Britain Announces A $2 Billion Rescue Package For The Arts

London's Lyceum Theatre is wrapped in pink tape bearing the words"Missing Live Theatre," part of a campaign by a group of British stage designers.Keith Mayhew/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The rescue package will include grants and loans that theaters, museums, live music organizations and others can use to pay salaries and maintenance costs as they try to survive the COVID-19 recession., the famed London theater."The government is rightly recognizing that investment in thriving sectors at a point of crisis is a good investment, and what we don't want to do is come out of lockdown to have theaters boarded up, restaurants boarded up [and] shops unvisited wastelands.

It’s only for prestigious arts institutions, mostly in London. Many smaller theatres will stay closed. Many artists will not have an income. It’s too little too late for many.

NYCMayor please help our theaters,

Meanwhile BenedictDonald is concered about NASCAR ratings and Florida thinks Professional 'Wrestling' is an Essential business. Good God when will this episode of 'The Twight Zone' end

For scale, Britain has 1/4 the population of the US. The US' cultural economy has a bigger output than Sweden's GDP.

Pretty sure that is as much help to the working class, perhaps even less, than bailing out airlines

Why bother...it’s all racist!!!

If I could ❤️ this 100 times, I would.

I want to go back to the UK

Filled with the PEDOVORES like pedowood in USA

American Exceptionalism is not caring about your Art, Literature and Music Creators.

Initiatives like this require empathy, generosity and vision from political leaders.

Meanwhile the US burns everything down

John Lennons stuff is considered Priceless and we should always always imagine if not where would be the queen be?

“Rescue...” you man extorted tax payers for stuff they don’t value.

The Chiefs are spending a quarter of that on a single person

And we just plain refuse to support the arts. Symphony orchestras, operas and ballet companies are going broke as we speak and nothing from the feds that is earmarked for the arts. werebetterthanthis

Seems like a waste of money. Can’t they spend it on the homeless problem

But please not the lion king

Meanwhile, Trump has probably granted the WWE a massive grant under the PPP for small businesses.

Please help Mitch McConnell. MoscowMitchMcConnell

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