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Feed Your Soul

Join me, company members of Available Light Theatre, and a special guest for the second annual Feed Your Soul fundraiser and one-night-only performance this Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Proceeds support Available Light's "Pay What You Want" policy at all regular performances — so theatre remains a basic human right, not available only to the economically fortunate.

 

Feed My What?

"Feed Your Soul" comes from a story once heard by Matt Slaybaugh, artistic director for Available Light:

Mother Teresa once told a great theatre artist.... “There are many famines. In my country there is a famine of the body. In your country there is a famine of the spirit. And that is what you must feed.”

So please join me at the buffet for soul and stomach.

 

Here are the details...

Enjoy an evening with Available Light Theatre at Feed Your Soul 2!

 

Saturday, October 16, 2010

McConnell Arts Center

777 Evening Street, Worthington, OH 43085

 

6 p.m.            Hors d’oeuvres & Silent Auction

7:30 p.m.       Performance Buffet

Featuring unique performances by company members and friends

Hosted by Ruth Milligan, TedX Columbus 

8:30 p.m.         Live Auction

Featuring auctioneer Artie Isaac

9 p.m.             Dessert and coffee

Tickets: $40 per person in advance (cash bar); $45 day of event

To purchase tickets: http://www.showclix.com/event/13275/

and view a list of auction items: http://bit.ly/feedyoursoul10

 

Questions? Contact Melissa L. Weber: melwriter78@yahoo.com or (614) 327-6024.

See you there!

 

Do It Yourself

For years, I've assigned my Personal Creativity and Innovation students at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business the large job of planning their own creative development.

Why?
Because, after we graduate, we still remain students. In fact, we also become our own teachers. Otherwise, we just become mushrooms. 

The assignment is significant. It requires the development of a five-year curriculum for self-study.

This plan defines one's aspirational creative legacy and what must be done during the next five years — who should I meet? where should I go? what should I read? what should I learn? — to help make this legacy a reality.

But, For You, The Quick Course
Do you want a shorter version of this painstaking work? O.K. 

I'm glad to offer a two-page worksheet called Carry Forth! Personal Creative Development Plan. I'll be formally presenting it this Thursday at the Columbus Museum of Art at Creativity In Your Life.

(If the session is recorded, I'll post it here.)

You can find your own copy of Carry Forth! here.

What is this "here" of which I write?
During the past couple weeks, I've written a site — with the good professional advice of Rob Emrich and Jason Janoski — that describes what I do for a living. (It is now the landing page at artieisaac.com.)

Putting this new site together forced me to narrow my declared occupations.

For the past two years, I've been juggling lots of balls.

Over time, some of them have gotten heavier, some have taken on a golden hue.

I've had to put a few balls down. (For example: marketing strategy, which I love and do pretty darned well, is conspicuously missing from the new website, even though I wrote this page to describe it.)

Can't do everything. Can't do everything fully.

Don't worry.
Net Cotton Content continues. I'm not putting down this ball.