On April 30, Arts for LA’s Executive Director Danielle Brazell issued a letter to the Honorable Mr. Paul Krekorian, chair of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Los Angeles City Council.  The full text of the letter follows.  Arts for LA will continue to monitor the city's budget process and update our advocates on its status whenever possible.

April 30, 2014

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) invites you to attend a public meeting that will provide an update on the Broadway Arts Center, a planned facility providing subsidized affordable artists' housing, rehearsal/exhibition space, and creative business space as part of City Councilmember José Huizar's Bringing Back Broadway initiative.

The project team behind the Broadway Arts Center, a proposed mixed-use artistic space in downtown Los Angeles, has released a Preliminary Feasibility Study.  The study includes a site analysis, results of interviews with local stakeholders and a community impact overview.  The Broadway Arts Center (BAC), ac

Last year, Arts:Earth Partnership (AEP) was engaged by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to conduct sustainability assessments on all city-owned cultural facilities.  That contract has resulted in changes to the City's purchasing practices and other sustainable changes that wil

Jay McAdams on why he recently provided public testimony at City Hall in support of the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

The Department of Cultural Affairs for the City of LA presented the proposed 2011-2012 departmental budget to the Budget & Finance Committe on April 29th, 2011.  The Committee also heard public testimony from several stakeholders expressing support for the Department's activities and programs.