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Artists, small and large organizations unite at Board hearing to demand more arts funding
Summary
Dozens of speakers from Arts for a Better Bay Area, the Arts Alliance and individual artists urged supervisors to increase Grants for the Arts, protect cultural spaces and fund youth arts and artist housing amid displacement pressures.
Public comment at the May 6 Budget & Finance Committee hearing was dominated by arts-sector testimony calling for increased city support to prevent displacement of artists and cultural organizations.
Representatives from the Arts Alliance, Arts for a Better Bay Area (ABBA), SFMOMA, San Francisco Symphony and numerous small and mid-sized groups told the committee that arts funding has…
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