Link: https://www.thinkarts.co.in/ 

ThinkArts organised online capacity building masterclasses that were conducted by colleagues around the world (educators and theatre practitioners). This helped to break the boundaries as more international conversations happened. ThinkArts also raised funds for artists to create content.

Link: https://zerommfest.com/funding/

The Little Art, through their initiative “Zero mm Youth Film Festival Southasia”, offer small production grants for Pakistani filmmakers. Proposals can be sent by anyone above 18 years old, and they must engage young people under 25 years old in key roles during the production. Projects should align with the following themes: gender-based discrimination, women and girls’ education, violence against women and girls, child abuse, and harassment. The grant is available for production and post-production stages and the ceiling of the grant is 100,000 PKR for each project.

Link: https://www.jazzcoalition.org/

Jazz Coalition was established during the Covid-19 pandemic as a response to the lack of opportunities for jazz musicians to perform live. The coalition funding comes from membership contributions from anyone that joins as a member. All industry professionals, musicians, and supporters from across the globe are invited to join and they are directly involved in the commission funds’ distribution through voting. Members are invited to nominate fellow members for the fund and a jury of their peers will decide who are the final recipients. All selected recipients receive $1000 in commission grants to create new work. Once live performance is available, recipients will get the possibility of premiering at Jazz Coalition member venues.

Link: https://trickleupnyc.org/ 

Inspired by the artist-on-behalf-of-artists activism of Elizabeth Swados, a coalition of over 50 New York City artists established a membership-based network for presenting and distributing content made by artists affected from the Covid-19 shutdown. Subscribers pay a monthly fee of $10 for getting access to the platform. In return, every time the organisation reaches $10.000, they hire a new artist to produce content for the platform through a commission system.

Link: https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/On-Stage/Homebound/Homebound 

Homebound is an original web series that explores life under Stay-At-Home orders in Washington, D.C. Local playwrights, actors, and designers were hired to create this series of 10-minute episodes.

Link: https://www.playathome.org/ 

Theaters from around the U.S. - Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Public Theater, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company - commissioned short plays that are meant to be read and enjoyed at home.

Link: https://theclarice.umd.edu/

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland, College Park was able to give a portion of the original fee for artists whose Spring 2020 performances were canceled. Artists instead provided online content for university students and the local community.

Link: https://www.tanzmesse.com/en/programme/2020/

Fukuyo’s dance company Baobab offered showcasing opportunities for local dancers by sharing videos with an international platform during Tanzmesse 2020. Tanzmesse is a German Performing Arts festival that takes place in Köln, and, through the previous link, it is possible to access their activity’s archive.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/MentalwellbeingwithPF/ 

Started with calling 5 artists per day to check out on the artists, followed by digital pages on Facebook and Instagram and getting a free counselling session for the artists. However, due to the society stigma on seeing a psychiatrist, the Foundation started to conduct monthly workshops for fellow artists to be peer support. Amongst the topics worked upon is suicide prevention.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/unidxsporlamusica/?hl=en

Unidxs por la Música Jazz Coalition was established during the Covid-19 pandemic as a unique opportunity for participating on an auction with donated articles from musicians and artists. The goal was to raise funds to support 500 performing art workers and families given the impact of live performance cancellation and limitation. The initiative was up for 210 days and managed to distribute 500 families with basic meal kits in 30 cities across Argentina. A total of 34.689 kg of food were donated divided in 3.500 deliveries all throughout 2020.

Link: https://conexaomusica.com.br/ 

Given the uncertainty surrounding the suspension of live music performances due to Covid-19, all professionals who work in said events experimented a precarious situation regarding income security. As such, the platform created a questionnaire where those who had resources could offer a collaboration and those who were in need of help could sign up as beneficiaries. Throughout its short active period (2020-2021), the organisation raised a total of Rs. 89.927,25 that benefited 348 music professionals through two actions. The first action was emergency fund distribution and gave 173 professionals a collaboration of Rs. 450 per professional throughout the months of April 2020 and March 2021. The second action included 175 beneficiaries of a basic needs basket which contained food and personal hygiene items.

Link: http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202005/09/WS5eb61161a310a8b2411546ea_1.html 

A producer, Li Ge who stuck in his hometown in China helped the villagers to create an online platform to sell their products - cherry when we can’t have Cherry Orchard on the stage. This bridged the gap between the city and marginalized community. This was later joined by Beijing Gu Lou Xi Theatre