Slight Shift In Format

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Joe Patti

Starting Sunday, I am supposed to go and help set up the Appel Farm Arts and Music Festival for two weeks. Since I won’t have the time or access to all the research materials I do from my home base, I thought I would change format for those two weeks and model my blog after Sam Bergman’s Road Trip blog on Artsjournal.com.

It will be fun reflecting and reminiscing. It will also provide an opportunity for me to explore the viability of using blogs as an exercise to explore the processes and choices that are made, discarded and perhaps revisited as I suggested way back when I started blogging.

Hope you will join me. It should be fun.

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Joe Patti

I have been writing Butts in the Seats (BitS) on topics of arts and cultural administration since 2004 (yikes!). Given the ever evolving concerns facing the sector, I have yet to exhaust the available subject matter. In addition to BitS, I am a founding contributor to the ArtsHacker (artshacker.com) website where I focus on topics related to boards, law, governance, policy and practice.

I am also an evangelist for the effort to Build Public Will For Arts and Culture being helmed by Arts Midwest and the Metropolitan Group (details).

My most recent role is as Theater Manager at the Rialto in Loveland, CO.

Among the things I am most proud are having produced an opera in the Hawaiian language and a dance drama about Hawaii's snow goddess Poli'ahu while working as a Theater Manager in Hawaii. Though there are many more highlights than there is space here to list.

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