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Philanthropic Phriday 45: PAL Ottawa
Jan. 22nd, 2021 09:41 amIf there's one thing that has kept us sane during these long days of lockdown, I think it would have to be the arts, whether literary, visual, musical, dramatic or whatever. Sadly, there are very few artists who can pursue their passion full time and still make a decent living. So this week's donation goes to PAL Ottawa, which strives to make life a little easier for starving and struggling artists through a variety of interesting and innovative programs:
https://palottawa.org/
Back when I was just venturing out into the adult world, many futurists were predicting that the coming decades would be the age of leisure and that the most promising and even lucrative of emerging careers would be in the artistic and recreational fields: culture, education, tourism, sports and so on. So what became of that?
At the moment, most of those pursuits have come to a screeching halt. And as for leisure? Some of us are lucky enough to have it or even to have too MUCH time on their hands. But for most young working families struggling to home-school their kids and sandwich-generation people worrying about their elders in retirement homes and long-term care, the leisure society is nothing but a distant dream.
The mental health crisis is running in parallel with the Covid-19 crisis. But participating in and supporting the arts may help to promote a degree of herd immunity.
https://palottawa.org/
Back when I was just venturing out into the adult world, many futurists were predicting that the coming decades would be the age of leisure and that the most promising and even lucrative of emerging careers would be in the artistic and recreational fields: culture, education, tourism, sports and so on. So what became of that?
At the moment, most of those pursuits have come to a screeching halt. And as for leisure? Some of us are lucky enough to have it or even to have too MUCH time on their hands. But for most young working families struggling to home-school their kids and sandwich-generation people worrying about their elders in retirement homes and long-term care, the leisure society is nothing but a distant dream.
The mental health crisis is running in parallel with the Covid-19 crisis. But participating in and supporting the arts may help to promote a degree of herd immunity.
