Dear Arts Lovers,
A new year means new opportunities to learn, experience, and enjoy the arts. Let your New Year's resolution be a creative one! Consider making time to go see a live concert, watch a play, or visit an art museum. Or, take the chance to reconnect with your creative self by rekindling an old creative flame or discovering a new passion. A masterpiece can be as simple as a few notes, a couple of brushstrokes, a few lines of poetry, or a new cookie recipe. However you decide to nurture your creativity, may this new year be full of live arts experiences and your chance to be your best creative self! Bring creativity to your life every day, no matter how small.
Happy New Year from CommonTime!
Christine Matovich
Founder, CommonTime
The creative economy is worth approximately two trillion dollars. Do you feel like you’re getting your fair share?
CommonTime is partnering with FIIB, the Fortune Institute of International Business, to bring you The Art of Arts Entrepreneurship, a 10-week online seminar designed to give you the essential entrepreneurial skills, business acumen, and marketing strategies you need in your art career. We are hosting this seminar to address artists’ most pressing needs when it comes to selling your work and/or creative skills in the current creative economy.
This seminar is set to launch in February 2024 – stay tuned for more information!
Virtual Concert Halls is an arts organization that specializes in Live Internet TV production of music events, seasons, and shows, virtual and hybrid. Much like CommonTime, Virtual Concert Halls was born out of a need to keep the arts accessible even when physical performance venues were closed. Now, VCHS creates broad and unique opportunities for performers, teachers, managers, concert and educational organizations, and allows them to perform from any location! Virtual Concert Halls broadcasts daily music and education shows, live performances, discussions, competitions, and more, all for free! Tune in everyday at 12pm EST on CommonTime.
Jeff Levenberg is a versatile musician in western and non-western genres, classical and modern, and is currently a development manager for the Chamber Orchestra of New York. He has researched Arabic and Chinese literature in the Italian Renaissance at Harvard, performed classics on the guqin in Hong Kong, won a prize at an Infosys Hackathon on AI, and consulted for the U.N. Capital Development Fund. Jeff encourages study across cultures, methods, and time periods, with open minds. His own journey has taken him from Renaissance Italy to Modern China and India and then back to New York City, where he is keen to apply the traditional liberal arts to make an impact in tech and economics (if not also policy). If you haven’t dropped what you’ve been doing in your own art or teaching studio to, say, test your mind at an AI hackathon or something totally different in this day and age, then Jeff says give it a try!
Jeff is the course designer and instructor of The Art of Arts Entrepreneurship, a CommonTime seminar in collaboration with FIIB. Stay tuned for more information!