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Tools of the Trade / Re: Excel tips
« on: Jan 21, 2012, 11:57 am »
i love this thread.
bring on your excel tips!
bring on your excel tips!
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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Working with a younger cast
« on: Jan 16, 2012, 09:04 am »
Good luck with kids. I expect you will have a lot of fun.
You might find some helpful ideas in these older threads...
http://smnetwork.org/forum/index.php/topic,1452.msg38275.html#msg38275
http://smnetwork.org/forum/index.php/topic,2990.msg18234.html#msg18234
cheers
ChaCha
You might find some helpful ideas in these older threads...
http://smnetwork.org/forum/index.php/topic,1452.msg38275.html#msg38275
http://smnetwork.org/forum/index.php/topic,2990.msg18234.html#msg18234
cheers
ChaCha
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The Green Room / Re: 12 for 12 in 2012 (Thank you, 12!)
« on: Jan 14, 2012, 09:34 am »PSMKAY
THANK YOU
TOO
THANK YOU
TOO
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The Green Room / Re: SM Conference in the UK
« on: Jan 07, 2012, 07:01 am »
Yes, kinda hard for stage managers to just take the day off for professional development I guess! Hope you get there.
Cheers
ChaCha
Cheers
ChaCha
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The Green Room / Re: Happy New Year SM Network
« on: Jan 05, 2012, 09:19 am »
Happy new year to you all too.
Hope its a good one!
1. Implement a systematic savings plan and personal budget ( long overdue!)
2. Create some boundaries between work and the rest of life again
3. Use the five or six weeks annual leave I am owed already...
Hope its a good one!
1. Implement a systematic savings plan and personal budget ( long overdue!)
2. Create some boundaries between work and the rest of life again
3. Use the five or six weeks annual leave I am owed already...
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The Green Room / SM Conference in the UK
« on: Jan 05, 2012, 07:22 am »
http://stagemanagementconference.eventbrite.co.uk/?ref=esfb
Anyone in the UK going to this?
Sounds like a great idea.
New year greetings to all,
ChaCha
Anyone in the UK going to this?
Sounds like a great idea.
New year greetings to all,
ChaCha
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Employment / Re: Hiring in NYC: Experience and other factors
« on: Dec 16, 2011, 11:54 am »
Yep, its a tough world and those are some tough truths. But you wouldn't be where you are if you didn't have the capacity to face the facts, and honour the requirements of the roles.
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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: House is Open or Closed?
« on: May 07, 2011, 10:36 am »
Im with the house open people. But just as an aside - does anyone else use the phrase 'the house is live' for the backstage announcement, instead of open? A british thing perhaps?
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: PAPERWORK: What to call someone who the script is "Adapted by"
« on: Apr 04, 2011, 12:35 pm »
How about 'Writer' ?
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The Green Room / Re: Too big for our breeches: Server update and poll
« on: Mar 19, 2011, 12:31 pm »
What loebtmc said!
And nice work team, that's fundraising sorted
And nice work team, that's fundraising sorted
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The Green Room / Re: Too big for our breeches: Server update and poll
« on: Mar 17, 2011, 11:06 am »"Donate" button has been clicked, and followed through. Who else is putting their money where their mouth is?
I have made a donation, and I encourage others to do so. Be assured that it really doesn't matter how much you contribute. $2 or $200 it all adds up in the end.
I really think that this is an issue where the community need to step up and resolve the issue; Kay can't be expected to do it all. If we value the site - and clearly we do because we keep coming back - it is for us to do our share in finding this relatively small amount of cash for actual expenses involved in keeping it online.
But i am glad the Australian dollar is worth so much more against the greenback these days!
Cheers
ChaCha
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The Green Room / Re: Too big for our breeches: Server update and poll
« on: Mar 16, 2011, 11:39 am »
PS.
