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I hope things are going well for you, my friends. I wish you a happy October, a happy Halloween, and (for my fellow Canadians) a happy Thanksgiving.
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I'd like to apologize for those to whom I promised I'd be presenting in Halifax at the Interp Canada conference this week - it ain't gonna happen and I'm sorry. Things are chronically unpredictable in the freelance world and things have got a bit hairy for a couple of my projects at the moment. I'm staying home and getting things untangled.
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Is Your Halloween Program Off-Theme?
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Surely we can accomplish more with a valuable new audience than just jump out of a dark corner and go “boo.”
Are you planning a thematically vapid Halloween event? Are you busily training volunteers to jump out at people from behind half-closed doors? Are you dusting off your wacky grave stones and firing up your howling-and-cackling sound systems? And are you completely …
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Are you a champion of change?
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Sometimes you need to be subversive.
I do a lot of planning workshops, including a lot of small-group work with front-line staff and their immediate supervisors. I love the energy and creativity that flows from these groups. But one of my reservations in working with front line people is the risk of giving my participants high hopes and dreams for real organizational change, when I really …
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Quantifying Sparkle
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Defining Standards for Personal Interpretive Programs
I’ve had the opportunity, over the last few years, to do a great deal of traveling. I’m up to 54 countries and counting now, though my time in each has been tantalizingly brief. And as I travel, I manage to attend quite a few interpretive programs. I think it’s interesting to see the different …
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About Don Enright
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Don Enright has been an interpreter for forty years, and has no plans to quit. He is a successful independent interpretive planner and writer known for his thought-provoking blog, The Art of Visitor Experience at donenright.com. He writes and speaks passionately on the relevance of interpretation and how interpreters can evolve and adapt to a changing society. As a front-line …
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