Friday night I watched some of my singing students perform in their final year show. I was a proud poppa as I watched them strut their stuff. I know how much they have improved over the two years we’ve worked together – they’ve grown as singers, they are stretching their wings as actors and they […]
Pathway Four: Business Skills
The fourth pathway is called Managerial Tools & Leadership Skills by Lisa Sonora Beam. I find that a bit of a mouthful, so I think of it instead as Business Skills. This is where you have the most capacity to learn, grow and develop your business. The other three pathways are about taking stock of […]
Pathway Three: Value & Profitability
Today is where we start to look at how market forces affect your ability to be successful in making a living out of your art. It’s important to point out that as an artist you have a right to produce any art you wish. We all need to express ourselves creatively. Just can’t expect other […]
Pathway Two: Gifts and Flow
Yesterday we looked at identifying the elements of your art (or craft – or anything really) that have ‘heart & meaning’ for you. The next step on the pathway, as set out by Lisa Sonora Beam, is to look at Gifts and Flow. What’s the difference, you probably wonder? While heart and meaning is about […]
Four Pathways of the Creative Entrepreneur – Path One: Heart & Meaning
There’s a great book by Lisa Sonora Beam which I highly recommend: The Creative Entrepreneur – A DIY Visual Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real. Find out more about her here. She has this great way of looking at the Creative Entrepreneur by separating four pathways. Each pathway is an exploration in and of itself; […]
Reality vs fantasy
I spent the afternoon recently with an actor acquaintance. The summer previously, he had done a very nice job at a very prestigious outdoor summer theatre. On paper, it seemed like a dream job: great show, great cast, good director, nice venue. I was jealous. So imagine my surprise to find out he really didn’t […]
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going Beverly Sills
A Creative Career -vs- A Creative Life
One of the concepts that I want to explore on this blog is how to be creative for your entire life. What I am calling “creative sustainability.” So much of our creative training, whether art school, drama school, music school etc (and since I went to all three, I think I have an idea of […]
Offhand comments
(this is another post I found buried which never got published. It’s from a few months ago “Your voice sounds tired.” it was an off hand remark after I was trying to vocally warm up at 7:45am before heading out the door to teach all day and do another performance of my show. How am […]
The Spiritual Business – the art of making people feel good
(I found this post hiding on computer, so it was no longer last night, but point is still valid.) Last night I went to a London concert for Krishna Das, a spiritual musician of Indian chants with a significant following. The event was at the Camden Centre with approximately 800 people in attendance. I was […]
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