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Dance Worker Digest | June 2025
This month’s Dance Worker Digest covers a new federal travel ban, police violence against anti-ICE protestors, the passage of New York’s RAISE Act on AI safety, and the rollout of the FARE Act ending forced broker fees.
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Dance/NYC Announces Dance Workforce Resilience Fund
One-time $1,000 grants to freelance dancers…
Advocacy Alert: What’s Your Vote Plan? New York City’s Primary Election is June 24
Important Dates + What’s On the Ballot…
Dance Worker Digest | May 2025
This month’s Dance Worker Digest covers covers major updates to public funding and policy including the finalized New York State budget, new laws to protect transgender New Yorkers, major arts and culture wins in the NYC budget, and funding cuts from the NEA.
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Advocacy Alert: Rally + Testify at Upcoming City Budget Hearings to Expand Arts and Arts Education Funding
May 20 and May 21, 2025 at City Hall…
Advocacy Alert: NEA Grant Cancellations + Next Actions
What you can do, whether you are impacted directly or indirectly…
Advocacy Alert: Two Ways to Support Arts Education for Every Student Now
#ItStartsWithTheArts + National Arts Standards Survey…
Dance Worker Digest | April 2025
This month’s Dance Worker Digest highlights City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams’ 2025 State of the City address outlining priorities for the year ahead, news on immigration groups rallying behind legislation to protect immigrant communities, and an update on the pause of anti-DEI and anti-trans changes to NEA grantmaking as legal challenges move forward.
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