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ArtsOC's VOICES Veterans Project Participants Offer Their Thoughts & Tips on Coping with the COVID-19 Crisis
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Military veterans who participated in Arts Orange County's VOICES Veterans Storytelling Project at share what they are doing to cope during the stay-at-home directive caused by the COVID-19 crisis--and some inspiring words of advice. Many thanks to our veterans: Giovanni Berdejo-Gallegos, Dick Gray, George Davis, Carol Singleton, and Denton Knapp, to our program partners:
Heroes Hall Veterans Museum at the OC Fair & Event Center, Tierney Center for Veterans Services at Goodwill OC, and to our funders: National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Orange County Community Foundation, The William Gillespie Foundation, and Heroes Hall Veterans Foundation.
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A Gradual Re-opening for Some--A Long Wait for Others
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Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens in San Clemente (above) has re-opened its gardens to visitors (though not the historic Ole Hanson home), with social distancing protocol rules in place. It is one of the first OC arts and culture venues to begin the process, following
The Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, which presented drive-in movies and created a sculpture garden on its grounds.
Mission San Juan Capistrano has announced that it, too will re-open to the public with protocols in place on June 13.
Indoor visual arts venues still have a number of challenges before they can re-open fully. ArtsOC is working with Californians for the Arts and local OC museum and heritage site leaders to communicate to government officials how they can re-open safely.
Performing arts venue leaders are also meeting with ArtsOC to share ideas; like the museums, they anticipate being able to hold outdoor events, but the prospect of opening theatres and concert calls is far more challenging. Best practices from performing arts organizations around the world are being collected and shared, but most performing arts leaders believe that it will be very difficult to present live performances in their venues for the remainder of the year in order to protect the health and safety of not only their audiences, but the artists as well.
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ArtsOC Survey Results on COVID-19 Impact on OC Arts Community Attract Media Attention
Recently, Arts Orange County released the
results of its survey of the Orange County arts community's losses due to the pandemic.
Stories about the survey results and interviews with arts leaders have now appeared in
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WILLIAM LYON, who had a major impact on the landscape of Orange County--both as a developer of tens of thousands of homes and as a philanthropist--has died at 97. Along with his wife of 48 years Willa Dean, who survives him, "The General," as he was known (he was a retired U.S. Air Force General), were generous patrons of the arts.
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CYNTHIA FAISST, one of the region's foremost Suzuki Method violin teachers, died in February. She studied in Japan for three years with the late Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, creator of a highly regarded method of teaching violin to children that is in wide use internationally. Faisst spent the last 14 years leading the Santa Ana Suzuki Strings program at the
Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center.
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NICHOLAS BEGOVICH, an engineer and car enthusiast, who was a generous donor to Cal State Fullerton, and after which the
Begovich Art Gallery was named, died earlier this month.
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U.S. NEWS MEDIA ARTICLES ABOUT
ARTS RE-OPENING PLANS AND CHALLENGES
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