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.
Read MoreChristian Wolf reached out to Julie Baker the Executive Director for the Californians for the Arts organization to see if she could help answer some basic concerns regarding the arts during this time.
Read MoreWe're rounding up the best virtual gatherings worldwide, from concerts to lectures to fitness classes.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreAll the guidelines about how to reopen are overwhelming. András Szántó and Adrian Ellis have compiled the current wisdom in one place.
Read MoreRBHU is offering $30k worth of engineering services so artists can again create and help lift the human spirit. Any art piece that needs engineering services is eligible for this program.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAPAP 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.
Read MoreApplication process closes on Friday, June 5 at 5 p.m. Grant winners will be notified on Friday, June 12.
Read MoreRequest your members of Congress include substantial additional dedicated COVID-19 relief funding—to be administered by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Institute of Museum and Library Services—to help offset the losses of the nonprofit arts industry.
Read MoreSupporting intensive care, focused on those infected with the COVID-19 that require intensive medical care. For the time-being, CERF+ ‘s emergency relief grants related to Covid-19 will focus on those infected with the virus that require intensive medical care.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreAll professional musicians, regardless of their genre or instrument, can apply for themselves or a family member if they meet the qualifications listed.
Read MoreLA City Council unanimously approved two motions that repurpose arts fees paid by developers in support of now-canceled or planned cultural events as small-dollar grants to artists, arts organizations, and live performance spaces that have been negatively affected or threatened by the pandemic.
Read MoreAs municipal officials begin to allow small groups of people to gather in public even while the fight against COVID-19 continues, there is a tremendous need for guidance how small events and venues can reopen as safely as possible under these incredibly challenging circumstances.
Read MoreFacing an existential threat, hundreds of the most iconic independent rock clubs in America have banded together to do the unthinkable in an industry forged on pride, risk, ingenuity and imagination.
Last month, a coalition of club owners now numbering more than 1,600 -- the National Independent Venue Association -- hired top-shelf Capitol Hill lobbyists to petition Congress for financial assistance.
Read MoreDGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness
Read MoreHERE is a table that provides info on accessing CARES Act funds from the perspective of a nonprofit arts org, a governmental arts agency, a commercial arts company, a self-employed individual artist, and as a taxpayer. As of April 21, 2020, $5.2 billion in CARES Act funding has been received.
Read MoreIf you are a dramatist experiencing a medical emergency, please submit an application to both the Authors League Fund and the Dramatists Guild Foundation
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