COVID-19 GUIDANCE: Outdoor Seated Live Events and Performances
Effective April 1, 2021
This guidance is designed to address sectors and activities opening statewide. However, local health officers may implement more stringent rules tailored to local epidemiological conditions, so employers should also confirm relevant local opening policies
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Shuttered Venue Operators Grants Frequently Asked Questions | March 12, 2021
Following are answers as of March 12, 2021 (those marked with * are new and/or updated from the March 5, 2021, version), to frequently asked questions about the SVOG program. These will be updated as new information comes available and additional program details are finalized.
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Applications Are Open for Up & Running California: A New eBay Program Offering Free eCommerce Training for Small Businesses
Participants will enjoy full access to eBay Seller School, eBay’s interactive online learning platform. Seller School offers both beginner-level and more advanced courses to help all sellers accelerate and scale their eBay business, regardless of their time and experience on the platform.
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Save Our Stages Act — NIVA
We know you have many questions about the Save Our Stages Act and how it will be administered. […] Questions from NIVA members should be directed to implementation@nivassoc.org, but please read the summary of the act first, as it may answer many of your questions.
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Update on reopening guidelines: State announces gatherings for live musical, theatrical, and other artistic performances are permitted outdoors
California announces gatherings for live musical, theatrical, and other artistic performances are permitted outdoors (subject to guidance that is being prepared by CDPH).
All individuals living in the State of California are currently ordered to stay home or at their place of residence, except for permitted work, local shopping or other permitted errands, or as otherwise authorized (including in the Questions & Answers).
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Reopening Protocol for Drive-In Movie Theaters: Los Angeles County
Protocol expanded to address semi-permanent and temporary drive-in theaters with a section at the end specifically for these theaters. Live drive-in events (e.g. concerts, live performances are not allowed. Clarification provided regarding the provision of food. Individuals must remain in or on their vehicles. Convertible cars can lower their tops and viewers may sit on outside portions of their vehicle (e.g. the bed of a pick-up truck).
Outdoor live drive-in experiences such as musical concerts and performances are allowed under this protocol as long as there is also compliance with the protocol for Music, Television and Film Production.
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Guidance for Private Gatherings: California Department of Public Health
This guidance provides an updated plan for Californians to gather outside their household and replaces the prior gatherings guidance issued on September 12, 2020 and March 16, 2020. It applies to private gatherings, and all other gatherings not covered by existing sector guidance are prohibited. Gatherings are defined as social situations that bring together people from different households at the same time in a single space or place. […] Rules for Singing, Chanting, and Shouting at Outdoor Gatherings are defined.
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Blueprint for a Safer Economy
California has a blueprint for reducing COVID-19 in the state with revised criteria for loosening and tightening restrictions on activities.
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A Historical Trauma-informed Approach to COVID-19
As Indigenous people, we can realize, recognize, and respond to the effects of our trauma by practicing
Historical Trauma-Informed Care. This approach is rooted in safety, trust, peer support, collaboration, community voice, and resilience. Urban Indian Organizations can be part of healing communities by reflecting these values in actions and by building a better future for the next generations.
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Teaching Artists as Essential Workers: Respect, Collaboration, and Heft
Teaching artists are among the first responders in a crisis where access to realizing your creativity is too reliably predicted by income and address.
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InfoGraphic: Arts Facilitation During COVID-19
When people experience trauma or crisis there is an additional layer of vulnerability that arts facilitators are urged to consider. Choosing art-based activities, topics, and methods that are grounded in best-practices are crucially important. This infographic is an at-a-glance guide to help artists facilitate safe and effective arts experiences for participants during the time of COVID-19
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Studios, Guilds Release Guidelines To Resume Production
The Industry-Wide Labor Management Safety Committee Task Force's report is filled with ideas for health monitoring and testing: "Recommended options include electronic survey, manual screening and/or temperature spot-checks. Productions shall emphasize and reinforce to all cast and crew that working while sick with symptoms of COVID-19 is not permitted." The 22-page report also details how social distancing might work on a typically crowded film set.
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COVID-19 INDUSTRY GUIDANCE: Museums, Galleries, Zoos, and Aquariums
This document provides guidance for museums, galleries, botanical gardens, zoos, aquariums, and other similar spaces (referred to collectively as “museums”) to support a safe, clean environment for workers.
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Four Core Principles Needed to Support Safe and Healthy Theatre Productions
Actors’ Equity Association has consulted David Michaels, PhD, MPH to prepare a memo addressing the current situation and what is needed to begin the process of reopening theatrical productions. Once these four principles are met, extensive additional work will need to be done to further minimize risk of exposure.
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Masks? Antibody Testing? Big Update On What Will Make People Feel Safe Visiting (DATA)
For the last several weeks, we have been tracking changes in what people say will make them feel safe enough to return to museums and performing arts organizations again. The last update to this research was shared was on May 6th, 2020. IMPACTS has since re-deployed the questioning and there have been some major changes to inform strategies to make people feel safe upon reopening.
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How Should a Museum Reopen in a Post-COVID World? Here Is Everything You Need to Know to Do It Safely, According to Experts
All the guidelines about how to reopen are overwhelming. András Szántó and Adrian Ellis have compiled the current wisdom in one place.
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ESA Reopening Guide
The Event Safety Alliance Reopening Guide is the product of contributions from more than 300 professionals from all facets of the live event industry, from the smallest to largest producers and the many businesses that work to support them.
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Reopening Resources - Association of Performing Arts Professionals
APAP is monitoring the spread and impact of the Coronavirus on a daily basis and working with other field leadership organizations to gather information, share resources, and advocate for the field.
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Performing Arts Center Consortium Guide to Reopening Theatrical Venues
This document has been developed in consultation with leading medical professionals and legal counsel and after careful consideration of governmental and public health guidelines to provide information and recommendations to individual performing arts venues to guide them in their reopening processes. The specific plans and measures adopted by individual venues will vary based upon governmental guidelines and/or mandates and upon the unique requirements of each venue.
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25 top theater minds dream the future: What will the post-pandemic stage look like?
The theater will have to change to meet the challenges of a transformed world. While we’re mourning the loss of playgoing among the myriad other losses exacted by this pandemic, I’ve asked artists to imagine the future. How might we rethink basic structures (economic, architectural, aesthetic) in this period of forced reprieve? How might fresh vision transform crisis into opportunity?
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