Audience hesitancy is Omicron’s new curse

Omicron has increased audience hesitancy around attending arts events, but is change in sight?

20 Jan 2022

Celina Lei

All Arts

Will the fog soon clear for live performance? Image: Martin de Arriba via Unsplash.

For the past two years the arts sector has ridden the highs and lows of COVID-19, but once again the industry is facing a crisis due to the new Omicron variant.

Within the past two weeks ArtsHub has reported outbreaks in the performing arts, the impact of RAT shortages and events threatened by staff shortages among funding and mental health concerns.

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Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.