Songs for the Struggling Artist
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Was the Residency Productive?
Songs for the Struggling Artist
09/12/23 • 19 min
In the past, I’ve made my own residencies – with the assistance of my friends’ generosity of space. These self-styled residencies have always been highly focused and productive dives into a project. But this time, at my first official residency (i.e. not one I made up) I found something quite different than the ones I invented.
Funnily enough, I found this group residency not nearly as productive as ones I’ve done on my own. What with so many activities and long leisurely meals and field trips and lectures and presentations, our days were so jam packed I could barely squeeze my daily writing practice in, much less dive deeper. There was so much stimulation, so many interesting people, so much to respond to, I found it difficult to drop into the kind of quiet I need to make words into something significant. You might think this trip, this residency, had been a failure if you were measuring by productivity but it occurs to me that residencies like this one may be for something else.
To keep reading Was the Residency Productive, visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 367
Song: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Image by Emily Rainbow Davis
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Emily Rainbow Davis
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The Answer Is Magnets
Songs for the Struggling Artist
07/25/23 • 15 min
Before bed, I was reading the third book in V. E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy. I had a hard time putting it down as our two heroes were in a very tight spot, battling a killer magician creature that could dissipate itself. How were they going to get out of this mess? And, maybe more to the point, how was the writer going to get them out?
It took me a while to get to sleep as I was turning over the problem but eventually I began to dream and I woke myself up multiple times in the night, trying to will myself to remember the following sentence: The Answer Is Magnets. I’d discovered that particles of this magician creature could be drawn out of things like bowls of soup, with magnets. This creature was metallic in some way, I guess. I loved the elegance of a simple scientific kind of “magic” being the solution to this giant thorny problem.
To read more of The Answer Is Magnets, visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 360
Song: Magnet
Image by Andreas_Schur via Pixabay
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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"I Don't Do Zoom"
Songs for the Struggling Artist
05/14/24 • 19 min
A friend of mine has developed a show to be performed on Zoom. It’s an innovative concept and she’s doing that innovating in a form where people don’t necessarily expect to see innovation. She asked someone to attend this show and they said, “I don’t do Zoom,” which understandably got under my friend’s skin a little bit. It’s a little like someone saying they don’t go to the theatre when you give them a postcard for your show in a theatre.
To keep reading "I Don't Do Zoom" visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 398
Song: Video Killed the Radio Star
Image by Vinicius "amnx" Amano via Unsplash
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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It Is So Much Easier to Not Make Things
Songs for the Struggling Artist
02/20/24 • 14 min
It’s December. I’m back to putting on a show. I’m doing all the things you have to do to make a show happen. I’m getting a team together. I’m casting actors. I’m writing a press release. I’m crafting a marketing strategy. And at a every inflection point, I think, “Golly this is hard.” I think, “Why did I get myself into this?” And at every turn in the road, I think, “Wouldn’t it be easier to just not?” At every mile marker I feel sure I’ve made an irreversible mistake and failure is inevitable.
The fact is, it WOULD be easier to just not. It’s always easier to not do than to do. Always! (Well, almost always.) It would be nice if the arc of the universe bent toward justice but it seems more accurately to bend toward inertia. It is really quite remarkable anyone makes anything at all! I have renewed admiration for anyone who ever had an idea and then DID it. It is so much easier to have an idea and then just sit around hoping something will happen with it. That is what most people do. And the reason that is what most people do is because it is incredibly much easier.
To keep reading It Is So Much Easier to Not Make Things visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 387
Song: Easy
Image by Nadim Merrikh via Unsplash
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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Joining the Under the Radar Mourners
Songs for the Struggling Artist
08/01/23 • 18 min
My friend and I enjoy coming up with more accurate names for performing arts festivals here in NYC. You like the Next Wave Festival at BAM? Me too! We call it the Previous Wave, though, because almost everything in it hit its stride 30 to 40 years ago. Which is not to say it’s not good! Pina Bausch’s company still performs her work with integrity and style. But Pina Bausch died 14 years ago and the last time she was a new up and coming artist was around about 40 or 50 years ago.
Now everyone’s talking about the Under the Radar Festival recently, due to its being canceled, either permanently or temporarily. My friend and I used to call it the Directly in Line with the Radar Festival due to its shows mostly being works and companies already receiving a fair amount of attention, often European. That is, directly in line with the radar if you happen to have a radar that detects weirdo performing arts. Most of NYC’s Indie Arts scene could be standing directly in front of the Public Theater (home of Under the Radar or UTR) waving our arms and shouting, “Hey Radar! Run that radar this way, would you?” But somehow almost everyone I know was under Under the Radar’s radar.
