Bridges Between Us

There needs to be concerted and continuous efforts to encourage, support, and sustain the actions and activities of individuals and groups to create, express, and/or disseminate works of arts and culture (including visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, media arts) that uphold and advance the principles associated with social progress.

Works of art and culture do not always need to have direct political or economic context or content, but they should not mis-represent or distort reality. A principal function of art and culture is to make life more enjoyable, even more worth living. And by such, it sublimely fuels the actions of activities that advance social progress, as long as the works of art and culture are not contradictory to principles that uphold progress. Works of art and culture not only can but should occupy places along the entire spans from the sublime to the ludicrous and from the focus of public enjoyment to inspiration to calls-to-action.

Efforts to encourage, support, and sustain the art and culture that uphold and advance social progress include monitory and in-kind assistance from individuals, organizations, foundations, and the government, legal protections and the enforcement of such protections, support and protective assistance from social institutions including the press, and the engagement and interaction between the public and those involved in producing and/or disseminating the art the works of culture.

References that likely support these ideas: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19c_N11mGxn7sqNYYFTFyckNf3Q-Hm3bc/view?usp=sharing