Westfield News Group ArtsBeat for 5/9/18

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat for 5/9/18. Patti Cohenour headlines "You Are Here" at Goodspeed; new seasons at Sevenars and North Hall. https://thewestfieldnews.com/arts-beat-225/

Media Release: Berkshire Film and Media Collaborate Networking Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 2, 2018

Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative Hosts

Spring Networking Event for Film, Media and Gaming Professionals

in Greenfield on Tuesday, May 8th

The Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative (BFMC) is hosting a spring networking event for professionals in the film, media and gaming industries on Tuesday, May 8^th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Wheelhouse in Greenfield (downstairs at the Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center, 289 Main Street). Held quarterly throughout the region, these industry get-togethers allow local artists and technicians to meet each other and learn about business opportunities in western Massachusetts.

Tours of the upstairs Greenspace CoWork space will also take place during the event.

Admission is free although contributions are welcome at the door. There will be hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Please RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bfmc-spring-networking-event-tickets-45538945211

“BFMC is dedicated to creating jobs and growing the film, media and gaming industries in western MA,” says Diane Pearlman, Executive Director of BFMC. “It’s exciting to see people meet other creatives from down the street or the next town. New business relationships are always sparked.”

The event is generously sponsored by Limelight Productions and the Economic Development Council of Western MA.

The Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative creates educational, workforce and production opportunities in the film and media industry as an economic initiative for western Massachusetts. BFMC is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information go to: www.berkshirefilm.org or call 413.528.4223.

Calendar Listings: Jeanne Yocum's WMass Book Tour

Dateline: May 3, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CALENDAR LISTINGS

BOOK TOUR

Jeanne Yocum, author of The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss

Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 5:30PM

Presentation: The Thrills (and Chills) of Self-Employment:

Q&A, Booksigning

AmherstWorks

11 Amity Street

Amherst, MA 01002

413-461-0665

https://amherstworks.io/

Free Admission

Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 1PM

Reading, Q&A, Booksigning

Blue Umbrella Books

2 Main Street

Westfield, MA 01085

413-579-5383

http://www.blueumbrellabooks.com/

Free Admission

About The Book

The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss alerts you to the challenges involved in being your own boss and provides proven strategies for surmounting these obstacles to achieve success. You’ll also learn what you need to put in place before taking the leap to being your own boss to help assure your success. 

Self-employment offers great personal freedoms and rewards, but the road can curve or travel uphill at times. In this book, you’ll find proven solutions for obstacles that inevitably will cross your path, including unreasonable client demands, slow payers, unexpected client defections, hectic daily schedules, health and financial planning, and isolation that can accompany working on your own

Paperback: 216 pages

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (April 8, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1538108712

ISBN-13: 978-1538108710

For book details: https://www.succeedinginsmallbusiness.com/the-self-employment-survival-guide/

About Author Jeanne Yocum

For nearly 30 years, Jeanne Yocum has been self-employed as a public relations consultant and ghostwriter. Jeanne has worked with clients in a wide variety of fields, including commercial and residential real estate, dot-coms, retailing, higher education, health care, financial and legal services, manufacturing, IT analysis, management consulting, architecture, and banking. Her award-winning  blog,Succeeding in Small Business, offers advice to small business owners and solopreneurs. 

Jeanne’s published works include The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss, and two co-authored books, New Product Launch: 10 Proven Strategies, published in 2004, and Ban the Humorous Bazooka [and Avoid Other Roadblocks and Speed Bumps Along the Innovation Highway], published in 2001. She also has ghostwritten books on open innovation, strategic partnerships, and leading fast-growth companies.

A Pennsylvania native, Jeanne holds a B.A. in Journalism from Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Boston University. After spending most of her career in Greater Boston and in Western Massachusetts, she now lives in Durham, NC.

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Westfield News Group Review: The Will Rogers Follies at Goodspeed

Westfield News Group Review of "The Will Rogers Follies" at Goodspeed. A star turn by David M. Lutken, dazzling choreography by Kelli Barclay, and Ilona Somogyi's sumptuous costumes make this award-winning musical a welcome start to Goodspeed's season and the late arrival of Spring. https://thewestfieldnews.com/review-goodspeed-stages-the-will-rogers-follies/

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 5/2/18

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 5/2/18: Shakespeare and Company announces casting; Longmeadow Chamber Music Society concert, WAM Theatre's Fresh Takes Series, and other arts news for WMass and N.CT. https://thewestfieldnews.com/arts-beat-223/

News from Mark G Auerbach Public Relations / May 2018

We’re proud to share our clients’ activities.

Kevin Rhodes begins the month at The Vienna State Opera Ballet conducting performances of a program of ballets by George Balanchine, John Neumeier, and Jerome Robbins on May 3-5, before returning to the USA to conduct performances with Boston’s Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra on May 12, and Rachmaninoff programs with the Springfield Symphony on May 19, and the Traverse Symphony in MI on June 2. Then, it’s back to Vienna for ballet.  For details: http://kevinrhodesconductor.com/

Jeanne Yocum, publisher of the award-winning blog Succeeding in Small Business, released her new book, The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss, published by Rowman and Littlefield. I’m quoted in the book! Jeanne’s book tour continues on May 4 at Recyclique in Durham, NC and May 17 at the Durham Public Library. She’ll be the featured speaker at the South Shore Women’s Business Network on June 21 in Hingham, MA and at AmherstWorks in Amherst, MA, and she’ll appear at Blue Umbrella Books in Westfield, MA on June 23. And, the audio book has been released. For details: https://www.succeedinginsmallbusiness.com/the-self-employment-survival-guide/

The Capitol Steps perform every Friday and Saturday in the Amphitheater at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC. Metro Stop: Federal Triangle. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. They also perform throughout the year at theatres coast-to-coast. Look for them at Cranwell in the Berkshires this summer. from June 29-August 31. Their new CD, Make America Grin Again, comes out next month, and they'll have a new Politics Takes a Holiday radio special in July.. For details: http://capsteps.com/

And, we're pleased to welcome Benjamin Jacek onboard to help us part-time with social media. Ben has worked with us on two productions of The Big Broadcast! with The Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College. He's about to graduate from Minnechaug Regional High School, and will be a member of the University of Wyoming Class of 2022. 

More Shameless Self-Promotion

89.5fm/WSKB’s ArtsBeat Radio will return to airwaves weekly on Fridays at 8AM beginning on May 25. Chester Theatre’s Daniel Elihu Kramer, and Graham Rowat, star of Berkshire Theatre Group’s Church and State, join me. Meanwhile, the next program airs on Wednesday, May 16 at 9AM, I’ll be talking with North Hall Festival’s Peri Sossaman. Maestro Kevin Rhodes previews the 75th Springfield Symphony Orchestra season; actor James Barry from Berkshire Theatre Group and Chester Theatre, talks about his music. Tune in on 89.5fm/WSKB, on Comcast Ch.15 in Westfield, or streamed via www.wskb.org or www.westfieldtv.org

My ArtsBeat columns and theatre reviews for Westfield News Group, Succeeding in Small Business and Take Magazine are catalogued at Random Notes From a P.R. Guy: http://mgauerbach.blogspot.com/

Here’s counting down to summer.

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat 4/25/18

Westfield News Group ArtsBeat for 4/25/18. Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley added to Mahaiwe line-up; "The Tattooed Man Tells All" at Silverthorne Theatre and arts news for WMass and No.CT. https://thewestfieldnews.com/arts-beat-222/