Participants Selected for Staging Change | Toronto!
With great pleasure and excitement, EmcArts announces the cohort of fourteen Toronto-based performing arts organizations that have been accepted into … Continue reading
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Announcing Host Sites for EmcArts Community Change Workshops!
EmcArts is delighted to announce the first three locations for our two new workshop programs in pursuing community change through … Continue reading
Richard Evans Speaks on New Toronto Program
When Richard Evans co-founded EmcArts 20 years ago, he recognized that, though many arts organizations wanted to adapt and innovate … Continue reading
Announcing a New Webinar Series from EmcArts!
For over ten years, our programs have equipped participants with rigorous frameworks and practical tools for innovation. We’ve heard from … Continue reading
Support EmcArts & ArtsFwd!
Here at EmcArts, we pride ourselves on the work that we do to build adaptive capacity and make innovation possible! We know that … Continue reading
Photo Essay: Planting New Seeds to Cultivate Food Security in Dallas
Community Innovation Lab | Dallas is part of the second round of EmcArts’ Community Innovation Labs program, which addresses tough social challenges in … Continue reading
Eric Booth on the Global El Sistema Movement
In this interview, Lee Ann Norman and Eric Booth discuss the global El Sistema movement, which is the basis of his new book Playing for Their Lives: The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016).
Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators: Announcing Cohort 2 Fellows from New York City
EmcArts has selected 12 fellows of color from New York City for Cohort 2 of Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators (ALACI).
Working Open Community Call 3: Learning through Transitions
EmcArts is continuing it’s series of community calls as part of the “Working Open” initiative to share strategies and learning about innovation in real-time.
The Theater Offensive: Can A Continent Be Our Neighborhood?
An in-depth case study documenting The Theater Offensive’s ambitious project to host a national network to support queer youth theater organizations in North America.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum: Epiphanies and Contradictions in the Art of Slowing Down
An in-depth case study about The Porch Project, an experimental community engagement project on “radical slowness” by the Chicago-based Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
Leadership and Organizational Culture: Conversations with Edgar Schein
Read about ALACI Cohort 1’s seminar with Edgar Schein on organizational culture, and why it’s an important aspect of facilitating adaptive leadership and change.
Site-specific Storytelling: La Jolla Playhouse’s Theatre Without Walls
La Jolla Playhouse offers an annual subscription series of six new plays, re-imagined classics, and musicals to over 100,000 patrons in San Diego County and Southern California. In their Arts Innovation Fund project, they created Theatre Without Walls (WoW), a site-specific initiative designed to remove the physical limits of typical performance venues by immersing audiences in theatrical work in a variety of community settings.
We’re Growing! Announcing New EmcArts Team Members
EmcArts is very pleased to introduce several stellar additions to our team in the areas of Process Facilitation, Communications, Operations, and Board Development.
Lessons from the Field: Case Study on Latino New South
An in-depth case study documenting the successes of Latino New South, a collaborative innovation between Levine Museum of New South, the Atlanta History Center, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. These three organizations entered EmcArts Innovation Lab for Museums with the intention of making their programs and institutions more resonant with, and responsive to, the fast-growing Latino communities in their respective cities.