Tag: support

Finding the Good: Compliment Work Even When It’s Not Your Taste

The road to becoming a working artist is paved with ongoing struggles, and it often feels like a solitary journey. But it needn’t be journeyed alone. One of the easiest, yet most often dismissed ways to cultivate a vibrant artistic community is simply to acknowledge and celebrate the creative work of our peers. And yet […]

Phare, The Cambodian Circus, in Siem Reap

Phare, the Cambodian Circus in Siem Reap is more than a conventional acrobatic circus. The artists create and perform stories based on their own life experiences. Drawing from recent history, folklore and modern society, the artists blend drama, dance, live music, and circus arts to share a part of their lives with their audiences.

LVDAH Kenya Creates Safe Spaces And Nurtures Talent

Lake Victoria Basin Talent Development and Adolescent Health (LVDAH) is a national nonprofit organization committed to creating safe spaces for adolescents. It is an organization which nurtures young people’s talents by providing opportunities and infrastructure for them to express themselves, perform, and grow.

MAD – The ‘Make A Difference’ Fundraising Initiative Battling HIV

MAD – The Make A Difference Trust is a UK based charity with a vision of a world free from HIV and AIDS. Building on a legacy of over 25 years of fundraising by the theatre industry, The Make A Difference Trust raises funds for HIV and AIDS projects that build awareness and provide care, support and education in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Australian Bushfires: What Australia Needs From The World’s Creatives

The celebrity world has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of the Australian bushfires, including the $51 M raised by comedian Celeste Barber’s social media appeal. A half a billion has been raised altogether. Briefly, the bushfires in Australia in the past few months have destroyed 12 million acres (three times more than the 2019 fires in the Amazon), killed 25 people and killed half a billion animals.

Getting The Gig: Theatre And New Artist Development

Graduating theatre students often exit school excited to pursue a career in the performance arts, only to find out that there are minimal initial opportunities for success. There is a very limited capacity for inexperienced performers to artistically create in such a competitive industry.