CULTURAL EMERGENCY ACTION COALITION

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.