RONA RELIEF FUNDS/RESOURCES LIST:
MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL: $1,000
COVID 19 Individual Relief Fund
Federal Arts Funding Opportunities for Nonprofit and Commerical Arts Organizations and Individual Artists
https://www.thelewisprize.org- application opens on April 20 ends May May with grants of $25,000 - $50,000 on June 16th to responsive and adaptive Creative Youth Development (CYD) music programs.
Paycheck Protection Program (for self employed/small businesses)
https://bench.co/blog/operations/paycheck-protection-program-self-employed/?blm_aid=4690950
Ongoing:
The City of Boston has already launched an Artist Relief Fund. More information at: https://www.boston.gov/news/boston-establishes-artist-relief-fund-response-coronavirus
The Record Company has launched a Music Maker Relief Fund. More information at: https://www.therecordco.org/relief
SELF-EMPLOYMENT unemployment benefits, resources for creatives- the CARES Act
SBA DISASTER LOAN- covid19relief.sba.gov
Emergency Relief funds for individual visual artists who are women-identified and over 40 years old - up to $2,500
Assets 4 Artists/Mass Moca- the link below is a list for New England area
https://www.assetsforartists.org/blog/coronavirus
Arts Leaders of Color Emergency Fund
Artist & Activist Relief Fund
SURVIVOR Audio, Visual, Online Resources for Living Through This:
Irresistible Podcast: 36 Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good with adrienne maree brown & Amita Swadhin https://irresistible.org/podcast/36
Irresistible Podcast: Corona and Social Justice https://irresistible.org/podcast/corona
Advice from A Loving Bitch Rythea Lee https://rythea.com/advice/
WarmLines: A Peer Run Listening Line staffed by people in recovery themselves http://warmline.org
Irresistible Care Circle with BJ Star every Thursday through end of April:
https://irresistible.org/circle
Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s ground breaking documentary called "No! The Rape Documentary" is STREAMING IT NOW until April 30th for just $1.00 for a 72 hour rental period. https://notherapedocumentary.org/streaming?fbclid=IwAR1rFsEfH1Qy20Gne7qmTcHFda0gVPsEwlvbXzBau4XyUXxeHI6_gD-TQzY
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nodocumentarycaptions
Trauma & Grounding in Pandemic, Webinar by Teresa Mateus:
10 Things that Shift in a Crisis, Webinar by Teresa Mateus:
Somatics Online Resources (Group classes, Circles, Audio Libraries):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wx1sFtoqvpF847dOyZvZnQNlfHpaKT0yTWvDJ8QlXtM/edit?ts=5e79327e
Nervous system healing resources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18kcGoaZ3IjspbWJx_j8yA6eOdwU3kqqFEGsH3QAnTq0
Transforming Anxiety Video Series, Jacey Eve
On FB: www.facebook.com/jaceyevesomatics
On Youtube Video 1 (Feeling Anxious? Try this...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2-aXfufGUs&t=3s
Youtube Vid 2 (How to identify what's under anxiety: Use my fencer's trick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcR-0Bif1I
Community Care
TRACC (Trauma Response and Crisis Care) Community Care Free 1-1 Support Sessions for QTPOC folks, organizers and activists
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfc2mne23STdA7a5VBsAaL-tqj57qHoL_AzCEtO27D9OvvQqA/viewform