First things first: you can contact Sheryl Ramer, the author of this blog, at non.cultured@gmail.com
»What is this blog about?
»What is culture (Hint: It’s way more than you may think)?
»Who writes this blog?
» … and why does she want to write about culture?
What is this blog about?
This blog is about culture — thinking about it and witnessing it and living it — with an emphasis on culture in New York City.
What is culture?
According to the author of this blog, culture is …
Everything.
Yes, there’s highbrow culture and lowbrow culture, despicable culture and brilliant culture (this has been a nod to the always-entertaining Approval Matrix from New York Magazine)
But, at least at www.noncultured.com, culture is a category of infinite proportions.
So, “culture” includes ballet and opera and theater and independent movies, but it also includes celebrity gossip and football games and magic shows and clown shows and great big blockbusters.
But not only that.
Culture includes people-watching and business-watching and nature-watching.
It includes philosophy and psychobiology and neurology.
This blog will be about all those types of culture, plus how they influence each other, how they break apart and come together again …
Curious? I hope so.
Who writes this blog?
I do! I’m Sheryl. I live in, and love, Manhattan. In August of 2006, I founded Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup to experience all the city has to offer and to meet a few people. It has since mushroomed into a group of over 2,000 members. We attend various events — theater, museums, baseball games, walking tours, and more — together in groups of 20-60 people, and then eat out afterwards.
In 2008, I left a career as a librarian and started working at Art Meets Commerce, which produces and markets theater, as well as events, including Nightmare: New York’s Most Horrifying Haunted House.
… and why does she want to write about culture?
Well, if culture was a sport, I’d be the ultimate spectator, with team colors painted on my face, screaming and doing the wave. I’d get all my friends to go to all the games — and complete strangers too.
I’d also often ask who all the players were and what they were doing.
In other words, I take great joy in what most people consider culture. I attend theater, museums, dance performances, historical homes, walking tours and more at least once per week, but I have no formal education in any of it. I read health studies and business journals and the arts and entertainment section and the local news and marketing journals, but many times I don’t make it past the headlines.
I skate the surface of culture, and learn a little bit about this and a little bit about that …
And that’s exactly how I like it.