Connect… Three Costume Designers Meet for Tea on the Edge of a Cliff 31 Mar 2021 By Lux Haac, Dominigue Fawn Hill, and Deb Sivigny Originally published on February 22nd, 2021 by HowlRound Bringing together three designers—let alone three designers of the same discipline, costume design—for…
Connect… DESIGN Meeting 31 Mar 2021 Structured as a departmental check in, designers will report out on the state of our community and the field as whole Originally aired on February 26th, 2021 by HowlRound Welcome…
Connect Message of Hope Video 13 Mar 202114 Mar 2021 Published March 2021 We've compiled a video for the one year anniversary of the great shutdown of the arts and entertainment industry. Big thanks to everyone who submitted videos! Hoping…
Connect Podcast Introduction: We Shadows 5 Jan 202123 Jul 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 202129 Dec 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 202127 Aug 2022 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 20206 Apr 2021 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…
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