Token Theatre Friends: Recently, the advocacy group Be An Arts Hero was trying to get a meeting with Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski about why there needs to be a federal bailout for the arts. Suffice it to say, it was not going well. “Her person got back in touch with us and was like, ‘Oh, you know, it’s not a big deal up here.’” said Carson Elrod, one of the cofounders of Be An Arts Hero, an independent non-profit advocacy group.
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Getting a bailout for the crisis that the Arts community is in would be such a nice and very needed thing. But it has not happened yet, eight months into the pandemic, so what are the odds that it will happen now?
As sad as it is to say this, but a government that has failed to support its citizens in making sure that they can survive this pandemic, financially, in a healthy way, it does not seem to me that they can or plan to do much to help the arts industries. Helping either of these two aspects is not a choose, but clearly choices, for the worse, have been made which has directly impacted these aspects.
I know that a few senators have supported relief for the arts industries for a while now, but that has not gotten anywhere yet, because of all the legalities surrounding such relief acts.
I can only hope that things change for the better, and that that the arts community can finally get some help.
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