Featuring: After Dark Productions ~ or, Murder in the Library!
Murder in the library – a popular program for libraries around the world, one that is personally near and dear to my heart (having played parts in two in-house “productions” in the last two years!). The format for this classic game is familiar to many: actors (library staff or other local talent) mingle with guests...
Featuring: Carlota Zimmerman
Today our featured artist is Carlota Zimmerman, a creativity consultant based in New York City. Here she discusses how the New York Public Library was instrumental in her development as a playwright. ~ Laura by Carlota Zimmerman I grew up in New York City in the 1980s, so I was always reading my way through the...
Featuring: Diablo Ballet Company
The team members at the Library as Incubator Project have been big fans of Diablo Ballet, a company located in County Costa, California, since the project began over a year ago. So, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the company’s Marketing Director, Dan Meagher, to the site today. Most impressive about this company’s program...
Bringing Books to Life at the Eau Claire Children’s Theatre
When you go to see a live theater performance, do you ever start to wonder about all the people who work to make the show look so good? Maybe, maybe not, but you can be sure that theatrical production crews are there behind the scenes. Lighting, sets, props, sound, and costuming – all of these...
“Grimm Women,” and an upcoming TEDx Talk by Brandon Monokian
Our friend and summer time guest blogger Brandon Monokian is back this week with an update on a new project, a play called Grimm Women that he wrote and directed. As you can probably guess from its title, the play riffs on classic fairy tales, uniting visual art, writing, and the performing arts to present a lively,...
Contemporary Dance at Flushing Library
This past spring, we featured an exciting collaboration between the Queens Museum and Queens Library, the New New Yorkers Program. This program, managed by José E. Rodriguez, consists of a range of classes for immigrant adult communities in Queens. The classes are taught in a large variety of languages, and focus on the arts, technology...
Featuring: The Dance Heritage Coalition
by Christi Weindorf The Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) is all about building supportive and inspiring partnerships between libraries, archives, dance organizations, dance companies and dance artists. These alliances are focused on preserving, enhancing, augmenting and providing access to collections that document the past, present and future of dance as an art form. The coalition is...
Featuring: Playbods, an interactive art program for families
The Library as Incubator Project is pleased to welcome Bryony Pritchard and Kim Glassby to the site today. Together Bryony and Kim form Playbods, a program that engages participants in exploring different art forms, from dance and movement to storytelling and visual arts. We love their multidisciplinary approach to their work and to their emphasis...
Page to Stage: At season’s end
Brandon Monokian is a theatre artist who works in the New York City and New Jersey area. For the Page to Stage guest blog series, Brandon will document the process of bringing three works from the page to the stage – all in the Princeton Public Library. by Brandon Monokian And so a second season...
Page to Stage: Fate, love, and music in “Eurydice”
Brandon Monokian is a theatre artist who works in the New York City and New Jersey area. For the Page to Stage guest blog series, Brandon will document the process of bringing three works from the page to the stage – all in the Princeton Public Library. by Brandon Monokian Next up on the Page...
Cafe Poets at Melbourne City Library
by Laura Damon-Moore One-off performances and workshops by poets, musicians, and other entertainers are hugely popular in libraries and serve as valuable additions to a library’s program roster. But long-term partnerships or residencies mean that an artist works closely with a library to facilitate a suite of programs, integrating inspiring performances with hands-on learning opportunities....
Page to Stage: “The Arabian Nights”
Brandon Monokian is a theatre artist who works in the New York City and New Jersey area. For the Page to Stage guest blog series, Brandon will document the process of bringing three works from the page to the stage – all in the Princeton Public Library. by Brandon Monokian Like life, nothing is ever...
