{"id":5393,"date":"2018-10-24T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2018-10-23T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:28:40","slug":"wristband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/2018\/10\/wristband\/","title":{"rendered":"Wristband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Simon - Wristband\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9lJHVpH5v8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today we use a song by Paul Simon as our text. If you don&#8217;t know &#8220;Wristband&#8221; go ahead and watch\/listen. We&#8217;ll wait for you to come back. (If you want, skip ahead to 18 seconds in.) But pay particular attention to the &#8220;message&#8221; verse about 2\/3 of the way through.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The riots started slowly with the homeless and the lowly<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Then they spread into the heartland towns that never get a wristband<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kids that can&#8217;t afford the cool brand whose anger is a short-hand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For you&#8217;ll never get a wristband and if you don&#8217;t have a wristband then you can&#8217;t get through the door<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t think I need to add too much to this. For much of the population of the U.S., the nonprofit arts industry is at the epicenter of a world of wristbands. To them, if any of us don&#8217;t have a wristband for access to whatever it is we want, we know where and how to get one . . . easily. You may disagree. But it&#8217;s the image many people conjure up when they think of the work we present, when they think of it at all, and relatively speaking\u00a0<em>they are not wrong<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No wonder it can be difficult to gain their attention, much less their trust. But gain it we must. For the sake of our industry&#8217;s future and, I think we would all argue, for the well-being of our communities.<\/p>\n<p>Engage!<\/p>\n<p>Doug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many see the nonprofit arts industry as being part of the world of society&#8217;s gatekeepers. No wonder gaining attention and trust is difficult. But gain it we must. 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