Posts by Josh Stuyvesant

OneBeat is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, organized by Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation.

Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding platform for filmmakers that focuses on the fair trade between filmmaker and audience.

While neck-deep in planning 24 Hours of Art I reached out to Melissa Perales to hear how she helped organize the Torstraßen Festival in Berlin.

I got the impression that Laurence had hosted many others before me, as if it were a weekly pleasure of his to provide wisdom to the starry-eyed wannabes.

Festival planning involves more moving parts than an orgy on a merry-go-round. Here’s how to build a team and keep all those parts lubed.

I talked with Skye about craft beers and the ways a good pub can cultivate arts and community. Then I had breakfast.

Each of us should be a marketer first and an artist second if we want to be successful.

“Do you have a dentist?” my filmmaker friend James Glover asks. “Your dentist has money, why don’t you ask him for some?” Once you have the money, getting everyone else is easy.

I talked with screenwriter Jeremey E. Kinter about what zombie movies, television and video games are doing to the world of screenwriting.

I recognize my side job as a safety net. And I’m a real bitch when I’m hungry.

Step away and build a birdhouse, and your story will be suddenly discernible. The birds will appreciate it too.