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When disasters like Katrina strike


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There's a brief article in today's LINKS about the enormous consequences of arts institutions and workers in the New Orleans area as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

KATRINA'S EFFECTS ON THE NEW ORLEANS ARTS COMMUNITY

At least 10,000 New Orleans workers in the arts have been displaced. Many have been driven far from the area or are indeed still missing. The offices of major institutions (symphony, opera, and dance copanies) have had set up temporary camp in other cities. It goes on and on.

There are so many questions in this tragedy. How can these people and companies cope? How can they survive as arts institutions and individual artists? Can the experience of other arts communities which HAVE risen from destruction (brought about by nature or war) be an encouraging example for New Orleans?

Please post your thoughts, experiences, memories, and/or suggestions about such questions here.

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There is an AP article on the Louisiana Philharmonic that was published on the andante.com site:

http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=25918

As a self-owned and managed organization, the players are responsible for future plans for the orchestra.

At the bottom of the article is a link to the organization's Google Group, which is visible to the public. It's an interesting combination of people trying to contact each other, find out about where orchestra players they know are now, and others offering help of various kinds.

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Thanks, Helene.

The Google site is a record of so many small steps towards reestablishing life, work, and relationships. It's a tribute to the power of survival and rebirth that we humans -- and especially artists, it seems to me -- are capable of.

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