Ideas/Companies We Like

NEXT SESSION  for #NETTEN: DEAL-BREAKERS.
In our next google-hangout date between Yinzer and Turbo Pascal (fourth, but second with a theme), we explored 2 main things:
1) what worked about the role play adventure
2) what were our deal-breakers for collaborators
For 1) We discovered that there is a [...]

#NETTEN Task #1.
So, for this amazing #NETTEN grant we get the opportunity to get to know Turbo Pascal, this super cool German theatre collective.

Our first task (collectively decided by the two groups) was to take on the persona of the other group, based on what we could find on the internet abou [...]

The European Theater Convention is showing off the 5th premiere of Young Europe 2 in Berlin, Germany today. It’s an “artistic education project” linking young people across 7 European countries to create new plays.
What I’m interested in about this project is something ment [...]

1. Look at this killer website.
2. Read this awesome ABOUT section.
To promote increased urban play, Obscure Games will produce a different kind of games festival this year: a showcase of the best new games in the world. Hand-selected as the very best in urban games, the games featured at the City o [...]

In an effort to help us focus ourselves, we have scheduled an hour every friday as our Yinzer “staff meeting”. What does that mean? Cory, X and I spend an hour together on a Google Doc. It may not sound riveting, but I was at the edge of my seat.
Today was numero uno, and boy, did we ge [...]

Right after I wrote about democracy – I went to CLYBOURNE PARK.
It is a play about the American condition.
Back to Democracy.
A matter of choice. That is what democracy is – the ability to have choices. The white family has choices. They can move away.
No – freedom is a matter of [...]

As others have already said, this video offers a fascinating insight into the process of creating a particular work (Yasuaki Onishi’s sculpture Reverse of Volume) in a way that detracts nothing from the artwork itself.

Artists take heed: we CAN let people into our process without taking away [...]

As we think about trying to cast the next apartment play, we’re realizing we don’t know the best way to go about it. The best way to go about seeing actors. The theater we’re interested in making is pretty weird stuff. It’s not for everybody. Maybe we need to create an auditi [...]

There is a point, in all young arts groups that MONEY suddenly becomes a necessity of the conversation. We have been hiding from this, sort-of. It snuck up on us recently and the conversation was pretty interesante.
CORY: I have also been doing reading/thinking about fiscal sponsorship. We do not n [...]