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T-Cell & I @ PACE: day 6 – SWOT, O!?

O+ Statistics New Zealand, ten years after the Cultural Statistics Programme was established in 1993, pegged theatre attendance at approximately 27% in its 2003 report, entitled, A Measure for Culture. [http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/exeres/39B6A2C6-4358-4806-AA60-21A9E2B70401.htm] Attendance rates were highest for women (59%

T-Cell & I @ PACE, SORT OF: day 5

I’ve sent the following, under various guises and permutations, to: http://www.mch.govt.nz; http://www.fuel4arts.com; http://www.thebigidea.co.nz; http://www.nzlive.com. WHO’S DOING WHAT WHEN WHERE HOW TO WHOM IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AND ARE THEY GETTING PAID FOR IT? I’

& I @ WINZ: day 4

My charming trainee case manager at WINZ experiences some difficulty in explaining to me why I am eligible for an UB of no more than $36.21 per week. She tries to create a diversion by bringing up on her screen various conversion charts and highlighting irrelevant figures. Acknowledging her

T-Cell & I @ PACE: day 3 – SWOT on track despite setback – deeper rabbit-hole found: notes on Strengths and Weaknesses internal to the project of establishing a theatre group called T-Cell

W- LACK OF FINANCIAL NOUS In the past I’ve relied on a producer, manager or collaborative partner. Not that I don’t know how to hold purse-strings, I can spend and be thrifty, but as for putting the money in the purse: I can hold down money; I

& I @ WINZ

never young, golden & bulletproof, ever old, deluded & fragile, I contacted WINZ today to hear how my UB application was getting on: UB is allegedly the support mechanism for those enrolled @ PACE, although you can slide in via SB, sickly and not so slickly. Gordon – this was the 0800

T-Cell & I @ PACE: day 2, SORT OF

To write a letter to performing artists? to the performing arts community? sector? to theatre practitioners? to theatre workers? poets, makers & workers? (wouldn’t wankers be next in the series?) to whom it may concern … ? interested parties? partisans? compagneros? erroristas? (see <<empyre>> discussion for this

cont. (from previous post): scene ii, dreams, plans and schemes, ideal, S.O.R.T. O.F.

– image courtesy OMA What theatre practitioner, performing artist, thesb, with a room or without one, a broom, or without, would not be excited by Rem Koolhaas’s re-imagination of the bricks-&-mortar playhouse he or she would claim to be more familiar with, would, indeed, claim to have