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Seven ways to support your local artists
As you're all no doubt aware, the coronavirus pandemic has had a far reaching socio-economic impact on our economy, no more so than our artists and entertainers. In these past two weeks, we've lost 150 million dollars. I'll give you a moment to take that in. As teaching artist and a sole trader myself, I myself have suffered a significant financial loss, but I still have my drama facilitator job with the education department to keep me afloat. However, a lot of artists, and most artists, aren't that fortunate. Consequently, I've created this article to raise awareness on how you, reading this, can help support us; your local artists. Most of these examples will be Australia/Brisbane based, as that's where I'm located, but I'm sure you can find examples from wherever you are in the world to go in its place.
By Virag Dombay6 years ago in Motivation
An Open Letter to 16-Year-Old Me
Dear 16-year-old me, I know you are really into those posts that say "THESE are the best years of my life?" but little do you know that when you become a part of the 20-somethings, you will remember this year over everything else.
By Julia Plunkett6 years ago in Motivation
Coronavirus - An Opportunity to Self Reflect?
For the first time in a very loooong time, I am sitting quietly, alone, in my condo (that comes with a mortgage payment I now can't afford), in a state of desperation as a bar/lounge owner that is now shut down in the hopes of flattening the curve of the rate of infection of the brand new Coronavirus. A cascade of panic grips me, and I am going down the rabbit hole of OMFG, how am I going to pay the mountain of bills that had already piled up? I was already skating on thin financial ice, and this... This is going to push me over the edge to insolvency. And my beloved staff...How can I help them get through this? Why wasn't I smarter about these things? Didn't I do this for a living in my prior life? Where did all my financial skills go?? Why didn't I save more, why did I run for office, why did I buy the condo? Why why why? So much guilt and SMH moments, so many should haves and could haves... I've been torturing myself since the shutdown and we are only two days into the ban. There is three more weeks to go. Three weeks is a long time for a business with very small margins to get through. And that's if the virus is contained after these three weeks...
By Tufti the Empress6 years ago in Motivation
don't be afraid to be you
Maybe the world lock down can have its positive as well, maybe the all new you can start now. You have promised yourself to become a new and improved version, why not now. Learn new things, listen to new things and watch new things. Find out your hidden talents while you have the time. Don't like someone or something because everyone else seems too, find out yourself.
By ASHLEY SMITH6 years ago in Motivation
Nothing To Lose
Aren't we constantly changing? Aren’t we constantly discovering and unearthing new ways and channels and processes of doing things and living our very lives? Sometimes we don't even realise how much we have changed until events in our lives begin to reveal to us the progress... or decline that we have made and the reality sets in. Nothing remains the same forever and this is perhaps the most underrated aspect of our existence as human beings.
By Sparkle6 years ago in Motivation
Self-Isolation? Completed it mate!
You're probably thinking: self-isolation is new government advice, how can she be a pro? Alas, my friend, I have known the ways of the house hobbit long before now. I am a fully fledged member of the 'at risk' category. Hello, hi, nice to meet you. Although i am twenty-three and seemingly fit & able to string a sentence together without spouting nonsense about immigration or offering you a Werther's Originals, I am in fact, at risk. I suffer with a list of chronic conditions about the length of my arm that are all, unfortunately for me, invisible (though I could show you the bruises from recent blood tests).
By Maisie Ramsay Waite6 years ago in Motivation
Down The Rabbit Hole...
I have seen all of this coming. I have had dreams of some kind of apocalypse for over 2 decades. The how, where, why and visuals were always different. The hauntings "picking up", things on the "other" side tried and tried to warn people (only to be accused of being evil), the fires in Australia, the floods in Australia, the tornadoes ramping up, the Coronavirus... All of it. I started journaling at the beginning of this year. I can't logically tell you why but I knew I needed to start writing down what was going on and what I was "seeing". All of the apocalypse dreams I have had, are all happening at the same time, in sequence. I have been dreaming non-stop since about August. In September, they really ramped up. I have been warning people since 2016 that "shifts" were coming. Not the end of the planet but shifts. Changes. Some are not going to make it. You don't have to be "religious" (which I am FAR from), to believe in some sort of apocalypse. This isn't about global warming either or vaccines. This is about things people refuse to acknowledge, that exist. I am now really starting to understand why I have gone through all the things I have dealt with in life. It made me a survivor. It taught me discernment about the people I surround myself with. It taught me when to use my empathy and when to shut it off, to save myself. It taught me how to hide, how to hunt, what I want out of life, how to make the best out of any situation. Do I care that people are dying from the things that are going on? Well yes. I care because people didn't listen. I care because I tried to warn people. I care because people believe religion will save them when all they had to do was believe in themselves. I'm not sad, just severely disappointed. No one listened. I do know a whole new world will come out of this and I am looking forward to it. This world has needed a shift for a long while. I am thankful I can hear and see things I deal with.
By LilithV6 years ago in Motivation
We Had Fun!!
At this moment, Right now, as I write this, we live in a completely shaken up world. A world that is overtaken by fear, that is wretched with panic, and that is drowning in a sea of depression. This world as I write is full those who are severely angry, those who have had the complete 💩💩 scared out of them, and those who are constantly speaking, yet saying absolutely nothing..
By Erik DeSean Barrett6 years ago in Motivation
TP The Pandemic
Although this thought has been on my mind for several days, it is the first time I have sat down to write. Writing has a way of forcing the feelings you don’t want seen recorded for everyone to see; it stains the paper with the ink of your confessions. I thought a lot about how I wanted to present this. Would it be better read in a clinical manner, such as a journalist entry with facts and dates? Or rather a poem with literary figures and emotions paving the way for understanding. Maybe a fictional short story would better encompass it all. Whatever the writing style, you can figure it out. All I know is what I think. What I think, in the light of recent events, maybe controversial and therefore unpopular but it is my opinion.
By Sofya Maxnide6 years ago in Motivation
