Posted on 03/24/2020 6:18:53 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Artists are some of those hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis and San Francisco Mayor London Breed's office appears to have their back. This morning Breed tweeted out a press release announcing an Arts Relief Program funded by $2.5 million from the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Even in the time of global crisis San Francisco still out does itself in virtue signaling nonsense.
huh? sell your art online. Geez people.
How can an artist afford to live in SF?
What makes people on this list more vulnerable??
A disability, unless it is one that somehow affects how well you can fight off a virus, shouldn’t even be on the list.
I am almost deaf in my right ear. I think it would not affect my experience with the virus at all.
Unless the virus yells warning signals before it enters yours system :)
What about relief for the homeless? No problemo....no dinero.
I don’t see how being cooped up prevents creation of art, however ugly it may be. Art is generally important to society, but it’s nonessential and will certainly return after this virus response is over.
And they wonder why they don’t have the supplies they need for these situations.
The successful ones already do. You can type, 'original paintings for sale' into your browser and search images. There's literally something for every taste. Some of it is actually good.
The mayor is just trying to bail out the useless crucifix in a jar of urine types.
One positive resulting from the pandemic. It ended the drag queen in the library program
FREE TITANIUM WHITE FOR EVERYONE!!!
The friends eventually tired of the bar, night club and bistro scene and went back to their real jobs.
Bob stayed and did everything he could to hang out with the artistic crowd. In return for waiting tables and keeping the place clean, they allowed him to sack out in one of their boom-boom rooms when business was slow in the early morning hours. Eventually, they discovered that Bob had more talent for music and especially songwriting than they did. So he became an entertainer, got a place of his own and the rest, as they say, was history.
There was always more wannabes to occupy the boom-boom rooms thus vacated.
a good part of sf union square is now boarded up.
Gotta gorge on those tax dollars when the opportunity presents !
How? You think this 2.5M$ emergency gift is a new thing ?
What does art really contribute to our society? Sure it’s nice to look at and great art is so expensive that only the wealthy can afford to possess it. Art just sits there, you can’t eat it, it does nothing and literally offers nothing that will better anyone’s life. No wonder SF is now a laughing stock and a huge humanitarian failure.
“serving the most vulnerable — “black, indigenous...”
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