(Photo: Tiffany Clementi. Pictured: Adam Szymkowicz, Kelly O’Donnell, August Schulenburg, working on Adam’s play CLOWN BAR) After establishing our Core Values at the 5th annual retreat, we moved onto Aesthetic Values. There was plenty of discussion surrounding these values as well; including whether or not we even needed them. After all, we’re artist-driven, and good…
(Pictured: Kelly O’Donnell and Tiffany Clementi on the bus to Little Pond for Flux’s 5th Annual Retreat)There is much to unpack from our 5th annual retreat. The 4th retreat generated so many ideas about values, mission, strategic plan and more that the sheer amount of thought made synthesizing it into a cohesive frame difficult. However,…
It’s that happy time! We’re off to our 5th Annual Retreat at the beautiful Little Pond Arts Retreat (picture above from 2008). The first two days will be spent finishing our work from last year on values, mission, membership structure, and internal communications; then transition into a strategic plan conversation that will look at programming,…
One of the most useful exercises we did at our annual retreat was creating individual lists of core values in order of importance, and then comparing and quantitatively analyzing those lists. Why the italics for in order of importance? Because the results were truly eye-opening. Previously, when we had talked about our values, we had…
One of the exciting things about engaging with the blogosphere is finding moments of common ground amidst separate discussions. Like the physicists of string theory before Witten’s M-theory, we are all unknowingly using different languages to describe the same underlying thing. And like the different arms of M-theory, each language can unravel problems impossible in…
(Photo: Candice Holdorf. Pictured: Cotton Wright, Jake Alexander) It wasn’t all fun and games – behind Jake and Cotton are walls covered in Core and Aesthetic Values, Organizational Flow Charts, Departmental Responsibilities, and more. But it was also fun, and games. And in that spirit, Heather suggested an open thread for all who were there…
We’re off to Flux’s 4th Annual Retreat at beautiful Little Pond Arts Retreat – we’ll have lots to report upon our return!
One of the Core Values being discussed at our 4th Annual Retreat at Little Pond is Ensemble Structure. This value is currently given this rough phrasing: “Flux values a collaborative decision making process that respects the voices of all Ensemble members involved.“ In practice, Flux votes on the plays and directors of the season. Occasionally…
Flux is heading next week on our annual retreat at Little Pond, and we have an ambitious schedule for a week of relaxation, balancing internal questioning with play development. One of the major goals is to begin articulating our Core Values into clear, evocative, actionable items. To do so, we’re not only looking inward and…
(Photo: Tiffany Clementi/ L to R around the table: Johnna Adams, Kelly O’Donnell, Christina Shipp, Ken Glickfeld, Angela Astle, Rebecca McHugh, Ingrid Nordstrom, Jason Paradine, Cotton Wright, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Katherine Burger, Jake Alexander, Kate Marks) Dinner is always a special time at the Flux retreat – after a hard day workshopping plays, chopping firewood and…
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