LasVegas Artists Relief Fund Amid Covid19
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The Music Industry has held and nurtured me for years. Those of us in the music community and those of us who are close to the artists - musicians know the financial pressures that have long been increasing for those in the arts - especially for artists of color.
Las Vegas has so far been the city hardest hit by the COVID-19 . The most beautiful city in the World in Entertainment with music live performances, shows, venues, events, concerts, and tourists. This scary and tragic time has a lot of people staying close to home in order to try to help prevent the spread of this virus that can be devastating to our elderly, disabled, and medically compromised friends and neighbors.
The widespread cancellation of group events has had a disproportionate impact on artists and musicians - especially those who rely on gigs to pay their bills. Creatives are people whose very existence relies on what they create and people being able to access their work.
Performers on payrolls have suffered. Musicians, DJ’s, independent chefs, caterers, actors, directors, writers, spoken word artists, managers of artists, all of these people's jobs rely on people showing up for events but events are being canceled.
It's important and critical for me to raise this money in the pandemic time. Thinking about artists and musicians who can't perform to make money for a living.
But however they need money to pay studio time, acquire an instrument, get people to play some instrument/ vocal track, rent, and basic living.
Making music is not easy, musicians buy instruments that cost hundreds- thousand of dollars. They don't come up with good tracks overnight.
Many live performers have looked for new ways to pursue their art, turning to video, streaming, and other platforms.
Today artists are paid $ 0.00402 per stream. 366,169 streams per month are required to even hit minimum wage ($1472). Even very well established artists make off all.
If you create something, you deserve to be paid for it.
A large percentage of artists supplement their incomes with part-time jobs often in the service industry which is another industry that is being hit hard.
So if you love Las Vegas art and shows, concerts, music and you have the resources to, please consider pitching into our relief fund.
This fund is aimed at helping those in the greater Las Vegas arts community who have been financially impacted by cancellations due to COVID-19. Depending on funding levels and amount of requests, priority may be given to artists that have been historically and systemically economically disadvantaged in Las Vegas Area: Street artists, bar artists and musicians - but we will try to help as many artists with need in Nevada as we can as long as we have funds and are not currently turning away any Las Vegas Area artists who meet the simple criteria (living in the Vegas area and the US have gig/event/work cancellation in the arts, have fully completed the application). We will basically keep going until we run out of money or this crisis ends - whichever comes sooner.
Where your funds go: 100% of these funds will go to artists who have lost income due to cancellations and work stoppage due to the COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment.
This is emergency funding to help artists in need with rent, food, utilities, and medical needs. The amount given to each artist is determined based on how many funds we receive, how much artists have lost due to cancellations, and how many artists apply. We use these factors to calculate what percentage of each individual request we can pay each artist. We are currently giving a minimum of $100 and a maximum of $1000 to each individual artist.
How Funds will get to Artists: We will send funds to the mailing address, PayPal or Zelle indicated in the application.
We've partnered with WORLDKLEOSTAR LLC Talent Entertainment Company & social media profile: https://www.facebook.com/worldkleostar
WORLDKLEOSTAR is a Talent Entertainment Company based in Las Vegas, NV and if you are interested in making a larger, donation to our fund, please use this link:
Donate https://worldkleostar.com/ directly to WORLDKLEOSTAR and put "Vegas & National Artists Relief Fund" or "LVNARF" in the notes.
Send out payments in a timely and organized matter and to serve as accountability.
We have suspended applications for funds as of now, in order to make sure we can meet the needs of the 1,200 people who have already applied for assistance. We are actively working to be able to meet these needs and raise enough to be able to open applications.
If you are an artist in need of funds, we have a waiting list you can join on our website.
We can get through this together.
Las Vegas has so far been the city hardest hit by the COVID-19 . The most beautiful city in the World in Entertainment with music live performances, shows, venues, events, concerts, and tourists. This scary and tragic time has a lot of people staying close to home in order to try to help prevent the spread of this virus that can be devastating to our elderly, disabled, and medically compromised friends and neighbors.
The widespread cancellation of group events has had a disproportionate impact on artists and musicians - especially those who rely on gigs to pay their bills. Creatives are people whose very existence relies on what they create and people being able to access their work.
Performers on payrolls have suffered. Musicians, DJ’s, independent chefs, caterers, actors, directors, writers, spoken word artists, managers of artists, all of these people's jobs rely on people showing up for events but events are being canceled.
It's important and critical for me to raise this money in the pandemic time. Thinking about artists and musicians who can't perform to make money for a living.
But however they need money to pay studio time, acquire an instrument, get people to play some instrument/ vocal track, rent, and basic living.
Making music is not easy, musicians buy instruments that cost hundreds- thousand of dollars. They don't come up with good tracks overnight.
Many live performers have looked for new ways to pursue their art, turning to video, streaming, and other platforms.
Today artists are paid $ 0.00402 per stream. 366,169 streams per month are required to even hit minimum wage ($1472). Even very well established artists make off all.
If you create something, you deserve to be paid for it.
A large percentage of artists supplement their incomes with part-time jobs often in the service industry which is another industry that is being hit hard.
So if you love Las Vegas art and shows, concerts, music and you have the resources to, please consider pitching into our relief fund.
This fund is aimed at helping those in the greater Las Vegas arts community who have been financially impacted by cancellations due to COVID-19. Depending on funding levels and amount of requests, priority may be given to artists that have been historically and systemically economically disadvantaged in Las Vegas Area: Street artists, bar artists and musicians - but we will try to help as many artists with need in Nevada as we can as long as we have funds and are not currently turning away any Las Vegas Area artists who meet the simple criteria (living in the Vegas area and the US have gig/event/work cancellation in the arts, have fully completed the application). We will basically keep going until we run out of money or this crisis ends - whichever comes sooner.
Where your funds go: 100% of these funds will go to artists who have lost income due to cancellations and work stoppage due to the COVID-19 pandemic and unemployment.
This is emergency funding to help artists in need with rent, food, utilities, and medical needs. The amount given to each artist is determined based on how many funds we receive, how much artists have lost due to cancellations, and how many artists apply. We use these factors to calculate what percentage of each individual request we can pay each artist. We are currently giving a minimum of $100 and a maximum of $1000 to each individual artist.
How Funds will get to Artists: We will send funds to the mailing address, PayPal or Zelle indicated in the application.
We've partnered with WORLDKLEOSTAR LLC Talent Entertainment Company & social media profile: https://www.facebook.com/worldkleostar
WORLDKLEOSTAR is a Talent Entertainment Company based in Las Vegas, NV and if you are interested in making a larger, donation to our fund, please use this link:
Donate https://worldkleostar.com/ directly to WORLDKLEOSTAR and put "Vegas & National Artists Relief Fund" or "LVNARF" in the notes.
Send out payments in a timely and organized matter and to serve as accountability.
We have suspended applications for funds as of now, in order to make sure we can meet the needs of the 1,200 people who have already applied for assistance. We are actively working to be able to meet these needs and raise enough to be able to open applications.
If you are an artist in need of funds, we have a waiting list you can join on our website.
We can get through this together.
Organizer
Eva Fernandez
Organizer
Las Vegas, NV
