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The Biden-Harris administration must integrate the arts into our national recovery
Deborah Cullinan
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Dress rehearsal for the world premiere of Alonzo King LINES Ballet 35th Anniversary at YBCA Theater in San Francisco in 2018Sarahbeth Maney / Special to the Chronicle 2018
“We are at our most inventive when we are falling.” This lesson from Liz Lerman, a choreographer and one of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ senior fellows, has stuck with me over this past year.
Artists and the cultural sector have fallen harder in the past year than we could have ever imagined. The impacts of the pandemic on the sector are clear. Philanthropy at North American arts organizations declined by 14% from January to October 2020. Across the U.S., nearly 40% of all nonprofits are at risk of closing permanently. An estimated 2.7 million jobs have been lost in the creative industries nationwide.
A timeline of the moments that defined theater in 2020 in the Bay Area and beyond
Finding the specific moments in 2020 that altered our art form can help us name our losses and move forward
Lily Janiak December 23, 2020Updated: December 28, 2020, 7:21 am
Megan Nicely performs with Maddy Lawder (right) during a balcony dance in Oakland as part of “Neighborhood Stories,” where audiences in a small caravan of cars (leaving in different shifts a few minutes apart) drive from address to address. Photo: Yalonda M. James , The Chronicle
Even so, much of this year has felt like an undifferentiated haze. We theater lovers haven’t had opening nights and curtain times to structure our lives in the way we’re used to. Finding the specific moments in 2020 that altered our art form can be therapeutic, helping us name our losses and move forward, so here are a few of the “most 2020” instants in theater, presented in the style of a captain’s log.
SF will now allow musicians to play at farmers markets
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Kevin North Band plays at Sunset Mercantile in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2020. The new stay-at-home order allows farmers markets to continue operation as an essential service, but the musicians that play there have temporarily lost one of their only gigs and, subsequently, their income.Angie Petitt-Taylor/Outer Sunset Farmers Market and MercantileShow MoreShow Less
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Kevin North Band plays at Sunset Mercantile.Angie Petitt-Taylor/Outer Sunset Farmers Market and MercantileShow MoreShow Less
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LATEST, Dec. 16, 9:02 a.m. Since the publication of this story Tuesday afternoon, the city of San Francisco s website was updated to reflect that musicians can play at farmers markets under the new stay-at-home order.