Times of Acadiana - October 31, 2019 - Online Version
Out to Lunch Acadiana
with Aileen Bennett
Les Arts des Acadiens
July 3, 2019
OUT TO LUNCH finds creative business consultant Aileen Bennett conducting business Acadiana style: over lunch. Each week Aileen invites guests from Acadiana's business community to join her. Beyond the foundations of the Acadiana economy - oil, cuisine, music - there is a vast network of entrepreneurs, small businesses, and even some of the country's largest companies who call Acadiana home. Out to Lunch is the cafeteria of the wider Acadiana business community. You can also hear the show on KRVS 88.7FM.
Here’s a question for you. What is Art?
There are various possible answers. From the personal and pragmatic, “I know it when I see it,” to the wide-ranging and ideological, “Anything that holds up a mirror to society.”
When we talk about art on a show that is about business, I can tell you one thing that art is not. It’s not something you go into to get rich. It’s hard to imagine any other human endeavor that we regard as essential to our well-being and happiness, being as openly unrewarded. Could you even imagine the National Football League as being a non-profit? It would be laughable. But it’s totally acceptable for arts institutions to be un-funded, receive no special tax-credit status, and to make no money. That’s why both of Aileen's guests on this edition of out to Lunch Acadaiana have businesses that are blatantly, openly, legally, and factually, “non-profit.
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July 3, 2019
OUT TO LUNCH finds creative business consultant Aileen Bennett conducting business Acadiana style: over lunch. Each week Aileen invites guests from Acadiana's business community to join her. Beyond the foundations of the Acadiana economy - oil, cuisine, music - there is a vast network of entrepreneurs, small businesses, and even some of the country's largest companies who call Acadiana home. Out to Lunch is the cafeteria of the wider Acadiana business community. You can also hear the show on KRVS 88.7FM.
Here’s a question for you. What is Art?
There are various possible answers. From the personal and pragmatic, “I know it when I see it,” to the wide-ranging and ideological, “Anything that holds up a mirror to society.”
When we talk about art on a show that is about business, I can tell you one thing that art is not. It’s not something you go into to get rich. It’s hard to imagine any other human endeavor that we regard as essential to our well-being and happiness, being as openly unrewarded. Could you even imagine the National Football League as being a non-profit? It would be laughable. But it’s totally acceptable for arts institutions to be un-funded, receive no special tax-credit status, and to make no money. That’s why both of Aileen's guests on this edition of out to Lunch Acadaiana have businesses that are blatantly, openly, legally, and factually, “non-profit.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Listen to our interview on the KVRS J’Savais Pas show
with Esther Tyree New Years Day
with Esther Tyree New Years Day
Creating Art at Louisiana Folk Roots Music Camp held at Vermilionville on June 11, 2018
We had a blast and the kids were so creative! Check out the video below.
We had the great honor of being interviewed by Judith Meriwether on KVRS June 6, 2018
for the Apres Midi Afternoon Classics
Click here to listen!
for the Apres Midi Afternoon Classics
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