Recipe for a Thriving Performing Arts Series: Part 1
We’re delighted to welcome Nick Demske back to the Library as Incubator Project for the next installment in his series of posts focusing on process and strategy librarians can use to implement excellent performing arts programs for their communities using a principle we call “Programming as Collection Development.” Nick’s work at Racine Public Library is...
Librarians and community involvement as a professional competence
We’re delighted to welcome Nick Demske back to the Library as Incubator Project for the first in a series of posts focusing on process and strategy librarians can use to implement excellent performing arts programs for their communities using a principle we call “Programming as Collection Development.” Nick’s work at Racine Public Library is an...
Bridging the Arts at Chicago Public Library
Our newest volunteer at the LAIP presents a fascinating overview of the Chicago Public Library’s arts-incubating partnerships in today’s feature. Read on to learn how reaching out has helped the CPL foster a sense of community and a greater appreciation of artistic expression in their city!~Erinn Bridging the Arts at Chicago Public Library Actors transform...
Featuring: Mwatabu Okantah
Today, we feature Mwatabu Okantah, a performance poet based in Akron, Ohio, who also serves as Assistant Professor and Poet in Residence for the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University. His new book, Muntu Kuntu Energy: New and Selected Poetry, is new from Chatter House Press. ~Erinn I am now able to see The Library in the same...
BONK! Performance Series at Racine Public Library
We’re pleased to welcome Nick Demske to the site today to share Racine Public Library’s BONK! Performance Series. Nick is the director and curator of the BONK! Series, which aims to bring challenging poetry, art, and performance to the established local arts community. The series has garnered national attention in the American poetry scene and...
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...
Experimental Music at Cincinnati Public Library
Today, we’re pleased to welcome Steve Kemple to the site to share an exciting new programming series. Steve is the Music Reference Librarian at the Cincinnati Public Library, and the Experimental Music series he launched this summer is going gangbusters! Read on to learn more. ~Erinn Library as Incubator Project (LAIP): Tell us a little bit about...
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...
“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...
