Went to see Theatre Athena's Mother Goose at the Waterloo Entertainment Centre
and will very possibly go again this weekend with both sets of nephews and nieces. I have never seen a Pantomime before and I loved it. Elise Bauman, who read in my reading of Little Crickets last year, was a very convincing Golden Goose. And including Waterloo's own Silly People was brilliant. I think I will try to work some yo-yo tricks into my next script.
The Guardian's Simon Swift went on a panto marathon, seeing seven pantomimes in one week. I suppose we could catch Aladdin in Toronto ...
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge
at Theatre & CompanyDecember 7 - 31.
And it's Pay-What-U-Can on Wednesday, December 13th (i.e. tomorrow) Tickets available at the door, no advance sales.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
LinkedIn Problem
Ok, this is a complaint about LinkedIn. Maybe somebody out there is listening.
The front page on LinkedIn has a section called "Just Joined LinkedIn". It tells me that I have "5 new colleagues from Theatre & Company".
None of these people work at Theatre & Company in Kitchener. They all seem to work at Theatres. My guess is that the LinkedIn software is not handling the ampersand correctly -- perhaps it interprets the phrase "Theatre & Company" as a boolean query.
I have reported this problem twice without any response or action.
Now -- why should LinkedIn care about starving artists? Good question! I can think of a couple of reasons a business contact network should be interested in artists, and why artists should be interested in a business contact network.
1. Artists very often know people with jobs in the real world. They may live with them. They may interact with boards that have members from the real world. So they can act as links between people who might not otherwise know of each other. (There must be an expression for this kind of indirect networking: A-B-A, or B-A-B, instead of A-A-A).
2. Arts organizations need to raise money and market themselves. So they need to network into the corporate world. Here is an idea: theatre companies often give out complimentary tickets as a way to entice people into the theatre. Why not distribute tickets through your LinkedIn network? Hit everybody in Waterloo within three degrees. (Hello, RIM.)
In fact, if the problem above were fixed, I'd pitch the ticket idea to Theatre & Company.
(And off on a tangent a little bit, when I showed Isabella LinkedIn, she called it a "MySpace for Adults". )
The front page on LinkedIn has a section called "Just Joined LinkedIn". It tells me that I have "5 new colleagues from Theatre & Company".
None of these people work at Theatre & Company in Kitchener. They all seem to work at Theatres. My guess is that the LinkedIn software is not handling the ampersand correctly -- perhaps it interprets the phrase "Theatre & Company" as a boolean query.
I have reported this problem twice without any response or action.
Now -- why should LinkedIn care about starving artists? Good question! I can think of a couple of reasons a business contact network should be interested in artists, and why artists should be interested in a business contact network.
1. Artists very often know people with jobs in the real world. They may live with them. They may interact with boards that have members from the real world. So they can act as links between people who might not otherwise know of each other. (There must be an expression for this kind of indirect networking: A-B-A, or B-A-B, instead of A-A-A).
2. Arts organizations need to raise money and market themselves. So they need to network into the corporate world. Here is an idea: theatre companies often give out complimentary tickets as a way to entice people into the theatre. Why not distribute tickets through your LinkedIn network? Hit everybody in Waterloo within three degrees. (Hello, RIM.)
In fact, if the problem above were fixed, I'd pitch the ticket idea to Theatre & Company.
(And off on a tangent a little bit, when I showed Isabella LinkedIn, she called it a "MySpace for Adults". )
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