Connect Podcast Introduction: We Shadows 5 Jan 202127 Jan 2021 By Leazah, Anita, and Rachel Published January 2021 Rachel: Welcome to We Shadows, a podcast featuring event and performance technicians, designers, and production folks in Minnesota. Today we’re introducing our…
Connect… Advanced Gig Tracking 5 Jan 2021 By Roger Published January 2021 In March 2020, we shared a simple spreadsheet to help keep track of work, pay, and employers. It was a basic, straightforward record of what…
Connect… Pivot 5 Jan 2021 By Gaea Published January 2021 Theater people are masters of the side hustle. For the most part, we started our professional careers as freelance labor, jumping from one gig to…
Connect… Not so Micro: How You (and I) Might Not Fully Understand Microaggressions 1 Oct 2020 By Kenji Published October 2020 2 Things before I get into the article: CW: As an Asian-American theater maker, I am going to be mainly focusing on racial microaggressions/racism in…
Connect Minneapolis Road Case March 1 Oct 20205 Oct 2020 Video by Leazah; Photo by John Bartley Published October 2020 On September 10th, 2020, approximately 154 Live Entertainment workers, who are out of work, pushed road cases from the loading…
Connect… Foundations of Courage: Do You Have a Baseplate? 1 Oct 2020 By Anna Robb Published October 2020 “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear” – Mark Twain I remember the exact moment I read this…
Connect… Move to Help… Stand in Solidarity 1 Oct 2020 By Tony; Photo by Regina Marie Williams Published originally August 2020 in USITT Northern Boundary News I remember March 13th well. We had a final preview that night. We showed up…
Connect… #RedAlertRESTART Minnesota 1 Oct 2020 By KikiSpecial thanks to Monkey Wrench Productions for organizing this event. Published October 2020 #RedAlertRESTART, a nationwide event on September 1, 2020 was to raise visibility of the live events…
Connect… Advocacy Matters More Than Ever 3 Jul 202025 Dec 2020 By Allana Published July 2020 I know you’ve got your own things to deal with right now. I know you're under a lot of stress and bandwidth is scarce. I've…