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Our natural optimism points in one direction, even as recent history points in another.
Last spring, Jared Kushner predicted that the coronavirus pandemic would soon end and that the United States would be “really rocking again” by July. Some critics saw his statement, which proved so fatally wrong, as a form of deceit. I saw evidence of something more pitiful: Kushner had fallen prey to optimism bias and availability bias. Optimism clouded his judgment. He wanted things to be better in July, so he assumed they would be. And his thinking was limited by the examples from the recent past available to him. Had the country ever shut down for months in his lifetime? No. Therefore, that wouldn’t happen.
SPAC announces live concerts at Pitney Meadows Community Farm
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SPAC chamber music series to be at Saratoga farm this summer
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. â As the community marks one year since performing arts venues were shuttered due to COVID-19, local leaders are looking forward to presenting live entertainment again soon.
In a recent panel discussion titled âPlanning To Go Liveâ at Caffe Lena and livestreamed to an online audience, officials from Caffe Lena, Opera Saratoga, and Saratoga Performing Arts Center spoke about the future of entertainment in the Saratoga Springs area.
Panelists Elizabeth Sobol of SPAC, Lawrence Edelson of Opera Saratoga, and Sarah Craig of Caffe Lena all shared some insight into their reevaluation processes, the maze of decisions they are navigating this spring and the long term impacts of the ongoing pandemic on their organizations - as well as whatâs on the horizon as the industry at large reopens.