The Troubles of Advocating for Literary Publishing [Yes, Things Are That Bad]
This past Monday I participated in LitTAP’s 2011 Facing Pages Convening, a day-long event dedicated to helping nonprofit literary organizations to better “Tell Their Story” in fundraising documents and marketing materials. My main role in the conference was to serve as the Simon Cowell of the ...
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Yes to Manifestos, No to Seizure-inducing Web Design
Via the Salzberg Global Seminar listserv for the translation conference held a couple years ago, I was directed to this site, which contains a manifesto to increase EU culture funding. Right now, culture funding makes up 0.05% of the EU budget, 99.9% of which goes to support the Eurovision Contest. (JOKE.) Anyway, in order ...
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NYSCA Update
A few weeks ago I posted about the likelihood that the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) was going to have $7 million taken away from it for this current fiscal year, impacting over 500 arts organizations across the state and eliminated hundred of grants (including two to Open Letter). Well, on Tuesday, this cut ...
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And in Other Uplifting News . . .
Thanks to the booming economy, Governor Patterson of New York State is having to make cuts to this year’s budget at a number of organizations, including the New York State Council on the Arts. Based on the current proposal, NYSCA would lose $7 million, which, according to the Alliance of NYS Arts Organizations would ...
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Funding for the Arts, Wikis, and Brian Lehrer
I wish I had come across this sooner . . . Earlier this week the L.A. Times blog Jacket Copy posted a piece about today’s episode of the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC. As part of his 30 Issues in Thirty Days series, today’s show focuses on “Arts and Culture Funding,” looking at Obama’s and ...
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Canadian Argument for Public Funding of the Arts
Following the news that the Canadian government is going to cut funding to five arts and culture programs (up to $20 million in funding), there’s an interesting piece in CBC News listing some of the arguments for why arts deserve public funding: It used to be, in the 1960s and ’70s, that the arts were ...
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Bad News for Arts Organizations in England
Happy Holidays from the England Arts Council: Nearly 200 arts organisations in England have been told that their funding will end from next April in the biggest and most bloody cull since the Arts Council was set up more than 50 years ago. Pre-Christmas letters from Arts Council England have been dropping on the ...
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