What's new with you? Four years later – Urgy 2020 - 01
Four years after their last episode, the two catch up on some of the things that have happen since.
Unsurprisingly, that starts with football and drag shows.
Read MoreProcess and Presences - Urgy 17
Change is in the air.
Read MoreSurprise! - Urgy 16
Surprise, delight and relevance in stories and life.
Read MoreEngaging and Sustain - New Funding Model part 2 - Urgy 15
Talking, dramaturgically, through the New Funding Model announced by the Canada Council. In part two we talk and "Engage and Sustain" and "succession."
Read MoreExploring and Creating - New Funding part 1 - Urgy 14
Talking, dramaturgically, through the New Funding Model announced by the Canada Council. In part one we talk design and "Explore and Create".
Read MoreSecret No Secret - Urgy 13
Vicki Stroich (Alberta Theatre Projects) and Jacob Zimmer (Small Wooden Shoe, Lougheed Leadership) talk dramaturgy, theatre, leadership and being human.
This time, designing and evaluating things that are hard to evaluate.
On twitter: Jacob (@jacobzimmer) and Vicki (@vickistroich)
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Of movies and other stories SPOILERS - Urgy Episode 12
Vicki Stroich (Alberta Theatre Projects) and Jacob Zimmer (Small Wooden Shoe, Lougheed Leadership) talk dramaturgy, theatre, leadership and being human.
Jacob and Vickie at the genre movies!
WARNING
We give explicit central plot details away for:
- Star Wars (including Force Awakens)
- Creed
- The Fast and the Furious franchise
- Spy
- Antigone (Sophocles, Evan Webber, Anne Carson)
Also included: some conversation on ideology, story structure, ethics, recurring myths, parables et al.
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On twitter: Jacob (@jacobzimmer) and Vicki (@vickistroich)
Theme: "The Beach! The Beach" by Holy Coast on the Free Music Archive.
Groups, the cause and solution... Urgy 11
Vicki and Jacob talk about groups, making decisions, "We" and "I", dramaturgy and the connections between all of those things.
On twitter: Jacob (@jacobzimmer) and Vicki (@vickistroich)
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Theme
"The Beach! The Beach" by Holy Coast on the Free Music Archive.
Executive flip flops and other costume ideas - Urgy 10
Being taken seriously and signalling artist at the same time and other sartorial dramaturgical questions. Also, Jacob goes back to schools.
Read MoreFinding questions - Urgy Episode 09
In which Vicki talks about talking about how she approaches dramaturgy and question finding - and how that changes when you're the Executive Director, not the dramaturge.
Jacob addresses questions with help from Frank Cox-O'Connell in Dedicated to the Revolutions (2009)
On twitter: Jacob (@jacobzimmer) and Vicki (@vickistroich)
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Links
- Emily Carr
- "The Big Idea" video
Theme
"The Beach! The Beach" by Holy Coast on the Free Music Archive.
Home and Away - Urgy Episode 8
We talk reasons to travel and what a person might learn. We wander into conference and festival design pretty quick from there.
Read MoreAnnouncing change - Urgy Podcast 07
Jacob Zimmer and Vicki Stroich talk dramaturgically about the Canada Council #newfundingmodel and the way it's being announced, designed and received.
Read MorePower ≠ value and Hope decoded - Urgy Podcast 06
Celebration, difficulty, hope and success. Jacob and Vicki talk working on different problems with different people based on our experience at Hope Decoded at the Banff Centre's Lougheed Leadership.
Read MoreLo-Fi Confidential - Urgy Podcast 05
Jacob (@jacobzimmer) and Vicki (@vickistroich) talk to each other from closer than usual.
They talk about vulnerability, confidentiality, leadership and twitter.
Nobody Rides Horses to Montreal Anymore - Urgy Podcast 04
Jacob Zimmer (@jacobzimmer) and Vicki Stroich (@vickistroich) talk about "excellence" and whether artists are special. Part 2 of talking about 4 ways to make the arts for everyone, not just the chosen few.
Read MoreSpace for Art for Everyone? Part 1 - Urgy Podcast 03
Jacob and Vicki talk about space for theatre, travelling locally and where leadership hangs out.
Read MoreGratitude and Michael Green - Urgy Podcast 02
Jacob and Vickitalk about the death of artist, curator and friend Michael Green, his life and many of things he inspired and demonstrated – faith, openness, curiousity and remembering the good reasons we do what we do.
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Origins of Urgy - Urgy Podcast 01
Vicki and Jacob talk origin stories, fear, the importance of honesty in building onging relationships, Jacob's trip to Japan and being clear.
Read More15 - Something for Everyone
Jacob and Vicki talk lessons learned and how we imagine the audience for our stuff and what use doing that might be.
Read More14 - Experience and the people who make it
Jacob and Vicki talk about when she became an honorary citizen of Disneyland. And when the line is not the ride but is part of the ride experience.
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