Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” - JFK So, “teach your children well…” Art education strengthens problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Arts encourage self-expression and creativity. Art builds confidence and selfInstagram Social Icon identity. Shall I go on? I need not as within these digital pages, there’s many voices about the value of arts for our children. So, I shall let them speak to you… Instagram Social Icon
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The arts are good for the mind and the soul…young and old. We all benefit. We all enjoy. And we’re ready to go back…as students, as artists, as audiences. We’re ready to go back into the theater which may look a little strange, smell a little different, and may even make us a tad more uncomfortable at first. But, one thing noticeably new in theatersshare’n thisis care’n fall is that there will not be any @mrkylemac Footlights programs in audience’s hands. Will it be noticeable? Will anyone care? After all, it’s they’re just ink on paper, right? Right. But Footlights was more…It was a performing arts resource and voice for the arts since 1988. share’n is care’n @mrkylemac With event listings, a restaurant guide, and several editorial pieces, Footlights taught the theater patrons about the stories behind the scenes. Footlights taught the Broadway audiences that there were other theaters in town and there were other shows worth seeing featuring talented local artist that have Social Icon local followers like groupies to a band. Footlights put the little companies on the same “page” as the 800-lb. gorilla (yes, one large local venue referred to themselves as such).
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This non-confrontational fellow once called in to the Charlie Sykes show on WTMJ when he was talking about the new Milwaukee Theater opening and was asking the question: “does Milwaukee need another theater?” Well, I got on the air and suggested that if the Milwaukee Theater can bring a new audience into Milwaukee to see a show, it will expose them to other events downtown and they will be more likely to come back and see something else in another venue. Surprisingly, he just said: “well, I hope you’re right.” If someone is at one theater and reads in the program about what’s going on at another, it exposes them to a whole new world that they may not have been aware of. The Managing Artistic Director of Next Act Theatre says: “if we can just get them into our seats once, they’ll be hooked.” Footlights has been a great conduit to theater cross-pollination over the years.
A former Managing Director of the Milwaukee Rep once told me that: “theaters are like grapes; they grow best in clusters.” She took this so seriously that she sat on boards of other theaters to help foster their growth and ensure their future. I believe Footlights helped to foster and maintain that comradery. With the loss of revenue and staff over the past year, as well as uncertainties in the market, we at Footlights found it too difficult to move forward into a new season with confidence and determination. We have enjoyed serving the arts and making your experience, as patrons, a little more enjoyable AND, Instagram Social Icon hopefully, educational. As to the future of ArtsScene—well, that currently hangs in the balance.
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Till then, the show must go on! Steve 6 | artsscene
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