Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

These are the archives of Listen & Be Heard Weekly through April 26, 2008. Listen & Be Heard Network now publishes several different publications, each of which has their own archive going forward from April 2008.

The editorial contents Listen & Be Heard Weekly are protected by copyright. Copyright 2006, 2007, 2008 Listen & Be Heard. All rights reserved. The articles appearing in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the publishers.

The Mission of Listen & Be Heard Weekly.

Here in Vallejo, and in other cities surrounding us, we have a small and fragile performance circuit with great potential for growth. But everyone participating in the tremendous growth of our arts community will have to take matters into their own hands in order to reach out to that majority of people who still don’t know that a contemporary arts scene even exists here. That means getting out in the streets. That means putting flyers into peoples’ hands and talking to them one at a time. That means advertising in what local media exists, and creating a web page, and e-mail list and then still coming up with creative ways to get people’s attention and draw them into what you already know will be an enriching and empowering experience for them.

Listen & Be Heard Weekly is an example of taking matters into hand.

We don’t have to wait around for someone else to talk about us in a positive light. We started doing it for ourselves. And from the very beginning the idea was not only to do it for ourselves, but to provide a means for other artists, arts organizations, and small businesses to do it for themselves on a scale that they can afford.

That’s what it takes.