Monthly Archives: August 2012

by Jini Stolk I’m not sure if the Regent Park/Parliament Street dance companies have officially adopted that term, but it wouldn’t be out of place. Not only is COBA becoming an anchor tenant of the Regent Park Cultural Centre, but Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie is firmly placed in their new space, The Citadel, just across […]

by Jini Stolk As we said in our final report on Creative Trust’s Audiences Project, good databases and box office systems are the essential base for effective audience relationships and communications but are, in their own way, the most difficult to put in place and maintain. Altogether, Creative Trust helped more than 30 companies move […]

by Jini Stolk That is certainly one of the questions. How casual is too cas on Twitter? Would your donor followers be upset 2c that your company’s tweets are heavy with Twitter-speak? How do you handle criticisms on Facebook? We all know that some companies promptly remove any negative comments about a show. What about […]

by Jini Stolk One of Donna Walker-Kuhne’s most emphatic recommendations during her recent workshop with Regent Park/Parliament arts organizations, was “we have to tell our stories.” Please note that she didn’t add the word “better” to that pointed message: first and foremost, we have to tell our stories. During this depressing (at least to me) […]

by Jini Stolk Donna Walker-Kuhne, one of North America’s foremost writers and practitioners on diversifying audiences, recently met with eleven new and long standing arts organizations clustered around Regent Park. This was the final workshop of Creative Trust’s 3-year Audiences Project, and Donna made it special. She inspired us all to pursue the creative and […]