We Need Your Help! Dear Mr President and Madam Vice President: Historic Letter Writing Campaign
Be An #ArtsHero
Pick up your pen: be an #artshero
The story of our nation is in critical condition. It needs big ideas. It needs bold vision. It needs a critical mass of voices going to where the silence is, making the invisible, visible — and the impossible, roar to life. That is why Be An #ArtsHero and The Dramatists Guild of America are calling on you to incite a monumental reimagining and help steer a crucial course redirection in 2021.
The letter-writing campaign is ongoing. We will encourage you to post your letters to social media, using the hashtags #ArtsWorkersUnite, #First100Days, and tag @JoeBiden, @KamalaHarris, @WhiteHouse, @BeAnArtsHero, and @DramatistsGuild.
In partnership with The Dramatists Guild of America
Together, we invite you to a historic letter-writing initiative titled "Dear Mr President and Madam Vice President" urging the incoming Biden Administration to make Arts & Culture Workers a legislative priority.
Your letter should chronicle your hopes, dreams, and vision for what America can become with the arrival of a new administration.
To that end, we are providing a simple but valuable toolkit of resources and data demonstrating the colossal socio-economic impact of our sector, which is valued at more than $877 billion (more than Agriculture and Mining, combined).
Your letter may include a message about current relief and recovery policies as detailed in the toolkit.
Additionally, your letter may insist on the importance of establishing a Department and Secretary of Arts & Culture. More than anything, we ask you to wordsmith a letter you believe the new administration most needs to read, in order to best write this next chapter and meet this pivotal and unprecedented moment in American history.