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SAVE OAKLAND ARTS NOW! Stop the 50% Arts Cut!

The Council needs to hear from us again! The community prevailed when we raised our voices against similar cuts in October 2008. WE CAN DO IT AGAIN!

The Oakland City Council considers a 50% Cut to Oakland Arts at a special budget session on Thursday, April 1, 2010, 7pm. This is one move closer towards the elimination of the Cultural Funding Program, the long-established, competitive City program to provide arts and cultural services with attendance over 1.4 million.

What's at Stake: The City Council faces an unprecedented budget challenge. The additional proposed 50% cut to the Arts:

1. Is disproportionate to other City program cuts,
2. Stands to cripple the arts sector, and
3. Significantly reduces City tax revenues. Oakland is currently 13th in the nation for Arts Businesses per capita.

For every $1 the City invests in arts and culture, the City gets back $4 in fees, licenses and taxes. Nonprofit Arts in Oakland generate over $103 million in total gross annual economic activity and provide more than 5,000 jobs. The proposed cut means less revenue, more arts organizations closing their doors, loss of jobs and irreversible damage to the sector's infrastructure. The Arts are a means of economic investment and renewal for Oakland! STOP THE 50% ARTS CUT!

Did you know that the Nonprofit Arts in Oakland:

• 13th in the nation for Arts Businesses per capita.
• Generates over $103 million in economic activity
• Provides more than 5,000 jobs.
• Produces more than $ 4 million in revenue to local government
• Arts funding is a Low Cost Investment with High Economic and Cultural Return
• Arts are a means of community and cultural development
• Art serves public safety, violence prevention and saves lives
• Arts education contributes to academic success and increased skill development for youth
• Art generates revenue; If the arts decline then other businesses decline in a ripple effect
• Oakland benefits from one of the largest artist populations in the country
• Art Cuts = Bad press for the City and undermine national and regional marketing campaigns

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