action items:
Just a quick personal note:
As some of you know, in 2009 I began as Director of Development at Performance Space 122. I had promised to keep sending these emails, but I completely failed. My plan this year is to shift this information to my Facebook and Twitter and Contemporary Performance Network feeds: with the focus still on the training, submissions, requests, advocacy things, links to artists in interviews, conversations, talks, etc.
In the meantime: Our Federal, State and City representatives regularly fighting the good fight to salvage what they can in government funds from their dwindling budgets. Please write them and thank them, and also please tell them how important the arts are to you. We all need to become more active advocates for ourselves, our artists, our audiences, our artistic neighbors and our local community.
if you send letters - I would love to hear about it / collect copies - so feel free to send them on to me or just tell me "I sent letters!": morgan@lostnotebook.org.
If you can only make the time to send out one set of letters, please go ahead and act locally by sending letters to New York City Council Members - it could have the most impact.
Here is the contact info:
FEDERAL
STATE
CITY
Borough & Community Board
A useful tool if you want to know who your reps at every level are and the demographics of your area and other such fun facts: http://nymap.elections.state.ny.us/nysboe/
FEDERAL: NEA (National Endowment for the Arts)
Send to: SENATE & CONGRESS
Senator Charles E. Schumer
757 Third Avenue
Suite 17-02
New York, NY 10017
Or send it to him online
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
780 Third Avenue
Suite 2601
New York, NY 10017
Or send it to her online
To find your congress person:
http://www.house.gov/
And enter your zip code in the upper left hand corner
STATE: NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts)
Assembly Speaker
Speaker Sheldon Silver
64th District
District Office
250 Broadway, Suite 2307
New York, NY 10007
Or sent it to him online.
The Chair of the Cultural Affairs Committee: Senator Jose M. Serrano
157 East 104th Street (Ground Level)
New York, New York 10029
Or serrano@senate.state.ny.us
And to find your State Senator:
http://www.nysenate.gov/
And enter your zip code in the upper left hand corner
Your State Assembly Person: http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/
Or you may have to go here to find out because ZIP code searches aren't always enough.
Senators on the Cultural Affairs Committee:
Sen. James S. Alesi
Sen. Thomas K. Duane
Sen. John J. Flanagan
Sen. Joseph A. Griffo
Sen. Betty Little
Sen. Michael H. Ranzenhofer
Sen. Eric T. Schneiderman
Sen. Daniel L. Squadron
Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky
Sen. Antoine M Thompson
Sen. David J. Valesky
Sen. George Winner
CITY: DCA (Department of Cultural Affairs)
Schedule for Cultural Affairs Hearings
Hearings are open to the public.
City Council Speaker:
Speaker Christine C. Quinn
224 West 30th St (Suite 1206)
New York, NY 10001
Or send it to her online here Click "Contact Speaker Quinn" and the form will appear.
Chair of the Cultural Affairs Committee:
Honorable James G. Van Bramer
47-01 Queens Boulevard, Suite 205
Sunnyside, NY 11104
Or jvanbramer@council.nyc.gov
Former Chair of the Cultural Affairs Committee and now Chair of the Finance Committee:
Honorable Dominic M. Recchia, Jr.
445 Neptune Avenue, Community Room 2C
Brooklyn, New York 11224
Or drecchia@council.nyc.gov
And you can find your City Council Person here:
http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml
Other Cultural Affairs Committee Members:
Honorable Leroy G. Comrie, Jr.
Honorable Inez E. Dickens
Honorable Daniel Dromm
Honorable Jessica S. Lappin
Honorable Thomas White, Jr.
Borough Presidents and Community Board info coming soon.
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