How Canadian performing arts companies and organizations are responding to police brutality protests GlobeArts
were among the major Canadian arts organizations that released statements responding to last week’s disturbing video of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis involving local police.
: “We are committed to examining our art form, acknowledging its history of inequity and taking action to ensure that our future is one of diversity, equity and inclusion through the extraordinary beauty of dance.”released an even more strongly worded statement While large arts institutions have been struggling during the pandemic, they also have had the resources to prominently ask for help from their donors and government – and show expensively recorded work online to keep themselves in the public conversation.
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