A quick, quick, superquick post on this New Year's Eve to congratulate ALL the Triangle theatres honored in the Independent's Best of Live Theatre 2009 List. So many honors for UNC grant initiatives and PlayMakers productions, go us! But we haven't swept it, which isn't a tarnish--there's so much good theatre in the area that competition is stiff ( Read more... )

This weekend, four students and two of my fellow faculty/staff and i all have traveled to the USITT Southeast Regional Conference, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

If the Commission Symposia are microcosm conferences divided into disciplines (like the creature-costume event i covered last month, sponsored by the Costume ( Read more... )

Today i want to talk about professional guilds and organizations which are of interest to costumers and crafts artisans ( Read more... )

First, the good news:

The New Zealand Hat and Hair Awards were just held on November 29th! The article has a photo of the winning entry, and the event's website has a lot of photos of the past two years' worth. What with this and the World of Wearable Art awards, NZ is certainly the place to be for wearable artwork! Amazing stuff ( Read more... )