Christmas Wishes for and from the Columbia Arts Community, Part II

(This is a continuation of a blog posted on Christmas Eve — please start your reading here, and then join this blog post in progress.)

 

 

Poet and Educator, Cassie Premo Steele

from Cassie Premo Steele

An inner sense of validation of one’s self, spirit, health, and creativity. We no longer need to look outside ourselves to know that we, ourselves, and our work are valid. We can be who we truly are and create from that shining place.

Musician Noah Brock

from  Noah Brock

Santa should bring the arts community the power to stand together to remove the confederate flag. The arts community should resolve to do the aforementioned so that artists and performers we enjoy and love will be more willing to play in Columbia. IT’S 2012! LET US GET IT DOWN THIS YEAR!

 

Visual Artist Susan Lenz (as Ophelia)

from Susan Lenz

I’d love for Santa to bring an arts calendar to Columbia … something easy to navigate, used by all individual artists and organizations … on a permanent Internet site (not just on Facebook) … updated regularly … better looking and more complete than “welcome to the weekend” … and with images. Maybe Jeffrey can be Santa again … or at least be part of the present … with the rest of the gift being the funding that would make it all possible!

 

Arts Maven Coralee Harris

from Coralee Harris

Access to Bill Gates checking account so we can fund the myriad of projects that currently exist only in the minds of our talented artists. . .and in the absence of that, we probably need to do more classes on grant writing for the artists and performers so they can have a better shot at getting more funding.

 

Ballet dancer Robert Michalski

from Robert Michalski

I want Santa to bring the Columbia arts community inspiration and financial success!

 

 

Tracie Broom, Arts Supporter & Partner Flock & Rally

from Tracie Broom

For the young orgs, funding for paid staff and infrastructure would be pretty fantastic. For everyone? A few more hardcore, dedicated super-volunteers who take the lead and get things done well. Those folks are like human gold.

 

 

Visual artist Bonnie Goldberg

from Bonnie Goldberg

I wish for Santa to bring a continued love of the arts to a community already filled with curiosity, creativity, and love and support for one another where we will continue to gather and grow and make our Columbia one of the premiere art destinations in the world….happy holidays, Columbia artists!

 

Look for New Year’s resolutions from Columbia artists and arts supporters coming soon. To add your own wish for the New Year, please comment below or send your resolution to

editor@jaspercolumbia.com

 

 

 

 

 

About Jasper

What Jasper Said is the blogging arm of Jasper – The Word on Columbia Arts, a new written-word oriented arts magazine that serves artists and arts lovers in the Columbia, SC area and its environs in four ways: Via Print Media – Jasper is a bi-monthly magazine, releasing in print six times per year in September, November, January, March, May & July, on the 15th of each month. Jasper covers the latest in theatre and dance, visual arts, literary arts, music, and film as well as arts events and happenings; Via Website – Jasper is an interactive website complete with a visual arts gallery, messages from Jasper, an arts events calendar that is updated several times daily, bite-sized stories on arts events, guest editorials, local music, dance & theatre videos, community surveys, and more; Via Blog – What Jasper Said -- you're reading this now -- is a daily blog featuring a rotating schedule of bloggers from the Jasper staff as well as guest bloggers from throughout the arts community; Via Twitter – Jasper Advises is a method of updating the arts community on arts events, as they happen, with more than a half dozen active tweeters who live, work, and play inside the arts community everyday ~ Jasper Advises keeps the arts community abreast of what not to miss, what is happening when it is happening, and where to be to experience it first hand.
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2 Responses to Christmas Wishes for and from the Columbia Arts Community, Part II

  1. I’m wishing Haley were only a comet and would quickly pass out out of site.

  2. Tracie says:

    It’s a work in progress, but we’d like for our Flock and Rally arts calendar to be a helpful resource. We add to it as events come up on our radar. Debi started it a few years ago as a resource for friends and family, but as it grows we hope it can be a contribution to the cultural calendars here in Columbia!

    http://www.flockandrally.com/p/columbia-sc-arts-theater-entertainment.html

    p.s. Honored to be part of this piece and this discussion!

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