April is the fifth annual Arts, Culture and Creativity Month in California, and advocates for the arts are promoting diversity in the arts workforce and celebrating recent policy wins. In Los Angeles, the County Board of Supervisors just voted to join Arts for LA s Creative Jobs Collective Impact Initiative, which aims to create 10,000 living-wage jobs in the state s creative sector by the year 2030. Gustavo Herrera, CEO of Arts for LA, said the idea is to rebuild the arts economy after COVID. .
This week 3/29/23 – On the Arts, KALW’s radio magazine for the Bay Area performing arts, host David Latulippe speaks 42nd St. Moon Merrily We Roll Along cast member DC Scarpelli (‘Charley Kringas’) | Shotgun Players Director & Founder Patrick Dooley | Berkeley Symphony Music Director Joseph Young | Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Panel Member & Comedian Alonzo Bodden |Join us at our new date and time Wednesdays at 4:00PM PST!
To kick off Earth Month in April, a Bay Area event called the Regenerative Gala will promote the concepts of ethical consumerism and fashion and art as a vehicle for change. The event s fashion show rejects so-called "fast fashion" which produces clothes in sweatshops, often made from petroleum-based synthetic fabrics. Joelle Provost, a low-impact painter whose works will be featured, said the focus is on natural fabrics produced on farms avoiding pesticides, rejuvenating the soil, and paying a living wage. .