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#GetCountedNY by September 30 - Ways to Talk about the Census at Arts and Culture Programs
#GetCounted by September 30 - Ways to Talk about the Census at Arts and Culture Programs Dance/NYC is urging the New York City metropolitan dance community to complete the 2020 United States Census and be counted! There are less than 10 days to complete the census and thanks to #culturecounts there’s a nice script to talk about the Census at your virtual arts and culture programs: “This month…
Dance/NYC Announces Recipients of Second Round Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund for Dance Making Organizations
Dance/NYC is pleased to announce the 56 recipients of the second iteration of its Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund for Dance Making Organizations and Groups.…
Weekly Advocacy Alert, September 16: Take the Census!
Advocate for arts and culture. Find your representatives and tell them what you need:…
Testimony to City Council on Committee on General Welfare (Jointly with the Committee on Civil and Human Rights)
Submitted to the Committee on General Welfare (Jointly with the Committee on Civil and Human Rights) on September 15, 2020…
Advocacy Alert: Be an #ArtsHero & Census 2020
Be an #ArtsHero is an intersectional grassroots campaign comprised of Arts & Culture workers, Unions, and institutions in the United States pushing the Senate to allocate proportionate relief to the Arts & Culture sector of the American economy.…
#ArtistsAreNecessaryWorkers Series Recap
Dance/NYC #ArtistsAreNecessaryWorkers Conversations in Review New York – After 12 weeks, Dance/NYC closes the #ArtistsAreNecessaryWorkers Facebook Live Conversation Series. This has been one strand of the public campaign towards demanding the acknowledgement, representation and integration of dance and arts workers into the city’s future post-pandemic. Beginning on May 21, these conversations…
Dance/NYC State of the Organization & Summer Break
Dear Dance Community, Today, I write to you, our constituents, to reflect on lessons learned and to establish clear grounds for accountability to what we as an organization can promise in the months and years to come. These reflections come as we close the second year of a period of Dance/NYC’s leadership transition, which began on July 31, 2018 with Lane Harwell’s transition from the organization. I…
Weekly Advocacy Alert, August 12: Push for Federal Relief
Federal Relief still hasn’t arrived. Tell your representatives what you need: ACT for Arts Relief: Speak up for nonprofits. The Nonprofit Community Letter outlines urgent reforms to the CARES Act. Contact your representatives and ask them to include nonprofits in the final bill. The Save Our Stages Act is still in the Senate. The bill has been expanded to include…