I have recently been working on philanthropic campaigns for two independent theatre makers I work with. I knew nothing about this kind of fundraising before and sat down with an expert. After a long and reasonable informative session he made the one remark that has totally stuck with me since; "Just remember that (with philanthropy) where most not for profit organisations and individual artists fail is that they never actually ask the question. They never quite bring themselves to say 'please support me by giving money' "
PPS. I just had another idea. How about crowdfunding? It started in the USA didn't it? As far as I can tell people who have nothing to do with a project and who don't even live in the same hemisphere might well donate! My communications manager raised money toward publishing a book through crowdfunding on a US site, and she lives in West Australia.
I have recently been working on philanthropic campaigns for two independent theatre makers I work with. I knew nothing about this kind of fundraising before and sat down with an expert. After a long and reasonable informative session he made the one remark that has totally stuck with me since; "Just remember that (with philanthropy) where most not for profit organisations and individual artists fail is that they never actually ask the question. They never quite bring themselves to say 'please support me by giving money' "
PPS. I just had another idea. How about crowdfunding? It started in the USA didn't it? As far as I can tell people who have nothing to do with a project and who don't even live in the same hemisphere might well donate! My communications manager raised money toward publishing a book through crowdfunding on a US site, and she lives in West Australia.
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The Green Room / Re: Too big for our breeches: Server update and poll
« on: Mar 16, 2011, 11:15 am »Kay, what happened to the "Donate" button? If we could see it and use it, you might simply have to mention it a couple of times a year, to get some cash flowing in!!
RuthNY and others with a paycheck,
Click on the word ABOUT in the top right corner of your screen
A drop down list will appear
Select DONATIONS
And donate to the running costs of the site via credit card or paypal.
I agree with those below who point out that not many donations are required. Why not do that first and see if generates enough income. If it works then;
The second year, no one who donated in the first year is eligible to donate at donation drive time
If not enough cash is received you go the google text option etc.
Come on members, donate a few dollars today and save Kay the bother of all this polling and researching. I am sure she has better things to do with her time.
Cheers
ChaCha
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The Green Room / Re: This one goes to Eleven!
« on: Jan 16, 2011, 08:49 am »
Happy Birthday SM Network and thanks Kay and Moderators for all your work.
In Jan 2011 I was the sites manager for The Angel Project directed by Deborah Warner at the Perth International Arts Festival. I should have been issued a skateboard with the job as we had over 50 people in buildings, on roofs, and in building sites all over the CBD - half of them dressed as angels... I lost my voice 3 days before it opened... I discovered Perth has the highest rate of suicide by jumping of any city in Australia when the police tried to arrest some of my angels on a roof on the corner of Hay St mall...
I had been a freelance stage manager for six years! All seems a looooong time ago.
In Jan 2011 I was the sites manager for The Angel Project directed by Deborah Warner at the Perth International Arts Festival. I should have been issued a skateboard with the job as we had over 50 people in buildings, on roofs, and in building sites all over the CBD - half of them dressed as angels... I lost my voice 3 days before it opened... I discovered Perth has the highest rate of suicide by jumping of any city in Australia when the police tried to arrest some of my angels on a roof on the corner of Hay St mall...
I had been a freelance stage manager for six years! All seems a looooong time ago.
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Employment / Re: Juggling Acts
« on: Jan 09, 2011, 08:37 am »Like, I am beginning to feel, until I get firm offer with money and dates told to me, and signed contract ready for me . . . no ones needs to know about the other person, until I want to pressure the other one to either come up with the another offer . . .or I make a decision I want the offer in front of me, I call up everyone else and let them off of the hook . . . and wait until the call me, and tell them I have taken another offer.
Personally I think this is all absolutely correct. Until someone stumps up the contract you have no obligation to tell them of any other conversations. I suppose I wouldn't let someone think I was totally and irrevocably committed to their project if they were still looking for funding (and in this instance I would imagine that they would be amply aware that you could become available - just that people in grip of enthusiastic belief in a project might assume that you too are committed to the cause...), but if they are just in the 'well I want you, but its really up to the Director' stage then definitely no need for them to know of other conversations you are having unless you think that extra pressure might get them over the line. Basically, if they are actively hiring then it is for them to realise that until they make a firm offer of course you are going to be pursuing other options. You have to eat after all.
Regards
ChaCha