Dear all,
How's it going? Are you all surviving the crazy winter?
I've started working at Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan since 1/4, as a project coordinator. The first half of 2010 I'll be working with Cloud Gate 1 on the new production Listening to the River premiering in March in Taiwan; the second half of 2010, working with Cloud Gate 2 touring in towns and universities in Taiwan focusing on dance education and outreach. With these said, there's no touring abroad of me this year... Though a little disappointed, I'm having fun at work, learning a lot in this big organization. I'll definitely work my butt off to get into the touring team next year so I can go visit you all :)
The good news is, Cloud Gate is touring to North America for three weeks starting from tomorrow. The company will perform at Harris Theatre, Chicago(1/22-23), Kennedy Center, DC(1/29-30), and Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, Canada(2/5-6). If you happen to be in these three cities and you love Dance, you won't want to miss this!
Miss you lots and lots,
Salina
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Make this blog worth my while
Does anyone have a template for soliciting businesses to buy ad space in a handbill/booklet/concert program? It hardly feels useful reinventing something I know exists somewhere. I just want to insert my logo and my good reasons for buying ad space from us. Where can I find this? I will feign interest in buying ads from your organization if you send me one. :)
Thanks in advance to my extremely knowledgeable colleagues & co-conspirators.
Stephanie
Thanks in advance to my extremely knowledgeable colleagues & co-conspirators.
Stephanie
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
News
Hey guys!!! How are you? I miss you all so much! It's been a while since last time I give you updates... (sorry Dr. Rushton and Susan, internship report is still under process... soon, I promise!) And now it's time!
As some of you may know, I had passed my deadline of looking for a job (due to my visa status) so I packed up my stuff and came home two weeks ago. It was a sad decision to leave the US, especially knowing that I won’t be able to see you guys again in a long long time. I wasn’t able to call you guys up individually cause my phone died on me in the very last couple days and everything happened too fast (and there’s too many stuffs to pack… oh man…) that I didn’t even have time to think through everything I should have done before I left. But I do think about all of you all the time, all the good times and hard times we’ve been through together. Thank you all for being great friends in the past two years and four months so I knew at all times that I was not alone.
Being home has been great. I’ve been eating a lot of good food (but I miss bagels, good cheese, good wine, and good beer) and meeting lots of families and friends. I’ve spent some time on the beach breathing the ocean air—yes, the weather has been like summer in the US! (but I miss the gorgeous white snow and the smell of air coming out from the old fashion heater). All have been great, but I miss my life in New York and in Bloomington. BUT, the greatest thing happened yesterday—I got a job offer from Cloud Gate Dance Company!!! I interviewed with them last Tuesday and have been holding on to my cell phone twenty four seven (literally); you all know how painful it is to wait for the phone call. Can’t describe the complicated feelings in my heart right now but I have to let you all know this great news! They’ve offered me a position in the production team and we’ll talk about the details of my responsibilities next week; maybe I’ll be able to be part of the touring team and go visit you guys soon! Keep your fingers cross for me!
I so much wish you are around to give me a hug. Miss you lots and lots. Write me emails at salina.yeh@gmail.com or call me at my Internet phone 917-652-3098 to leave message (address: No. 1-12 Hua-hsing Street, Hualien 970, Taiwan). Give me some updates of your life too, so I know all my friends in the continent on the other side of the world are doing great.
Salina, in Taiwan
As some of you may know, I had passed my deadline of looking for a job (due to my visa status) so I packed up my stuff and came home two weeks ago. It was a sad decision to leave the US, especially knowing that I won’t be able to see you guys again in a long long time. I wasn’t able to call you guys up individually cause my phone died on me in the very last couple days and everything happened too fast (and there’s too many stuffs to pack… oh man…) that I didn’t even have time to think through everything I should have done before I left. But I do think about all of you all the time, all the good times and hard times we’ve been through together. Thank you all for being great friends in the past two years and four months so I knew at all times that I was not alone.
Being home has been great. I’ve been eating a lot of good food (but I miss bagels, good cheese, good wine, and good beer) and meeting lots of families and friends. I’ve spent some time on the beach breathing the ocean air—yes, the weather has been like summer in the US! (but I miss the gorgeous white snow and the smell of air coming out from the old fashion heater). All have been great, but I miss my life in New York and in Bloomington. BUT, the greatest thing happened yesterday—I got a job offer from Cloud Gate Dance Company!!! I interviewed with them last Tuesday and have been holding on to my cell phone twenty four seven (literally); you all know how painful it is to wait for the phone call. Can’t describe the complicated feelings in my heart right now but I have to let you all know this great news! They’ve offered me a position in the production team and we’ll talk about the details of my responsibilities next week; maybe I’ll be able to be part of the touring team and go visit you guys soon! Keep your fingers cross for me!
I so much wish you are around to give me a hug. Miss you lots and lots. Write me emails at salina.yeh@gmail.com or call me at my Internet phone 917-652-3098 to leave message (address: No. 1-12 Hua-hsing Street, Hualien 970, Taiwan). Give me some updates of your life too, so I know all my friends in the continent on the other side of the world are doing great.
Salina, in Taiwan
Friday, November 13, 2009
A student no more
I can no longer download the free IU software - so that's sad.
But what I really want to know is at what point can I please stop receiving the inane SPEA emails??
Thx!!
xoxo
Stephanie
But what I really want to know is at what point can I please stop receiving the inane SPEA emails??
