Rush

Dear Reader, thank you for visiting ATA Blog!

You make it fun.

Hey, ATA is on Facebook!

And: It's the weekend. Let's go to Dia Beacon, or somewhere else entirely--like the Berkshires.

Also: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks

Plus: Walden by Henry David Thoreau

And, finally: Les chemins de l'amour - F. Poulenc

Yahoo!

Have you joined your peers and colleagues on Facebook or on the exclusively private ATA Members Yahoo Forum? If not, you should do so tout de suite because the ATA Members Yahoo Forum is free and valuable at the same time. There are over 900 ATA members registered, but it is private and exclusive nonetheless. A paradise of paradoxes. Come see.

Messages In today's ATA Digest #1284 include:

• An Advocate: Bill Irwin on artists and the recovery

• A Job Announcement: Dance teachers needed for Arts to Grow after-school program in Newark

• An Update: The NYSCA Budget From NYS Arts, Alliance of NYS Arts Organizations

You can read all about it there, but not here.

If you are a Professional Teaching Artist, you can now keep in touch with a growing professional community on Facebook and on Yahoo. That's revolutionary, useful and fun.

The Association of Teaching Artists supports professional Teaching Artists in all our roles and the organization will gratefully accept your contributions. Yes, ATA knows times are tough, so just give an amount that is meaningful and significant to you.

If that's $500? Fine.

If it's $50? Terrific.

If you give $5 that's amazing, because it means you care enough to give.

ATA is grateful to you and, no matter the amount, your gift will make a difference.

Thanks and have a good weekend!

You may leave a comment, send an email or take a dance break with George.

Upriver

Arts Alive is a terrific regional newsletter that presents cultural events and opportunities for and about artists in Columbia and Greene Counties in upstate New York. The Greene County Council on the Arts and the Columbia County Council on the Arts pool their resources to publish this excellent resource and you can download it on their website as a PDF.

Not only, but also: The Hudson Opera House is a multi-arts center that offers a year-round schedule of arts and cultural programming, community events, classes, exhibitions, and more. All of this takes place in a 19th century building that is being renovated to its former glory.

Meta: In 1609 Henry Hudson made his historic journey up the Mohegan River on an exploratory mission for the Dutch, which was bad news for the Iroquois and good news for the Hudson River School of Art.

Live From New York

It is the weekend.

We are on Facebook.

I am on Twitter.

If you want me to write about something, email me here.

Live it up!

Snow Day

Today is a snow day and William Kristol is no longer writing for the New York Times.

Two wonderful things, all at once.

We are on Facebook.

I am on Twitter.

Also: An insanely detailed panoramic view of the inauguration of President Barack Obama has been posted by photographer David Bergman. You can zoom in on individual faces in the crowd.

Gone, baby, gone!

We're on Facebook!

I'm on Twitter.

Have a warm weekend!