COVID-19 Crisis and Emergency Funding Mechanisms: What Action Plans for the Cultural and Creative Sector?

COVID-19 has affected the lives of everybody. Arts and cultural professionals, especially those whose livelihoods depend on live audiences are suffering great difficulties with no easy solution in sight in the short term. On the other hand during any crisis, the arts and culture have always provided humanity with the inspiration and hope to combat despair. Keeping this is mind, on March 20, 2020, Culture Funding Watch in partnership with Rambourg Foundation called for an urgent international virtual conference titled COVID-19 Crisis and Emergency Funding Mechanisms: What Action Plans for the Cultural and Creative Sector? With more than 100 attendees from Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and Australia, the conference was a first successful step to tackle the COVID-19 crisis from the arts and culture perspective.

Click here if you would like to listen to the sound podcast

Click here to read the conference report