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We are seeking your input for Fullerton's Historic Hunt Library Revitalization Project! Sharon Quirk-Silva https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TTCSW92

Professional creative artists are facing unemployment at rates well above the national average more than 52 percent of actors and 55 percent of dancers were out of work in the third quarter of the year, at a time when the national unemployment rate was 8.5 percent. In California, the arts and entertainment fields generated a greater percentage of unemployment claims than even the hospitality sector. Several hundred independent music venues have closed; art galleries and dan...ce companies have shuttered.... The Works Progress Administration was a latecomer to Roosevelt’s economic recovery plans, begun in 1935 as part of the so-called second New Deal. Federal Project Number One, as its cultural division was known, accounted for only about one-half of 1 percent of the W.P.A.’s budget but it endures as its most visible legacy, especially in the murals that adorn the country’s post offices, courthouses, school buildings and even prisons. And it should offer the Biden administration a blueprint for a new, federal cultural works project, which treats artists, musicians and writers as essential workers, and sees culture as a linchpin of economic recovery. https://www.nytimes.com///design/arts-stimulus-biden.html See more

We are seeking your input for Fullerton's Historic Hunt Library Revitalization Project! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TTCSW92

In Orange County alone, 137 arts organizations and businesses in 27 cities received relief funds totaling more than $2.7 million.

Who will win this year? Registration for Poetry out Loud is now open, with more ways than ever to put young poets in the spotlight. Learn more and find out how to register a local competition here: https://newsroom.ocde.us/calling-young-poets-registration-/

A Virtual Choir! Meistersingers presents a unique musical experience https://meistersingers.org/concerts-and-events

An OC theatre takes a new approach to performance amid the pandemic (and it’s not Zoom!)... https://voiceofoc.org//maverick-theater-resurrects-night-/

ArtsOC is gearing up for the 2021 Poetry Out Loud competition... https://youtu.be/CmxHm2Y7n5o

YOUR ACTION NEEDED: We need data to tell our story - take the COVID 19 impact survey today! In order to ensure that we are representing your needs strategically... and effectively, we need your help. Working closely with WolfBrown, Californians for the Arts launches two surveys today, targeting businesses/organizations and individual creative workers. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CFTACovidIndividuals https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CFTACovidOrgs Effective advocacy requires data combined with storytelling. As your statewide advocacy organization, we have been working since March to educate policymakers on the impact of COVID 19 on our sector. Please take the survey today and share the links with your colleagues. Please also share our social media graphics. Together we can make the case for funding and resources to sustain our industry through this public health crisis.

It's the Women of Broadway! A Livestream Concert Experience from Segerstrom Center for the Arts https://www.scfta.org/events/2020/patti-lupone-(1)

Saturday, November 7: Irvine Fine Arts Center's Holiday Faire at the Great Park! https://secure.yourirvine.org//df8729c6477b238fd00dddbbaa0

Monday is your last chance to share your opinions (residents AND visitors) on what arts programming the City of Newport Beach should offer/continue to offer. If you love the Sculptures in the Park program, please be sure and let them know! https://www.newportbeachindy.com/your-opinion-matters/

The Fiesta is underway! Celebrate Film with OC Film Fiesta! http://www.ocfilmfiesta.org/

https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/laguna-art-museum-directo/

https://www.nytimes.com//arts/mellon-foundation-monuments.

The Newport Beach Film Festival is (Virtually) Here! ArtsOC is a proud Community Partner of the festival, and recommends you check out the Southern California premiere of the inspiring new art documentary "The New Bauhaus". Stream from the comfort of home all during the festival, today through Oct. 11th! https://watch.eventive.org/nbff2//5f6a34aba2ce83004c6ab99e

Op-Ed: Does LACMA’s redesign deserve this much carping? https://www.latimes.com//los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-