@emilymbadger loved your NYTimes Article. The debacle with Airbnb is another misguided legislation hurting small business owners who have an apartment to rent out to supplement their income and tourists who want a sense of neighborhoods and can't afford hotels. #airbnb
@mhdksafa I remember when I visited my x boy friend who now had married a man. My daughter said, "where's the mommy?" And I said, "sometimes there is a mommy and a daddy and sometimes two mommys and sometimes two daddys. Her response was "oh,,,okay". End of story.
@wyszniewski@jeremymbarkerNY@culturebot Because they are exhausted finding money. The importance of true exploration among artists and producers in partnership has been largely lost. How can we engage in productive dialogue to make these changes?
@wyszniewski@jeremymbarkerNY@culturebot In the 80s and 90s seeing funders in the audience was a common occurrence. You could have dinner and engage in discourse about work. Now you can't even get many of these funders on the phone. There are leaders in the field like Howard Gilman. Prominent leaders quit
@wyszniewski@jeremymbarkerNY@culturebot Incisive reporting but what has not yet been discussed is the availability of money for the artists and producers trying to find it. The philanthropic community by and large supporting "downtown" work has fundamentally changed. I have been around long enough to see the differenc
@saybarra When theatres ask for change, they need to truly mean it and be willing to support the change makers ideologically, artistically and financially and make sure board and staff all have the same definitions and expectations around change. Otherwise the effort is doomed.
@MikeLew4 People were critical of me for going to Disney for nine years, but if I hadn't of gone, I wouldn't be doing En Garde Arts today. We forget that people without tons of family support need to make a living.