I’m looking for a story to tell. Do you know one?

I was recently awarded a 5,000 Euro, no-interest loan from the Dekeyser & Friends Foundation. This loan is intended to help push EVET Arts Presents, my DreamPlan – a performing arts presenting and producing company – from the realm of idea to actuality. EVET’s inaugural project, funded in part by this loan from Dekeyser & [...]

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Ingrained Hate

I was driving through Davis Square with a friend last night. We were arguing and we were both upset. My friend pulled up to a light and proceeded, a little aggressively, to turn. There was a cab coming from the left who didn’t heed his signal, and, fueled by our argument, my friend pulled ahead anyway, [...]

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That Solid Decision… Isn’t So Solid Anymore.

There are as many variables as there are questions and as many questions as there are possible answers. Arts Presenting Professional #1: Ambivalent about graduate degree but conceeds its not necesary where hiring is concerned. Stanford MBA-candidate from film background: MBA wouldn’t target my needs in the entertainment industy, but an MAM (Masters in Arts Management) [...]

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Social Outreach Theatre

A Google search for “social outreach theatre” yields first an organization called Loka Humana. Apparently run by a single female trained in physical theatre and currently living in New York, Loka Humana strives to “bring joy and laughter to disadvantaged children, big and small, around the world”. As I sit on the couch, eyes darting [...]

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Graduate School. Yes, Graduate School.

This past fall I applied to graduate school. This past winter I was accepted, and this past spring I paid my deposit to attend Carnegie Mellon – Heinz College’s program in Arts Management in Pittsburgh. But I wasn’t sure I was really going to go until this week. Now I’ve finally made my decision. In [...]

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Management 101 – Notes from the Field

Things I’ve learned about team management that I attribute to reading Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s book, Confidence, while working abroad in Turkey. These are things I hope always to implement and never to forget: 1. Lead by example. If you want your team to work hard, show them the way by doing. There is nothing more [...]

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Giving In Order To (But Not Expecting To) Receive

You can tell a lot about a culture by its language. In Turkish, there exists a tense for what has or will supposedly happen; for what someone else says has happened, but you haven’t seen for yourself. There’s a serious lack of accountability in Turkey’s corporate world, and oftentimes even in personal relationships in the [...]

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