It's Time To Rebuild the Commonwealth's Cultural Future
On Tuesday, September 28, the Joint Commitee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development held a hearing on S.2246 An Act to Rebuild the Commonwealth's Cultural Future, filed by Senator Kennedy (D-Lowell) and co-sponsored by 61 legislators.
The Commonwealth Cultural Futures Act would allocate a minimum of $200 million from federal recovery funding received by the Commonwealth for the arts and cultural community.
We need to remind our legislators that the allocating funds for the recovery, stabilization and growth of the arts and cultural sector is needed now.
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 support S. 2246. Take a moment to email and ask them to support arts and cultural sector's recovery today.
It's Time To Rebuild the Commonwealth's Cultural Future
On Tuesday, September 28, the Joint Commitee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development held a hearing on S.2246 An Act to Rebuild the Commonwealth's Cultural Future, filed by Senator Kennedy (D-Lowell) and co-sponsored by 61 legislators.
The Commonwealth Cultural Futures Act would allocate a minimum of $200 million from federal recovery funding received by the Commonwealth for the arts and cultural community.
We need to remind our legislators that the allocating funds for the recovery, stabilization and growth of the arts and cultural sector is needed now.
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 support S. 2246. Take a moment to email and ask them to support arts and cultural sector's recovery today.