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CULTURAL EMERGENCY ACTION COALITION

About Me

The Cultural Emergency Action Coalition is committed to the principle that experimental arts in New York City are necessary to keep New York's culture open and vital, and to the proposition that experimental work must be funded to the extent that it will not merely survive, but that it will thrive in this generation and those to follow. Given these commitments, our mission is to determine what resources are needed to achieve and sustain a critical mass of artists and presenters in both established and emerging art forms and to successfully make this case to New York's political, cultural and economic leaders. In particular the committee will work to secure resources adequate to generate and sustain small and mid-sized presenting organizations that ultimately drive large-scale culture to spur New York City to work with the real-estate community to provide world-class housing for experimental arts organizations and artists, and to secure resources that provide livelihoods for artists and presenters whose activities have over the past forty years have fueled billions of dollars of economic development in the city. Our ambition is not simply to protect for a while our waning resources, but to fuel a profound revitalization of the experimental arts in the world's wealthiest and most creative city.

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People who believe in the importance of the arts in new york city.

My Blog

Continuing the discussion a brief report on, "The Warhol Economy" by Elizabeth Currid.

Just spent a few days reading this book on the economics of creative culture in New York by Elizabeth Currid, a public policy professor at USC. For a book that was the product of a doctoral dissertati...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:40:00 GMT

Mayor announces a new not-for-profit desk to support nonprofit and cultural organizations.

http://www.nycfuture.org/content/reports/report_view.cfm?rep key=183Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Addresses New York's Creative Community at Creative New York Conference By Center for an Urban FutureTrans...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:46:00 GMT

About the Cultural Emergency Action Coalition

The Cultural Emergency Action Coalition came into being originally as the brainchild of Suzanne Fiol, Director of the Issue Project Room. IPR quickly became a vital meeting place for the most dispara...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:31:00 GMT

crisis in indie/new music clubs by Marc Ribot

by Marc Ribot, 09/20/2006 - (from takeittothebridge.com).The productivity of new york city's musical culture, even its more mainstream expressions, would have been impossible without the experimental ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:49:00 GMT

mission statement

The Cultural EmergencyThe closing of Tonic constitutes more than the loss of a commercial venue dedicated to serious presentation of experimental music, it signals the late stages of a broader crisis ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:56:00 GMT