Weekly Howl on Thursday, May 30

 

This week's activity will be a voting rally and open discussion forum about the Culture Coin project that HowlRound is proposing in the ArtsFwd Business Unusual Challenge.

 

Vote daily and promote this project with us until May 31 evening so that this project can proceed to the finals and have a chance to be prototyped starting this summer.

 

Culture Coin is a digital currency and a resource sharing economy that seeks to challenge how the not-for-profit arts sector has institutionalized uncompensated sweat equity and challenge our field's assumptions of what resources can actually sustain a creative life in the arts. We want to put the "equity back into sweat equity" and we want to activate the massive amounts of unused, latent resources that could belong to our field.

 

Read Polly Carl's article: Why the Crowd? Why a Culture Coin for more background.

 

On Thursday, get heard in the conversation by searching for #newplay in Twitter (sort by “all”) and by putting “#newplay” somewhere in your messages. Spread the word!

 

*The hashtag #newplay in Twitter is a commons tag (i.e. non-proprietary, community-invested tag) for aggregating global knowledge, information, and conversation related to new works, new performance, and new strategies in the theater.