Jesse Green, co-chief theater critic at The New York Times, and Kristin Marting, founding artistic director of HERE Arts Center, join us to talk about the status of New York’s theater industry amidst the pandemic and the United Kingdom’s new $2 billion arts bailout. We also take calls from our listeners about how they’re coping in the theater industry. More…
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A global list of Black-owned/founded museums, art galleries, and spaces
From London to Lagos, Accra, Miami, Chicago, and more – here is an ongoing list of 85+ Black-owned/founded businesses which are bettering the arts. More…
Prague launches Nothing Festival 2020 in support of struggling culture venues
Prague City Councilor Hana Třeštíková and ticket portal GoOut have created a nationwide project to support theaters, concert halls, clubs, and artists closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. More…
Germany Has Rolled Out a Staggering €50 Billion Aid Package For Small Businesses That Boosts Artists and Galleries—and Puts Other Countries to Shame
The German federal government is stepping in with a sweeping aid package for the country’s creative and cultural sectors. According to a press release shared by the ministry of culture and reports in the German press, a staggering €50 billion ($54 billion) in backing will be provided specifically to small businesses and freelancers, including those from the cultural, creative, and media sectors. More…
The world’s coolest theatre is streaming a play every night for free
As every true stage fan knows, Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz has pretty much been the coolest theatre in the world since before most us were born. Its bold, iconoclastic, director-led productions have had a huge influence on global theatre, and under the current leadership of Thomas Ostermeier, its reputation has only swelled. More…
COVID-19 Art Stories
When the first countries began to lock down in response to COVID-19, I was in the midst of researching the aftermath of the Black Death in York in the fourteenth century, and the rise of the documented practice of arts management. The urgency of what was happening in the world almost seven centuries after those events led me to want to capture and amplify the stories of those in the front lines of arts and culture. These are their words, unedited. More…
Canada’s National Arts Centre and Facebook will pay musicians for livestreams
The National Arts Centre has teamed up with Facebook to offer artists a paid alternative to the livestreaming they’re already doing. The Facebook-National Arts Centre Fund for Performing Artists will provide $100,000 in artists fees to support online performances.
The first in the #CanadaPerforms series, which will run on NAC’s Facebook page, will take place Thursday, March 19 at 2 pm EST. Blue Rodeo frontman Jim Cuddy and his Jim Cuddy Band will be joined by Devin Cuddy, Sam Polley and Colin Cripps. The artists will perform in a studio and stand 1.5 metres apart from each other.
Other early performances include Serena Ryder, William Prince, Irish Mythen, Erin Costelo and Whitehorse. More…