Thx!!
xoxo
Stephanie
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Expert help needed
Ok, here is our first "request for expertise" post. I need the knowledge of some visual art folks out there. I have 2 images, that I've found on the internet, that my org would like to use in an educational publication, if we can confirm that they are in fact images of the "Great Wagon Road" (related to the history of Appalachian folk music) and we can track down copyright info for them. Does anyone have resources they standardly use to research images? Or can you place the period/style of art or artist? Thanks! -Sarah
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Hello Friends!
Hello Friends - it has been too long! We need to be better about writing to each other - post anything - what you're doing at work that day - I don't care - it's always fun to hear from you all.
I'm still in Washington DC, at the National Council for the Traditional Arts. My job is to assist with the production and logistics of 4 folk and traditional music festivals this season. What this actually means is that I book a LOT of airplane tickets to get stage technicians and sound engineers into our destination cities, and coordinate all of the tech info they need, like stage plots, equipment needs, and schedules, to give them once they're on site. So far, we've done festivals in Butte, Montana; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Bangor, Maine. Our last one will be in Richmond, Virginia, at the beginning of October. We travel out for about a week, but the festivals are just Fri-Sun. I always say that festivals are like summercamp for adults - you make a whole bunch of best friends in a condensed time period. They're good people - the staff is a lot of fun to work with. The office work in the weeks in between gets a bit repetitive, as you go through the same procedure to prepare the artists and staff for each festival, so I tend to live for the weeks of travel. On the academic front, I owe Susan so many update reports, it's embarrassing (soon, I promise!).
Jessica, I looked at that article, and it says Liska is traveling to do the installation the 18-22 - she must be there now! She asked me a few weeks ago to do the museum brochure for Morton Bradley, so I got to learn a little about him. It's still in review for edits among the big folks, though, we haven't reached a final draft. But it's looking good. Liska's colorful words of excitement when I sent it to her really brightened my day :)
On that note, I'm doing more graphic design work all the time, which I really enjoy. IU providing all the new Adobe CS4 software for download to students was a big help to me! My last big project was making light-pole banners, now hanging in 18 locations around the University of Michigan campus (my undergrad). There's a picture on my blog, if you want to see it. (The rest of the blog is lagging a bit - I find the interesting things to write about might be too revealing for the business of wherever I work at the time, and I always feel I owe some loyalty to the organization that employs me, so that's that.) But if you've got graphics projects, send them my way!
My NCTA gig ends in October - so after that I need a new job! So I'm on the hunt yet again....
Hope you're all doing well, and hope to read updates or hear from you all soon, too!
(And if you're in the DC area in the next couple months, let me know!)
all my best wishes,
Sarah
I'm still in Washington DC, at the National Council for the Traditional Arts. My job is to assist with the production and logistics of 4 folk and traditional music festivals this season. What this actually means is that I book a LOT of airplane tickets to get stage technicians and sound engineers into our destination cities, and coordinate all of the tech info they need, like stage plots, equipment needs, and schedules, to give them once they're on site. So far, we've done festivals in Butte, Montana; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Bangor, Maine. Our last one will be in Richmond, Virginia, at the beginning of October. We travel out for about a week, but the festivals are just Fri-Sun. I always say that festivals are like summercamp for adults - you make a whole bunch of best friends in a condensed time period. They're good people - the staff is a lot of fun to work with. The office work in the weeks in between gets a bit repetitive, as you go through the same procedure to prepare the artists and staff for each festival, so I tend to live for the weeks of travel. On the academic front, I owe Susan so many update reports, it's embarrassing (soon, I promise!).
Jessica, I looked at that article, and it says Liska is traveling to do the installation the 18-22 - she must be there now! She asked me a few weeks ago to do the museum brochure for Morton Bradley, so I got to learn a little about him. It's still in review for edits among the big folks, though, we haven't reached a final draft. But it's looking good. Liska's colorful words of excitement when I sent it to her really brightened my day :)
On that note, I'm doing more graphic design work all the time, which I really enjoy. IU providing all the new Adobe CS4 software for download to students was a big help to me! My last big project was making light-pole banners, now hanging in 18 locations around the University of Michigan campus (my undergrad). There's a picture on my blog, if you want to see it. (The rest of the blog is lagging a bit - I find the interesting things to write about might be too revealing for the business of wherever I work at the time, and I always feel I owe some loyalty to the organization that employs me, so that's that.) But if you've got graphics projects, send them my way!
My NCTA gig ends in October - so after that I need a new job! So I'm on the hunt yet again....
Hope you're all doing well, and hope to read updates or hear from you all soon, too!
(And if you're in the DC area in the next couple months, let me know!)
all my best wishes,
Sarah
Thursday, September 17, 2009
campus art takes the world by storm!
Hello, Friends!
I didn't get a chance to read Clare's last post, so I may be a little out of the loop on what's going on with Arts Admin folk...How is everyone doing? I will put together a more detailed update about what I'm doing once I have a little more to update about. In the meantime, I'm working with Liska at Campus Art and having a lovely time doing it.
We wanted to share this article with you. Campus Art doesn't make the headlines terribly often, so we were proud to get some press!
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11848.html
Anyway, I miss you guys. Well, mostly Hu...
Just kidding, I miss all of you!
Stay in touch,
Jessica
I didn't get a chance to read Clare's last post, so I may be a little out of the loop on what's going on with Arts Admin folk...How is everyone doing? I will put together a more detailed update about what I'm doing once I have a little more to update about. In the meantime, I'm working with Liska at Campus Art and having a lovely time doing it.
We wanted to share this article with you. Campus Art doesn't make the headlines terribly often, so we were proud to get some press!
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11848.html
Anyway, I miss you guys. Well, mostly Hu...
Just kidding, I miss all of you!
Stay in touch,
Jessica
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