The creation and application of a multimedia digital library to support learning and Eeaching in the performing arts is described. PATRON (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online) delivers audio, video, music scores, dance notation, and theater scripts to the desktop via an innovative Web-based interface. Digital objects are linked subjectively by users in profiles with different formats and ...

The UCLA Academic Senate has completed its review of the UCPB Paper on Differential Fees and Nonresident Tuition. The proposal has been reviewed by our Council on Planning and Budget (CPB), Graduate Council, Undergraduate Council, Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools, and numerous Faculty Executive Committees (School of Arts and Architecture, School of Theater, Film,...

abstract this paper takes an overall look at the economy of arts and studies the relation between economy and the production of theater by considering the economic and cultural principles and approaches governing today’s society of iran. the main objective of this study is to study the adverse conditions of iranian theater and the inferior status of this cultural product in iran. in scientific ...

The Earth Theater at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Carnegie MNH) in Pittsburgh is an all-digital partial dome display, an immersive theater. Our current offerings include an Egyptian temple, a virtual dinosaur exhibit, a Seneca Village, and a simulated Ant Mound. Each one is a three-dimensional virtual world, which a docent can navigate at will while providing a guided tour. Each virt...

In advance of the White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) in 1981, 1995, and 2005, the arts and aging communities held mini-conferences to ensure that arts, culture, and livability were part of larger public policy discussions. This article takes a historical look at recommendations from the 2005 WHCoA Mini-Conference on Creativity and Aging in America, including arts in health care, lifelong l...