In her budget for the upcoming 2025-2026 fiscal year, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava proposes a 50% cut to grants funding to artists and arts organizations, as part of a plan to merge the department of Cultural Affairs into the Library Department. 

This proposal would strip cultural funding, eliminate expert leadership dedicated to the arts, and put hundreds of small and mid-sized arts organizations at risk. This isn’t just about budgets-it’s about lives, livelihoods, and the identity of our community.

It isn't just about budgets -- it's about our community. Miami-Dade’s cultural sector generates over $2.1 billion in economic impact, supports 32,000 local jobs, attracts 22 million people as cultural tourists, and supports over 1000 arts groups.

1. Email the Mayor at mayor@miamidade.gov.

2. Find and contact your county commissioner. 

3. Share your story on how the arts impact your life and how this funding loss will impact you -- as a working theatre artist or theatre patron or loved one of a child in a theatre program. 

4. Sign up for updates from the Arts Action Alliance of Miami-Dade. 

5. Show up to budget hearings: Sept 4 & Sept 18, 111 NW 1st St, Miami.