Black Lives Matter. 

Black Lives Matter.

Ars Nova recognizes that we operate within systemic racism, and that neutrality and silence only feeds it further. We are committed to the work of anti-racism and anti-oppression in our organization, in our lives and in our art. We know that we have just begun this work and that there is much yet for us to learn and to do. We hold ourselves accountable for working to dismantle the systemic racism, oppression and violence that permeates our country and our industry.

Below are just a few of the funds to which our staff have donated over the past several days. Today, we ask you to consider joining us in supporting these or others that are dedicated to social justice, if you are able:

• Black Visions Collective
• The Bronx Freedom Fund
• Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
• Campaign Zero
• Color of Change
• The Conscious Kid
• Dignity and Power Now
• Emergency Release Fund/ Community Justice Exchange 
• Equality for Flatbush 
• Liberty Fund NYC
• Louisville Community Bail Fund
• Minnesota Freedom Fund
• NAACP's Legal Defense Fund 
• North Star Health Collective
• Philadelphia Bail Fund 
• Reclaim The Block
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Transgender Law Center (in Memory of Tony McDade)
• WFPC Mutual Aid Fund

We also continue our work by:

• Using our platform to amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, People of Color artists;
• Identifying, confronting and addressing the barriers to attendance that keep BIPOC audiences mostly out of our spaces;
• Calling on the white people within our community to acknowledge their own racism, decenter themselves, and actively engage in anti-racist practices;
• Committing to our continued education as individuals and as an organization so that we can uproot the system of racism on which we are built.

We stand in solidarity. We hope you will join us.

The Staff & Board Leadership of Ars Nova

Updated May 31, 2020.