It's Time To Rebuild the Commonwealth's Cultural Future
Senator Kennedy (D-Lowell), Co-Chair of the Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development Committee recently filed S. 2246 An Act to Rebuild the Commonwealth’s Cultural Future which would create a $200 million stabilization fund for the state’s cultural sector. The money for the fund would be allocated from any federal dollars Massachusetts receives this year for COVID-19 recovery efforts.
The necessary public health closures of arts and cultural spaces has been disastrous to the entire cultural sector.
- Since March 2020 and the necessary public health closures of arts and cultural venues in Massachusetts, cultural nonprofit organizations reported $483 million in pandemic-related losses.
- Individual creative workers in Massachusetts lost over $20 million during that same time.
- Nationally, independent live venues reported nearly $9 billion in lost revenue.
We know the arts and cultural sector will be among the last to fully reopen and it will take audiences some time to return at pre-pandemic levels.
Without bold, comprehensive public funding to stabilize the cultural sector through full reopening, Massachusetts will not have the vibrant arts and cultural community we count on as an economic engine and community connector.
It's time to call on our State legislators to protect Massachusetts' cultural future and by sponsoring S. 2246.
Take a moment to email your legislators today.
It's Time To Rebuild the Commonwealth's Cultural Future
Senator Kennedy (D-Lowell), Co-Chair of the Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development Committee recently filed S. 2246 An Act to Rebuild the Commonwealth’s Cultural Future which would create a $200 million stabilization fund for the state’s cultural sector. The money for the fund would be allocated from any federal dollars Massachusetts receives this year for COVID-19 recovery efforts.
The necessary public health closures of arts and cultural spaces has been disastrous to the entire cultural sector.
- Since March 2020 and the necessary public health closures of arts and cultural venues in Massachusetts, cultural nonprofit organizations reported $483 million in pandemic-related losses.
- Individual creative workers in Massachusetts lost over $20 million during that same time.
- Nationally, independent live venues reported nearly $9 billion in lost revenue.
We know the arts and cultural sector will be among the last to fully reopen and it will take audiences some time to return at pre-pandemic levels.
Without bold, comprehensive public funding to stabilize the cultural sector through full reopening, Massachusetts will not have the vibrant arts and cultural community we count on as an economic engine and community connector.
It's time to call on our State legislators to protect Massachusetts' cultural future and by sponsoring S. 2246.
Take a moment to email your legislators today.