NYC Performing Arts Spaces Blog

Have Your Voice Heard! Our Surveys on "Economic Realities" Close Tomorrow (June 11)

Posted by anonymous user, on June 10, 2010 - 0 comments

Tags: musicians, dancers, economic impact, choreographers, actors, survey

We don't repeat ourselves unless it is very important.  And this really is.

NYCPAS is conducting two surveys -- for performing artists and cultural facilities/venues -- that will help government administrators, legislators and policy makers better understand and respond to the impact of the recession on New York City artists.

 

Please take five minutes to tell us about your current professional activities and economic situation.  Whether or not you responded to our surveys in the past, your input today is critical, particularly in light of recent proposed cuts to culture and the arts in New York City and New York State budgets.

 

Take the 5-minute survey for Performing Artists now!

Take the 5-minute survey for Arts Venues & Cultural Facilities now!

 

Both surveys close Friday, June 11th.

Your participation is vital! 

 

These surveys follow up on similar ones taken in 2008 and 2009, and are part of our ongoing effort to accurately gauge the extent to which the recession has impacted New York City artists.

Survey results will be made publicly available, and responses will remain anonymous.

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@nycPASpaces.org.

RFPs for New City Initiative

Posted by anonymous user, on October 5, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: performance opportunities, nonprofit organizations, performance space, economic impact

Thanks for our friends at ART/NY for this heads up.  Following up on Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris' announcement last week at the Crain's "Future of New York" conference, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in conjunction with NYC Economic Development Corporation, have announced RFPs for the five initiatives to strengthen the cultural sector in New York City.  (Read the Mayor's press release here.)  These five initiatives include increasing access to city properties for visual arts and performances, job training for displaced arts workers, and low-cost studio space at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in cooperation with Chashama. 

New City Hall Initiatives to Support Artists in NYC

Posted by anonymous user, on October 1, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: performance opportunities, nonprofit organizations, performance space, economic impact, conference

Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris announced at a Crain's "Future of New York" conference on Wednesday a series of five new initiatives to support new exhibition and performance space in New York City.  Details forthcoming, but Crain's wrote up the announcement on its website yesterday.  

New York's Performing Arts at a Crossroads: A 1/2 Day Conference

Posted by anonymous user, on September 21, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: economic impact, conference

A special half day conference -- "New York's Performing Arts at a Crossroads" -- will be presented by Crain’s New York Business and The Columbia University School of the Arts.

The financial crisis and severe economic downturn in New York have presented unprecedented challenges for the city’s performing arts organizations, with declines in both attendance and fundraising.  This conference, part of the Crain’s Future of New York City series, examines what is happening, how arts organizations are coping with the economic squeeze and how they are planning to survive and thrive in the future.

 

The event will begin with a keynote address by Patricia Harris, first deputy mayor of the city and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s closest aide.  This will be followed by three breakout sessions looking at how the above-mentioned issues affect the perspective of the city’s largest and most prominent arts groups, the theater sector and small arts groups.  The audience will then reassemble for a final session on the outlook for fundraising with a panel.

 

When: September 30, 8:30 AM - 12:45 PM (tentative)

Where: Columbia University campus centered on Miller Hall, Broadway and 116th

Cost: $59 for reserved auditorium seating, $39 unreserved seating

Information, including full roster of scheduled speakers, or tickets: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/section/future_of_new_york_city

Survey of Cultural Facilities and Performing Artists

Posted by anonymous user, on July 31, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: economic impact

The results are in, for our 2009 survey of cultural facilities and performing artists, gauging the effects of the recession on this sector.  We sent out this survey in May, and have now posted the not-entirely-grim responses.  Thanks to all of our respondents, and also the organizations that helped us disseminate the information.