The Big Night In for the Arts is back for another year of fundraising for the Triangle's arts community! Katie Murray of the Orange County Arts Commission and Cheryl Chamblee of the Chatham Arts Council join 97.9 The Hill's Brighton McConnell to share details about Thursday night's telecast, which aims to raise money for the arts industry as we emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘Day of the Books’ Drive-Thru Celebration Delivers Hundreds of Bilingual Books to Siler City Children
The Chatham County Partnership for Children’s annual Day of the Books celebration distributed about 200 new and used bilingual books in English and Spanish to nearly 150 children last Saturday at Bray Park.
“The Day of the Books 2021 went even better than we thought it would,” the Partnership’s program director, Elizabeth Anderson, told the News + Record. “We weren’t sure what to expect with a drive-thru event during the middle of a pandemic, but the drive-thru format of the event worked very well and we had a larger turnout than expected.”
Arts Nonprofits Grapple With Effects Of COVID Year
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After more than a year of shuttered venues and cancelled performances, arts and entertainment nonprofit organizations are grappling with devastating amounts of lost revenue and facing a longer road to recovery than any other sector of nonprofits.
The core of many arts nonprofits live, in-person performances was impossible to provide during the pandemic, leaving organizations scrambling to make up revenue.
“That loss to gather together, which all of us experienced, for the performing arts, it meant that the core of what we do is simply not safe,” said David Brower, the executive director of PineCone, a Raleigh-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting traditional music.