Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Actors' Equity Association Releases New Virus Safety Resources for Producers
www.broadwayworld.com: Actors' Equity Association has released a public list of resources geared towards producers looking to resume live theatre.
These resources are an example of how Equity is collaborating with producers across the country on safety plans that could bring back some theatre in the coming months assuming the epidemic is brought under control in more states.
BIPOC Artists Unveil Demands for the White American Theatre
Playbill: Following the publishing of a powerful letter in June, the We See You White American Theater campaign has released a 31-page document of demands written on behalf of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) theatremakers. The document addresses the necessary redistribution of power and funding, the prioritizing of anti-racist practices and a de-centering of whiteness, and outlines several measures towards a more equitable, safe industry, including specific action steps for The Broadway League, Actors' Equity, IATSE, SDC, and the Casting Society of America.
Britain Announces A $2 Billion Rescue Package For The Arts
Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR: The British government will spend nearly $2 billion to help rescue the nation's theater, museum and arts sectors. Sunday's announcement came as more than 1,000 theaters remain shuttered across the country because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The rescue package will include grants and loans that theaters, museums, live music organizations and others can use to pay salaries and maintenance costs as they try to survive the COVID-19 recession.
Women’s Roller Derby Has a Plan for Covid, and It Kicks Ass
WIRED: When the pandemic hit, the world of women’s roller-derby spun into action. On April 6, an international governing body for the sport, the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, put out a call for public health professionals in their midst to come together and devise a plan. Mikaela Kosich (derby name: Bubble Wrath), a biostatistician at the University of New Mexico, heeded the call. So did Nikki McCorristin (derby name: Trauma), an infection control nurse in Salt Lake City, and Bobbiejean Garcia (derby name: BG Smack), an epidemiologist in Houston. In the end, close to two dozen athlete-experts from six countries collaborated on the sport’s return-to-play guidelines.
Finding Hope in Theatre That Hasn’t Happened Yet: How to Survive a Global Pandemic
Sightlines: To be a university student right now is to occupy a space of uncertainty and blame. Will universities meet face to face this fall? The plans that have been announced range from fully in person like Perdue University to full online like the entire California State system. Young people have become the nation’s favorite guilty party as everyone from the governor of Texas to U.S. Vice President hold them responsible for explosion of coronavirus outbreaks. This is all while many of them struggle with their own and their families’ health, financial precarity, and their worries about the world they are expected to join upon graduation.
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