Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon reports on the latest ways the National Endowment for the Arts has found to waste your money.
The National Endowment for the Arts is funding a progressive rendition of Pride and Prejudice, a choreographed traffic jam, and a play about climate change causing the end of the world.
Aside from spending $20,000 on a musical about a lesbian illegal immigrant in love with an ICE agent and giving $100,000 to the theater company that put on a Trump assassination play, the NEA’s list of new grants includes numerous frivolous art projects.
Numerous grants are dedicated to the issue of climate change. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts received $60,000 for performances and workshops on climate change and a curriculum for public schools on “food justice.”
A $10,000 grant went to the San Francisco Green Film Festival, a county in Florida received $50,000 for artists to design rain gardens.
The California Shakespeare Theater in Berkeley received $25,000 for an opera based on the science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, which imagines a dystopian future because of global warming.
“Chronicling the spiritual awakening of a future America grappling with the effects of climate change, ‘Parable’ is told in the form of a ritual song cycle informed by African-American spiritualism,” according to the grant.
The adaptation offers “deep insights on gender, race, and the future of human civilization.”
A dance performance by custodial workers is costing taxpayers $20,000.
