So encouraging! And btw, as you certainly know, affordable housing and the arts are closely related. Over the decades I've watched the Vineyard's grassroots theater scene dwindle and come a hair's breadth of dying because the coming-and-going of actors and techies was stymied by rents, including off-season rents, and lack of available, affordable rehearsal and performance space. Grassroots music has also taken a big hit, but not quite so devastating because musicians can usually show up, set up, perform, and take down in hours rather than days and weeks. We're having a bit of a revival now, thanks to human initiative and the support of big, space-owning nonprofits, but the connection between housing, arts, and the availability of space remains clear.
Well done Harwich! What a shame the Outer Cape had the opportunity to save a portion of it's historic artist community by repurposing the Highlands center for art work/live space. I don't think the Park Service will be happy till every human is forced out of the Outer Cape.
So encouraging! And btw, as you certainly know, affordable housing and the arts are closely related. Over the decades I've watched the Vineyard's grassroots theater scene dwindle and come a hair's breadth of dying because the coming-and-going of actors and techies was stymied by rents, including off-season rents, and lack of available, affordable rehearsal and performance space. Grassroots music has also taken a big hit, but not quite so devastating because musicians can usually show up, set up, perform, and take down in hours rather than days and weeks. We're having a bit of a revival now, thanks to human initiative and the support of big, space-owning nonprofits, but the connection between housing, arts, and the availability of space remains clear.
Well done Harwich! What a shame the Outer Cape had the opportunity to save a portion of it's historic artist community by repurposing the Highlands center for art work/live space. I don't think the Park Service will be happy till every human is forced out of the Outer Cape.