Volume 25 Issue 7 - April 2020
After some doubt that we would be allowed to go to press, in respect to wide-ranging Ontario business closures relating to COVID-19, The WholeNote magazine for April 2020 is now on press, and print distribution – modified to respect community-wide closures and the need for appropriate distancing – starts Monday March 30. Meanwhile the full magazine is right here, digitally, so if you value us PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK AS WIDELY AS YOU CAN. It's the safest way for us to reach the widest possible audience at this time!
After some doubt that we would be allowed to go to press, in respect to wide-ranging Ontario business closures relating to COVID-19, The WholeNote magazine for April 2020 is now on press, and print distribution – modified to respect community-wide closures and the need for appropriate distancing – starts Monday March 30. Meanwhile the full magazine is right here, digitally, so if you value us PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK AS WIDELY AS YOU CAN. It's the safest way for us to reach the widest possible audience at this time!
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COVID-19 – Resources<br />
Artist Resources<br />
In light of recent and ongoing cancellations, closures, and quarantines<br />
due to the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19 ) pandemic,<br />
many folks are facing suddenly precarious financial and social<br />
circumstances. Arts organizations, freelancers, arts workers and other<br />
gig/temporary workers constitute a particularly hard-hit group—one<br />
that our team is trying our best to support.<br />
Visit thewholenote.com/COVID for resource lists designed to assist arts<br />
workers impacted by the ongoing crisis. These resource lists will be<br />
updated on a regular basis.<br />
Our intent is not to re-invent the wheel, but rather to amplify and<br />
broadcast the work put in by those who created (and are creating)<br />
those resources and support systems, by sharing them directly with our<br />
readership—especially those resources that might particularly apply to<br />
musicians and other arts workers based in the area we serve.<br />
Resources compiled to date fall into four broad areas.<br />
• COMPILATION DOCUMENTS: These are large, compiled resource lists<br />
that provide an overview of resources for arts workers struggling<br />
with issues related to COVID-19.<br />
• FINANCIAL/ADVOCACY RESOURCES: These are organizations who<br />
routinely work to provide support and emergency funding for<br />
professional artists in Canada.<br />
• FINANCIAL RESOURCES: INFORMATION FROM GOVERNMENT AND<br />
GRANTING BODIES: This is where you can find information related<br />
to government and grant support.<br />
• COMMUNITY-LED INITIATIVES: These are initiatives for support led by<br />
individuals, organizations, and community groups.<br />
If you have information to contribute please contact<br />
editorial@thewholenote.com<br />
For those readers who would like to support arts workers and folks in<br />
otherwise precarious circumstances, please consider donating to one or<br />
more of the community initiatives you will find online on our COVID-19<br />
Artist Resources page. You can also donate to local arts organizations,<br />
buy artists’ recordings and merchandise, and tune in to (and financially<br />
support) musicians’ livestreams.<br />
Reader Resources<br />
The WholeNote is committed to keeping our readership informed of<br />
COVID-19 changes and developments in all our coverage areas and in<br />
all the media at our disposal.<br />
We will continue to update daily listings online as and when we receive<br />
new information concerning live concert and event listings that have<br />
been cancelled, postponed, and rescheduled.<br />
We have added a search tag to our online listings to enable you to check<br />
on the status of events in those listings. Go to thewholenote.com/justask<br />
and click on “advanced options” to select cancelled/posponed as one of<br />
the filters;<br />
We are working on adding an online/virtual events component to our<br />
daily listings, where you’ll be able to find online events, live streams, and<br />
recorded concerts by artists who had to cancel upcoming performances.<br />
If you have information about any such initiatives, help us to help you.<br />
• Send information to listings@thewholenote.com<br />
• Register on our website home page for HalfTones, our regular e-letter<br />
so we can keep you in the loop.<br />
• Write to us at editorial@thewholenote.com with news of value to other<br />
music lovers in these complex times.<br />
• We are committed to maintaining an increased social media presence<br />
during this time. Find and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and<br />
Facebook.<br />
Finally, a helpful hint:<br />
Do you have a Toronto Public Library Card?<br />
All branches are closed but no fines will be charged for overdue<br />
materials you currently have at home, and if your card is due to expire<br />
it will remain valid until June 1. You can continue to place holds on<br />
items you’d like, for pick-up when the libraries re-open. Online at<br />
torontopubliclibrary.com, and on their Facebook page, you will find<br />
a special guide to all their digital resources called 38 ways to use the<br />
library from your home. This includes access to reading materials and<br />
also podcasts, movies and lots of music. If you have any questions about<br />
how to access TPL digital resources you can contact them by email at<br />
answerline@tpl.ca.You can also connect with TPL on Facebook, Twitter<br />
or Instagram.<br />
StreamING CONCERTS iN EMPTY VENUES<br />
suppOrtING the ecOnOmy of culture<br />
#URGNTLIVE<br />
www.urgnt.ca<br />
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