The decision means the participants are entitled to all the benefits of a full employment contract, including a 35-hour week.
Tag: 06.05.09
Atlanta Arts Funder Launches “Recovery” Fund To Help Arts In Recession
“We now feel small and medium-size arts organizations need additional funding to stay afloat because they have no endowments of their own or a financial cushion.”
New Research: Ukraine Was Extensively Looted In WWII
“According to Serhii Kot, a scholar at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, during World War II Ukraine lost a “colossal amount of cultural valuables”, on a scale unheard of since the Mongols invaded the country in the early 13th century.”
New York Philharmonic Iron Man – Clarinetist Steps Down After 60 Years
Stanley Drucker, 80, will “soon enter something bigger than folklore. Legend maybe? History? He is retiring from the Philharmonic after 60 years, the longest tenure of any player in the orchestra’s existence. His departure foreshadows another changing of the guard: the music director, Lorin Maazel, also ends his tenure this season.”
NY Arena Developer Drops Gehry Design – It’s Too Expensive
Citing financial concerns, the developer of the long-delayed Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn has scrapped plans for a Frank Gehry-designed $1 billion glass-walled basketball arena for the Nets in favor of a less expensive arena.
David Carradine, 72, Found Hanged In Bangkok
“As an actor, and possibly as a human being, David Carradine was a walking yin-yang symbol, a bundle of opposites tightly stitched together.”
Ballet BC Parts Ways With Artistic Director John Alleyne
“[H]e and the Ballet BC board came to a joint decision not to renew his contract when it ends June 30. Questions remain about the terms under which he is leaving, including whether he’ll receive a severance payout. The decision is part of a major restructuring plan that will leave the province without its flagship dance company during the 2010 Olympic Games.”