lestrade-london replied to your post “This is a minor consideration in the scheme of things and not a...”
What happened last time, in 1918? There must be some info on how things opened up again.
Honestly, a couple of times I’ve gone looking for books or articles about recovery from the pandemic and I haven’t really found much. Part of it is I wasn’t looking SUPER hard; part that I no longer have the extended access to a lot of databases I did, like EBSCOhost and Jstor; part that everyone’s writing so much about what happened IN the pandemic that it’s hard to find signal in all the noise. But it’s very rare to read about pandemic recovery. The last you really see of casual, easily-found scholarship about it is the climax of it.
mr-chatterboxs-column replied to your post “This is a minor consideration in the scheme of things and not a...”
This is so huge, yeah. I know some things can be scaled down or done in a social distancing way (e.g., my orchestra is doing chamber music instead, my circus studio isn't performing but is doing ultra-small no-hands-on-spotting classes), but entire communal art forms are just... impossible, currently. Normally most of my artistic income (as a vague measure of value) is from playing fiddle in established or pickup bands for social folk dancing, and one of my main hobbies is swing dancing. They're both off the table in their most integrated forms, indefinitely. As a musicologist I was already stressed about the trend of modern society towards a performer/observer dichotomy instead of intuitive integration of tiers of participation, and that's speeding up dramatically
Though that might be an interesting key to recovery -- interactive arts and interaction with arts. Broadening that binary back out from performer/observer would be a really good way of reintegrating everyone post-covid, without the risky crush of stuff like massive concerts. Which at least puts one at a starting point in terms of “What could I make happen.”
fruitgoat replied to your post “This is a minor consideration in the scheme of things and not a...”
I’ve been thinking a lot about this as well. I’ve got a few underdeveloped ideas that I’ll probably be writing about in the next week or so.
When you do, if you remember, please tag me! I’d love to see your ideas.
kneesntoess replied to your post “This is a minor consideration in the scheme of things and not a...”
we went to a drive through cinema (which are not really a thing in the uk) and that was so much fun, tbh. esp because it was lion king, so there was lots of singing and dancing
Yeah, there’s been some of those in the US (they haven’t really been a thing here since the 80s, although they never vanished entirely). I was thinking about those but while they’ve had a revival they still haven’t quite “caught on” the way I would have thought they might.
bomberqueen17 replied to your post “This is a minor consideration in the scheme of things and not a...”
bail out all the lil museums and historical societies and historic sites and roadside attractions :( just a lil slush fund for all the Priceless Little Bits Of Local Color that will be gone forever
I actually really like the idea of pop-up “roadside” attractions and museums. I wonder if there’s a way to make that function. (I mean also yes, funding small entertainment business and nonprofits is also something we should definitely do, but I wish I could do more than throw money at it.)
