Shortly after publishing a post about the momentum among performing arts organizations and performing arts centers behind adopting policies that require ticket buyers and employees to provide proof of vaccination, my wife, violinist Holly Mulcahy, posted a query on Facebook asking colleagues about policies at their organizations.
Responses started rolling in and it made me wonder if any of the usual suspect service orgs or unions were tracking this information. After coming up empty with online searches I reached out to colleagues at each group, and it turns out none of them are currently tracking this and making the results public.
Fortunately, this an easy oversight to rectify and with a little technology magic, populating and updating a list is a straightforward task.
So let’s do some good by providing a centralized resource groups can use to help their decision making process. The database is already up and running with several dozen organizations. I can’t thank Ceci Dadisman enough for her assistance with gathering dance org info and refining the user interface.
If you've been watching any of the early efforts from orchestras experimenting with socially distanced concerts, you've probably noticed that on-stage musicians are wearing…