Hello Everybody! I forgot to tell you that the Contributor's List will be a combined list for 2020 and 2021. So if you donated in 2020 your name or organization will stay on the list through January of 2022. New contributors for 2021 who were not formerly on the list will be added to the existing list from 2021. Here is a link to the Contributor's List <http://www.fredsternfeld.com/neohiopal/northeast-ohio-performing-arts-list-contributors/> . Fred ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Fred Sternfeld <fredsternfeld@neohiopal.org> Date: Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:53 PM Subject: an important message about the effect of the Pandemic on our community To: <post@neohiopal.org> Dear Neohiopal Subscribers, The last year has been difficult for everyone - both personally and professionally. As individual artists we have seen our work dry up. Whether we depend upon performing arts opportunities for our income, or whether it serves as an avocation - the hole it has created in our lives runs deep. For many arts organizations the loss of creating and presenting in person events has created a crisis that puts your very existence in jeopardy. You have bravely created many online opportunities for education and performance, while struggling to figure out how to economically maintain your staff and facility. The good news is that with the arrival of vaccines the end is in sight. When will we be able to normalize again? Projections run from the middle of this year to the beginning of 2022, but no one really knows for sure. With this (hopefully) once in a century pause in our work, Neohiopal has delayed the start of our usual January campaign for donations. We will start the campaign in February. It will be different this year. Rather than post several times a week for a month there will be only two posts. Once on February 1st and once on February 28th. With the hardships you are all in the middle of - no worries at all if you need to skip your donation this year. Stay safe. Warm Regards, Fred Sternfeld, Owner and Administrator Noah Budin, Associate Administrator Daniel Alpern, Associate Administrator Conrad Yoder, Webmaster fredsternfeld@neohiopal.org http://www.fredsternfeld.com/neohiopal/ -- Fred Sternfeld Neohiopal Ltd. Owner and Administrator fredsternfeld@neohiopal.org http://www.fredsternfeld.com/neohiopal/