case for the importance of ensuring topics such as history, science, and the arts get adequate classroom time and attention as states and districts begin to implement the Common Core State Standards. The issue was the focus of a March 15 event hosted by the Washington-based research and advocacy group Common Core, which has just announced plans to create a set of curriculum maps
The Case for Change Capital in the Arts
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The Nonprofit Finance Fund is hosting a webinar called The Case for Change Capital in the Arts: Building Vibrant and viable Cultural Organizations. Presented by NFF's Rodney Christopher and Rebecca Thomas, the webinar will take place 3:00pm EDT / noon PDT on Thursday, April 19. Also participating in the webinar presentation are Cynthia Hedstrom and Jamie Poskin of The Wooster Group, and Amanda Nelson and Thomas Cott of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation.

Register for the webinar.

Artists Find Benefactors in Web Crowd
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From Patricia Cohen at The New York Times:

Online financial crowd-sourcing of artists still represents only a smidgen of the more than $8 billion that private individuals donate to the arts each year. Nonetheless, the speedy proliferation of such Web sites has attracted notice. “Everybody right now is looking for ways to exploit technology to maximize and customize the ways people engage with the arts,” said Sunil Iyengar, research director at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dudley Cocke on Art and Political Power
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The Friday installment of the weeklong Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power is penned by Dudley Cocke, artistic director of Roadside Theater and a former GIA Board member:

...So the question is: What would it take for a theater like Roadside to have real political clout? Part of the answer: For low income, working class, and middle class audience members like ours to have real political clout.

This raises the question of how, in our democracy, the majority of us have become subjugated to a wealthy minority of us. When we talk about the arts gaining political power, I think this is the bigger problem we need to address, and I’m worried that we’ve lost the democratic infrastructure to pursue a solution.

Art Hack: Crowdsourcing Digital Art From The City
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Ariel Schwartz for Co.Exist:

Stick a bunch of artists, web designers, developers, and hackers in a room, and what do you get? A visual and acoustic representation of Bay Area earthquake data, a sound collage of randomly dialed phone numbers, and on-the-fly digital art created from MP3 files.
Ra Joy Joins Art and Political Power Discussion
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The latest installment of the online discussion Clout: A Blogfest on Art and Political Power is Ra Joy, executive director of Arts Alliance Illinois:

The best way to move the needle on arts policy issues (whether it’s Barry’s NEA budget or Arlene’s WPA 2.0 idea) is to create strong grassroots and grasstops networks that transcend age, race, ethnicity, geography, and other factors.