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January 15, 2021
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Governor Larry Hogan has announced $30 million in awards for more than 90 live music and performance venues, live entertainment promoters, and independently-owned local movie theaters whose operations have been impacted by COVID-19.
These awards were made to 49 for-profit or non-profit live entertainment venues in 12 counties and Baltimore City, including nightclubs, theaters, and arenas. In addition, 27 independently-owned movie theaters in 11 counties and Baltimore City and 16 live entertainment promoters.
We’re told these funds will support operating and capital costs and will directly help preserve more than 800 jobs at venues such as the Maryland Renaissance Festival, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Rams Head Live, Royal Farms Aera, Strathmore, the Senator Theatre, and the Maryland Theatre.
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Brian Smith as vice president, human resources and inclusion.
Smith comes to the BSO from the Enterprise Community Foundation in Washington and assumed his new duties Jan. 11.
Smith will administer HR policies, programs, procedures, and guidelines to help foster, support, and engage the BSO’s workforce in alignment with our strategic plan and its four tenets of Culture, Capital, Capacity, and Community. Smith will provide innovative leadership and management oversight to promote, champion, and sustain equity and inclusion at the BSO – developing institutional policies, practices, and programs that both increase racial literacy and cultural responsiveness among BSO employees, as well as respect, value, and respond to the needs of our greater community. He will serve as a dedicated co-chair of a staff Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) workgroup, working closely with other rotating staff leadership, and as a member of a recently formed DEI Committee of the Board.
The federal Paycheck Protection Program reopens Monday for a new round of loans that includes funds set aside for smaller businesses in low- and moderate-income communities and give first priority to community lenders.