Launched in April of 2020, the NCTA staff, in direct response to and in concern of the impacts (health, fiscal, creative and more) the COVID-19 pandemic was having on the Folk and Traditional Arts landscape, decided to use its social media platforms to offer daily posts and resharing of information to highlight the various business sustainability, arts grants, emergency responses and more being made available to the creative sector at large. Since its launch, the RARRA campaign has grown to include monthly newsletters (a digest and post highlights of the RARRA postings), expanded it’s scope of posting content to include not just emergency funding, but also a variety of opportunities and outlets that are conducive to resilience for the arts sector and reframing systemic issues pertaining to access, equity and representation.
RARRA is a proud stepping stone for NCTA’s ongoing and expanding efforts focused on serving and connecting with the diverse folk arts practitioners, culture bearers and festival leaders in the country.
Please visit their website to also use the Power BI platform which provides a way to navigate (in real time) through RARRA's date history.
To the results of 16 months of RARRA postings (March 2020 - July 2021), click here. Additionally, visit this page here if you want to see the entire history of RARRA in Google Sheets format.
If you know of an event, a listing or information that would make a great RARRA listing, please fill out this form providing the links and relevant information.
Interested in learning more about RARRA? Then contact: rarra@ncta-usa.org
Posts are listed Monday-Friday on NCTA’s Twitter and Facebook pages.
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