Gay Agenda • Feb. 26, 2021
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On a recent morning, Bill Williams, 87, awoke to learn of a terrible virus that had spread everywhere and was killing people. âWell, weâve got this virus,â an aide at his nursing home in Broken Bow, Neb., told him. A few minutes later, he had forgotten about the virus, and so the nursing aide told him again. And then again. She would have to tell him the next day, too.
âItâs pretty quiet in here,â Mr. Williams said, biting the inside of his lip a little.
âWell, weâve got this virus.â
On most days, after Mr. Williams forgets again about the virus, he gets out of his armchair and into his wheelchair and goes down the hallway at Brookestone View Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation. Like other residents with Alzheimerâs disease or dementia, he is ânoncompliantâ with mask-wearing protocols. He says the masks fog up his glasses. Or he thinks: What mask? He is also ânoncompliantâ with social-distancing measures.
TACA expanding Pop-Up Grant program with Artist Bonus funds
Feb 1, 2021 |
Kateri Cale, artistic director of Echo Theatre. Echo received a Pop-Up Grant from TACA last fall.
The Arts Community Alliance has announced an expansion of its Pop-Up Grant program to include Artist Bonus funds, a new source of funding for individual artists, providing them financial support while the arts continue to feel the impact of the pandemic, while extending the program through 2021.
The addition of the artist bonus funding is made possible by a $180,000 gift from the March Family Foundation.
The Pop-Up Grant program debuted in August 2020 as part of the new TACA Resiliency Initiative, and TACA has distributed Pop-Up Grants since then as small, unrestricted disbursements to arts organizations demonstrating quality short-term programming, exceptional creativity and innovation. These monthly merit-based awards are designed to increase the awareness of artistic work happening in and around the commun