To keep reading Joining the Under the Radar Mourners, visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 361
Song: Under the Radar
Image: Portrait of me by Christopher Cartmill
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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More Empress Elisabeth Rage Content (Or, Yes, I Watched Corsage)
Songs for the Struggling Artist
11/07/23 • 20 min
After reading a bit about the history of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (because of questions that came up after watching The Empress), I learned of another Empress Elisabeth (AKA Sisi) project in the pipeline. The film, Corsage, was reported to look at the darker side of the empress, dealing with her fatphobia, her tightlacing and obsession with her extremely long hair. After the overly romantic fantasy version of this woman in The Empress, I was ready for a thornier Sisi.
I thought this new film might be a more historically accurate version of events because of the inclusion of these less attractive aspects of her personality but as I watched it, I didn’t need to read more history to notice it was just as made-up as The Empress, if not more. The thing about The Empress was it was clear to me why they made up the fictions that they did. A love story between relative equals is a lot more attractive than the Emperor marrying a young teenage girl. It is a beautiful fantasy to imagine an empress wanting to help the poor so much she would give a factory urchin her shoes. I actually understand these impulses, even though they irked me.
To keep reading More Empress Elisabeth Rage Content (Or, Yes, I Watched Corsage) visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
Song: Landslide
Image of Empress Elisabeth by Franz Xaver Winterhalter via Wikicommons.
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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Are They Trying to Go Out of Business?
Songs for the Struggling Artist
04/02/24 • 17 min
A while back, I wrote about how they started locking up the toothpaste at my chain pharmacy/drugstore. Since then the drugstore has only expanded their lock-up program. Now, they lock up soap and deodorant and vitamins and eye drops and much more. There were a lot of news stories about this; These big drug stores (CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc) were claiming that there was a massive theft problem at their stores and they needed help to fix it.
But then, those stories were debunked. Not only has theft not gone up, it has, in fact, gone down. It turns out that these big drug stores are attempting to make more money by getting governments to pay for their security – because of all this CRIME that’s increasing. This has worked for them. Here In New York, our governor just launched an initiative that would give these places a tax break and provide extra security for them.
To keep reading Are They Trying to Go Out of Business? visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 392
Song: Bright Future in Sales
Image: my zines, photographed by me
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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Emily Is Fun
Songs for the Struggling Artist
09/04/23 • 14 min
You might be surprised to learn this if you only know me through the blog (or podcast) but once upon a time, I could be counted on to create a bubble of good time around me. It’s one of the reasons it’s not a terrible idea to invite me to your party. (Remember when I asked you to invite me to your party a few years ago? Back in the before times?) I may tend toward rage, fury and righteous indignation here on the blog but out in the world, I’m generally a reasonably nice and pleasant lady to be around. Having been isolated for so long (even before the pandemic, due to the migraines) I sort of forgot what my own personality could be like.
To read more of Emily Is Fun visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 366
Song: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Image by Emily Rainbow Davis from Mudhouse Agios Ioannis Crete
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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Writers Aren't Magic
Songs for the Struggling Artist
10/17/23 • 19 min
A writer of my acquaintance recently had an op-ed published in the Washington Post about theatre and what should be done about the death spiral it seems to be in. In the piece, she proposed some ways to fix some of the problems the field has found itself in. She named the difficulties, the history and offered a solution.
In watching the response to the article roll in, I was struck by how those who were opposed to her ideas seemed to think the proposal was a plan that was about to be put into place. They seemed to think this was a thing that was about to happen. (One thing she suggested was to give funding for big arts institutions directly to artists instead.) There were cries for the loss of these institutions, for the loss of jobs, for the impossibility of artists taking responsibility for their own budgets. It seemed like they thought this writer was a wizard and was giving notice of what she was about to do with her magic wand. They seemed to attribute great powers to this writer, to imagine she could, with a series of words in a major newspaper, transform the whole of American Theatre, whether the American Theatre wanted it or not.
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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The Mysterious Disappearance of My Local Arts Council
Songs for the Struggling Artist
09/25/23 • 16 min
Because my play is about Cretan history and the neighborhood I live in is full of Cretans (and other Greeks), I figured I should apply to my local arts council for some hyper local funding. That is, New York State or New York City funding would be too broad, I would need Queens funding. So I went to the Queens Council on the Arts’ website and all that was there was a little box for putting in a password. There was no website there or anywhere. I went to their NYC gov page and it led to several defunct social media pages. Was the Queens Council on the Arts no longer operational? I felt like I should have heard something if this were the case. Isn’t this news?
To keep reading The Mysterious Disappearance of My Local Arts Council visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 369
Song: Take the Money and Run
Image of QCA from Spectrum News
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As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
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How many episodes does Songs for the Struggling Artist have?
Songs for the Struggling Artist currently has 433 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Podcasts and Arts.
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The episode title 'Writing Experience' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Songs for the Struggling Artist is 17 minutes.
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The first episode of Songs for the Struggling Artist was released on Apr 4, 2016.
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