Posted on 01/22/2022 6:51:21 PM PST by KingofZion
Kevin Dublin, a San Francisco-based poet and writer, is doing everything he can to keep the city’s literary culture alive. He leads a number of writing programs, including the Elder Writing Project, which brings creative writing classes to retirement communities across the Bay Area. He also hosts a community-building reading series, mentors under-resourced kids, spends his summers teaching writing at various youth camps and dreams of founding his own writing youth camp in San Francisco. He is exactly the kind of guy you would want as your neighbor. He’s also exactly the kind of guy the city of San Francisco is least hospitable to.
“There’s so much opportunity here, but a lot of people are holding on by a shoestring,” says Dublin.
The community of artists and writers to which Dublin belongs is fighting to hold on to their place in the most expensive city in America. In 2015, the same year Dublin moved to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Arts Commission surveyed nearly 600 local artists and found that more than 70% of them had either already left San Francisco or were about to be displaced from their work, home or both. The pandemic has only intensified these problems. A report by Americans for the Arts found that 53% of artists have no savings whatsoever as a result of the pandemic.
In an effort to mitigate what appears to be an existential threat to the arts, in March 2021, the city of San Francisco partnered with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to launch a guaranteed income pilot, called the SF Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists, or SF-GIPA, that gives 130 local low-income artists who have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic $1,000 a month, no strings attached, for 18 months. Dublin is among them...
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Not exactly the guy I’d want as a neighbor. Despite what the author thinks.
[[That sucks. My last electric bill was $26.96.]]
What? Ours was $120- what do you have? One light bulb?
whoops=- meant $90, not $120- Had 120 on the brain for soem reason
Steinbeck, Hammett, Woolf
Yes.
Sboulda not tried to get clever.
Well, they did have a certain proclivity in common...
The plandemic has been toughest on all artist types, yet they stubbornly refuse to acknowledge government to be the culprit.
Drives me nuts.
Yep, and it requires 1.21 jigawatts of power to operate.
Regards,
My last electric bill was $226.00. 3 freezers and 3 refrigerators will do that to you.
One big problem with government subsidies of the arts is that you are taxing one group of people to subsidize people who may hate them or not share their values.
One specific example—White males should not be taxed to pay to support artists who use their art to hate on white males.
Then we get to the next problem—if government subsidizes it, directly or indirectly, then government can intervene to decide what it deems “art” and what does not qualify.
That politicizes “art”—and as we know any institution that is not actively right wing quickly drifts into a left-wing bias—so “art” turns into Communist agit-prop.
I love many works of art, but life does not owe artists a living. Any artists can do other work to support themselves and actually most do. A few want society to subsidize them so they can devote all their time to doing art. The pretense is that what they ask is NECESSARY for “art”. No it is not. It is merely desired by and for the few artists that need, but do not want to also work at something else that earns them a living.
That too!
I will bet :”take a daily shower” is also on the list.
1965 ref/freezer
1972 ref/freezer
1972 upright freezer
2005 ref freezer
2008 upright freezer
ALL IN USE
On a well—pumping water for multiple horses-—in days over 90, 10 water tanks of 100 gallons each get filled every 2 days.
3 TV’s
Ceiling fans in summer 24 hours a day NO A/C
Forced air heat in winter 24 hours a day
HOME 24/7
Been here 17 years.
NO BILL OVER $100 This month is $75.
Lucky you. We live in the northeast.
Yes, rural area about 30 minutes north of Fort Dodge.
Ah, you must have several daughters. I know the feeling. Had two daughters myself and the key to MY happiness and peace of mind was keeping them and their mother comfortable.
My energy bills are close to $400 in winter and $500 in summer. That is with gas heat, electric A/C and one frig. Thanks to PG&E incompetence and environmental mandates, Kalifornia utility prices are only going higher. $1000 a month barely covers my property tax
(SNL, when it was still funny,)
I remember the 1970s!
😜
Generally speaking, rural electric is more expensive than in town since they may run miles of poles/lines to a handful of homes.
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