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Opera and symphony chorus member urges Arts Commission to tie funding to labor oversight and board representation
Summary
A member of the Opera and Symphony choruses told the Arts Commission that the San Francisco Symphony and similar arts institutions have become corporatized and asked that commission funding be conditioned on worker representation on boards and other oversight mechanisms.
During general public comment June 3, Michael Jankoski, who identified himself as a member of the San Francisco Opera chorus and the San Francisco Symphony chorus, urged the Arts Commission to attach oversight conditions to funding for major arts institutions.
Jankoski said local orchestral institutions were “operating like for-profit corporate corporations rather than arts organizations,” described ongoing organizing at the symphony and a major donor publicly…
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