Creative Sector Legislative Agenda #ARTSTAYSHERE talks with MassCreative’s Executive Director Emily Ruddock & Director of External Relations Kelsey Rode about their current Creative Sector Legislative Agenda, its 4 bills that have moved out of committee & specifically the Creative Space Preservation Act.

In this episode, #ARTSTAYSHERE talks with Annis Sengupta of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) & Greg Jenkins of Somerville Arts Council about their Somerville Arts Risk Assessment work & report, how Somerville’s arts buildings are at high risk of displacement & potential tools to help prevent it.

CBA Summit 101 is NOT a podcast episode. It's a special quick learning about the upcoming Union Square Neighborhood Council's CBA Summits being held in Somerville. Visit www.dontfwithfab.org for summit details. There ARE a handful of podcast episodes regarding Somerville arts spaces, its Fabrication District, ACE Requirements, Somerville Arts Council, MAPC's Art Space Risk Assessment, Union Square Neighborhood Council, Joy Street Studios & more at https://rss.com/podcasts/artstayshere/. Recorded at The Record Co. in Roxbury by Dan Moffat. Edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with Union Square Neighborhood Council (Bill Cavelini, Michele Hansen, Emily Doran & Mattias Rudolph) about the purpose of a neighborhood council, the work they do advocating for the residents & workers of Union Square, including negotiating Community Benefit Agreements with developers. Recorded & edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance Audio & New Alliance East, in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with artists at Joy Street Studios in Somerville (Dan Coughlin, Jason Pollins, Coleen Palencia) about being at risk, potential displacement, and organizing in advance to prepare for what may come. Recorded at The Record Co in Roxbury; edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

This is part 2 on Somerville's Fabrication District. #ARTSTAYSHERE's Ami Bennitt & Ethan Dussault connect the dots on potential changes to different arts communities in Somerville & outline what it means & how artists & arts supporters must join the Don't F with FAB! movement to keep affordable arts workspaces in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE unpacks the issues that impact affordable arts workspace in Somerville, including its Fabrication District, MAPC's Art Risk Assessment, Arts & Creative Enterprise uses/set-asides (ACE), current proposed zoning amendments, potential impact, the importance of activating the arts sector to participate in the community process to have their voices heard. Ami Bennitt interviews Ethan Dussault, co-owner of New Alliance Audio (twice displaced), located at Milk Row Studios in Somerville's Union Square. Recorded by Dan Moffat at The Record Co; edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with Annis Sengupta, Director of Arts & Culture at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) about adding the creative sector to planning, both at the municipal level & regionally; as well as research on the area's cultural spaces & how to act as arts ecosystem. Recorded by Dan Moffat at The Record Co.; edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with Fitchburg Art Museum director Nick Capasso about being a bilingual museum whose mission includes showing New England artists & a deep connection to community & economic development for Downtown Fitchburg, including the incoming Fitchburg Arts Community (FAC) affordable housing development. Just 50 miles northwest of Boston, a once-thriving industrial hotbed turns to investing in artists as seeds of economic health for one gateway city.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with MassCreative, our statewide arts advocacy organization. With Executive Director Emily Ruddock & Director of External Relations Kelsey Rode, we learn about the history of this important agency, its different areas of work & the importance of advocating consistently, not just during election years. Recorded by Dan Moffat at The Record Co., edited by Nick Zampiello, New Alliance East, Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with The Record Co.'s Matt McArthur & Sasha Pedro about getting the interim music rehearsal facility at 55 Morrissey Blvd. ready under extreme pressure, thus providing an almost seamless transition from Brighton to Dorchester.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with Greg Jenkins (Executive Director) & Michael Rosenberg (Arts Development Manager) of Somerville Arts Council about cultural space, Fabrication Zoning, ACE requirements & more. Recorded & edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with Bill Madsen Hardy of New Atlantic Development about preserving Boston-area arts spaces in Jamaica Plain, Fort Point & Dorchester. Recorded by Dan Moffat at The Record Co. Edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with Humphreys Street Studios artist tenants Cristina Todesco, Josh Rose-Wood & Franklin Marval about their 3-year-plus journey to preserve their artist studios in Dorchester, which are now majority artist-owned/operated as affordable artist workspace in perpetuity. Recorded by Dan Moffat at The Record Co. Edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE talks with long-time executive director Jim Grace about the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, the services they provide, and their Creative Campus initiative on creating & preserving cultural space. Recorded by Dan Moffat at The Record Co. Edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE's Ami Bennitt talks with musicians Jesse Vengrove (Glacier/Greylock), Daniel Sussman (Duck & Cover) & Emily Doran (Hammered Saint) from CRS (Charlestown Rehearsal Studios), who, earlier this year were at risk of potential displacement. Recorded & edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE’s Ami Bennitt & Ethan Dussault talk with JJ Gonson, long-time music photographer, concert promoter & advocate. Recorded by Dan Moffat at The Record Co. Friday, August 25, 2023. Edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville.

#ARTSTAYSHERE's Ami Bennitt talks with 119 Braintree Street artists Wayne Strattman, Lisa Lobel (Boston Casting), Kristen Goodfriend & David Jackel (Shave Media) about their impending displacement from their aritst workspaces. Recorded by Dan Moffat at The Record Co. Friday, August 11, 2023. Edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Somerville. Culture Crisis Conversations is in partnership with The Record Co., New Alliance Audio & New Alliance East.

Episode 2, Part 2, continues with #ARTSTAYSHRE in conversation with New Alliance's Alvan Long, Ethan Dussault & Nick Zampiello.

In this second episode, #ARTSTAYSHERE talks with New Alliance Audio's Alvan Long, Ethan Dussault, and New Alliance East's Nick Zampiello about the organic, unique creative community of New Alliance -- from its start in Boston's Fenway, to it's second home at the EMF Building in Cambridge, to its current home in Somerville. Twice displaced, twice rebuilt. Recorded & edited by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East.