A call for artists affected by Atlantic hurricanes in 2017 or 2018
Application deadline: Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019
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Application deadline: Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019
[caption id="attachment_34666" align="aligncenter" width="563"] The world-famous Hub Calls for Art Megaphone.[/caption]
Widespread area flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence has resulted in numerous cancellations and rescheduling of cultural arts events at Coastal Carolina University.
The following list, categorized by genre, reflects the current status of revisions and may undergo future updates. Dates and times differ from those printed in the Fall 2018 Cultural Arts Calendar.
Please visit coastal.edu/culturalarts for more information and for an updated schedule of events. You can also follow @CCUCulturalArts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Tickets for all events can be obtained (where applicable) from the Wheelwright Box Office at 108 Spadoni Park Circle on the main Conway campus between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. View a map of campus here and a parking map here.
As life continues returning to normal for most in South Carolina, we’re aware that such will happen much later for many in the northeastern corner of our state.
Inland floodwaters upstream in both Carolinas are making their way to the coast through areas in South Carolina, and the problems are either getting worse in already affected areas or just beginning for others.
The South Carolina Arts Commission is concerned for the well-being of organizations and #SCartists and our staff want to provide whatever assistance we can, starting with connecting to resources (below) that can help begin the recovery process. Staff will continue to monitor and reach out to arts organizations and artists in the Pee Dee and Grand Strand regions. We have received sporadic reports of damage, and flooding continues to be a significant concern in many communities, with more anxiously watching rising waters.
If your organization is dealing with flooding or other related issues, please update your county or discipline coordinator or email or call Communications Director Jason Rapp (jrapp@arts.sc.gov or 803.734.8899) so that we can best assist your organization.
We cooperated quickly with a request by FEMA’s Heritage Emergency National Task Force (HENTF) office for a list of arts organizations in our state. The HENTF office expects to reach out soon to those in affected counties to provide information on disaster assistance. Through this post on The Hub, we are listing resources that might be of assistance, and the One SC Fund of the Central Carolina Community Foundation continues to be a leading assistance fund for South Carolinians who are victims of a state-declared disaster. (You might wish to share it with your stakeholders.)
These resources have relevance to all. We urge those of you not affected by Florence to take advantage of them. The time to get #ArtsReady and prepare for the next Florence is now, not when it's off our coastline.
Everyone dealing with the aftermath of Florence remains in our thoughts and prayers.
Though far from the only thing, grants are certainly among the main things we do here. And because of their importance in our work, and what they mean to so many of you, The Hub wants to help keep Arts Commission grants top-of-mind and reduce the instances of people telling us, "If only we'd known about X grant!" We can't reach everybody, but we can try. On Mondays with deadlines on the horizon, "Grants Roundup" highlights first what grants are due that week and then includes what's coming later in increments.
Good morning!
"Tuning Up" is a morning post series where The Hub delivers curated, quick-hit arts stories of interest to readers. Sometimes there will be one story, sometimes there will be several. Get in tune now, and have a masterpiece of a day. And now, in no particular order...
Hurricane Florence is approaching the East Coast and will likely have landfall Thursday or Friday.
Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency. Coastal S.C. counties are to begin evacuating at noon Tuesday, and schools as far inland as Lexington County are closing to provide shelters and buses to assist in evacuation procedures. Read more here.
While Florence's path remains difficult to predict, artists and arts organizations in South Carolina should anticipate impact and prepare accordingly.
Bonus content: South Carolina Emergency Management Division
If you have an ArtsReady/readiness plan, we hope that triggering it into action provides you with the ability to prepare for the storm. If not, we encourage you to take a few basic steps to prepare your office/venue/studio for the potential impact before departing for your personal preparation - unless you are under an evacuation order, in which case you should follow the instructions of local/state officials immediately. If you aren’t in the hurricane’s path, please use this time to take a look at your own readiness planning in the event of a future emergency. Visit ArtsReady to start or build upon your readiness plan; sign up for free webinars on a variety of readiness and disaster planning offered through the Performing Arts Readiness project; and sign up to get regular information on grants, trainings and programs to improve your organization’s readiness and resiliency (much of this project’s content is relevant to arts organizations and artists of all disciplines).