Arts

While the coronavirus pandemic has kept performers from appearing in front of live audiences, nixing many large fundraisers, nonprofit groups are forging ahead raising money and looking forward as best they can.

Four Longmont and Boulder County artists have found different ways to weather the COVID storm. As Cindi Yaklich said when she described her still life of lemons: “I guess you have to make lemonade.” 

Today’s installment of the concert series will feature the Symphony quintet and a talk on mental health, social stigma and discrimination by Tim Arnold, program manager for the Ready to Work Program at Bridge House.

LDDA launches contest for free, private concert with Face Vocal Band.

Want to lend a hand in ArtWalkSummer On the Streets events? The Firehouse Art Center is seeking volunteers.

 Surrounding businesses are doing their best to adjust and stay open, but performing groups Centennial State Ballet, Jesters Dinner Theatre and Longmont Theatre Company have remained closed since mid-March.

Like everyone else, artists have been challenged by new conditions and routines since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I am filled with sadness that we have had to pause the exceptional growth that we have enjoyed,” Music Director Elliot Moore said in an email. “That said, we are committed to lifting up our community through music, and are finding new and creative ways to do this.”

“We know that this announcement will come as an enormous disappointment, not only to our audience but also to our singers and the Longmont community,” the nonprofit announced in a Wednesday email signed by President Bob Balsam.

As plans are being firmed up for a Longmont chalk art festival in September, would-be artists and young neighborhood Picassos can turn to a 14-year-old girl in Illinois for a bit of early inspiration.