Lawmakers, art leaders rally in White Plains for million-dollar recovery fund
Legislators and art leaders joined forces today calling for a million-dollar recovery fund to support local arts organizations.
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Mar 26, 2021, 7:23 PM
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11h agoLegislators and art leaders joined forces today
calling for a million-dollar recovery fund to support local arts organizations.
The funding would assist ArtsWestchester in
maintaining its art programs. News 12 is told the programs have suffered
tremendously due to loss of funding during the pandemic.
Organizations
such as Yonkers’ Youth Theater
Interactions believe the funding is essential to helping kids who need outlets
amid the pandemic.
“On a good
day the arts is a nice thing to do. On a bad day, arts
is medicine and we are really in that space right now," says Youth Theater
Interactions executive director Brooke
Demme.
According to ArtsWestchester, the arts has a
$172 million dollar impact in the county and provides over 5,000 jobs.
Lawmakers
say they hope to include funding in the state budget, which is due on April 1.
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