This episode is part of our special series on how the arts and culture sector is coming back from the Covid 19 pandemic and features voices from our co-production of Arts For a Better Bay Areas State Of The Arts Summit on June 28th, 2023. The focus of the summit was how artists and arts organizations are adapting in a post-pandemic marketplace along with the economic developmental power of our arts and culture economy in rebuilding our communities.
Host: George Koster, Co-host: Kathryn Reasoner, Guest: Kathryn Reasoner, Mark Morrisette, Joshua Simon, Ian Winters, Meg Shiffler, & Julie Baker co-production partnership with Arts for a Better Bay Area for their State of the Arts Summit along with our amazing technical crew the audio and video wizard our associate producer Eric Estrada and our co-production partner BAVC Media and their wonderful staff Paula Arrigoni, Andy Kawanami, Isa Nakazawa, Javan Jiles, and Melanie Ayala, The graphics magic was made possible by Kasey Nance from Citron Studios, An Alien Boy Production
Voices of the Community in partnership with BAVC Media is producing this 7-episode special series of community dialogues The State of Our Arts & Culture Organizations in both a live and virtual format and broadcasting as a radio show, television show, and podcast. multi-media / multiplatform The community dialogues feature Arts and Culture organization leaders, funders, and the general public discussing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our Arts and Culture sector. The community dialogues support and cultivate a learning community that will identify, and explore the solutions and actions to stabilize, sustain, diversify, and scale up our Arts and Culture sector. The 6 part special series from January to December 2023 will leverage and continue Voices of the Community's three-year 105-episode [featuring 27 Arts & Culture Organizations] series on Covid-19s Impact on Nonprofits and BAVC Medias SF Commons' one-year plus experience in producing the series "SF Nonprofit Spotlight" that Voices of the Community helped produce the first episodes for. These two series have created awareness, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on our nonprofits, small businesses, and local government along with greater support by the general public, funders, and local government.
One of the overarching issues the series will be addressing is the economic and operational impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the viability and the ongoing sustainability of the arts and cultural organizations in San Francisco. The series will spotlight all of the economic and operational issues facing the arts and culture organizations as well as the solutions the organizations are working on along with the identified solutions that the arts and cultural organizations need support from the philanthropic, government, and community/audience to do to help the organizations survive and thrive in the new world order of an on-going pandemic. What the video episodes of the series on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@GeoKoster
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episode is part of our special series on how the arts and culture sector is coming back from the Covid 19 pandemic and features voices from our co-production of Arts For a Better Bay Areas State Of The Arts Summit on June 28th, 2023.