Secrets of the City

I think we will be seeing a lot of this in the coming months. A lot of people have less money to give, and when they do give they choose giving money to the poor over the arts.

I know that I personally have a hard time giving money to the arts when the food shelves are being overwhelmed. But at the same time, I know that art is extremely important during hard times. Society needs creative outlets and pretty things.

Ach. I was a day early in my homage to dying arts warriors.

I didn’t know we capitalized recession.

I’m a trendsetter.

This is about Intermedia Arts, yes, but is about so much more—it’s about the state of the arts in our community, and about the action we all need to take—right now—in order for small arts to survive. This is a call to action. It is up to us—Intermedia Arts’ staff, board and you, our community—to look beyond the current crisis and ask ourselves what kinds of resources, artists, galleries, performance spaces and community programs we want available to us, our families, our friends and our children when this crisis is over.

In addition to our upcoming community townhall,
We are currently working with other local arts groups and organizations to discuss ideas for sharing resources and sustaining programming, as well as to determine the ways in which our building could be most valuable to the arts community as Intermedia Arts re-structures our operations and rebuilds our capacity.

Intermedia Arts is organizing a meeting of small and mid-sized arts groups—SOTA: State of the Arts. None of us can do this alone.

that sucks.

Anybody else going to the townhall? I’ll be there.

I’m interested and pleased that IA is organizing around the broader issue in the community and not just their own immediate danger.

In related and depressing news, the Heart of the Beast will cut wages and shut down for part of the year.