Taking Up The Challenge

by:

Joe Patti

Since I am transitioning out of holiday mode here, I am not ready to blog on topic and seriously, but instead am taking up the gauntlet Drew McManus threw down and am doing the Meme of Four thing.

Four jobs you’ve had in your life (not in chronological order):
-Census Taker
-Grocery Warehouse Quality Control Auditor
-Beverage Supervisor at a Rennaissance Faire (I was even in costume!)
-Computer Lab Assistant
(Yeah I have had a lot of theatre jobs, but that is what you expect me to list right?)

Four movies you could watch over and over:
-Lord of the Rings Trilogy (cause really, it is only one really long movie, right?)
-Ghandi
-The Magnificent Seven (Seven Samurai too, of course)
-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Four places you’ve lived:
-Cedar City, UT
-Sarasota, FL
-Potsdam, NY
-Honolulu, HI
(Alas, I find I could actually answer this question about three more times without repeating.)

Four TV shows you love to watch:
-The West Wing
-Fullmetal Alchemist
-Deadwood
-Mythbusters

Four places you’ve been on vacation:
-Portland, OR
-Washington, DC
-Zion National Park
-Panama City Beach, FL

Four websites you visit daily:
Artsjournal.com
Ucomics.com
Salon.com
Bullshido.com (10% for the education, the rest for the entertainment)

Four of your favorite foods:
-Open face everything bagel with veggie cream cheese, slice of tomato and salt and pepper
-NYC pizza
-Hot Dogs with grandmother’s bizarrely appealing barbeque sauce
-Well made carrot cake (as much as I love chocolate, a good carrot cake will lure me away)

Four places you’d rather be:
-Hugging my 10 month old nephew
Powell’s City of Books
-Night sledding by a full moon
-Still living in the entire second floor of a Victorian house

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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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