The Arts and Culture Venues Coalition is an assemblage of arts and culture facilities and organizations from across Georgia who have come together to help protect the cultural treasures and civil assets of our communities.

Casinos restrict local venues’ access to talent and entertainment by imposing The Issue crippling clauses

Casinos use live entertainment simply as a Exclusivity Clause talent can only perform at loss leader facilities owned by the casino to draw people to the gaming floor and generate gaming receipts Radius Clause talent cannot perform within a This impacts a local venue’s ability to certain distance of the casino book talent and drives up the price Duration Clause talent cannot return to the consumers pay market for a specified period

For venues, talent and entertainment What about ticket sales? is critical because it drives ancillary income

Without casinos, Georgia venues operate within the same free market and compete for talent and customers on a level playing field Casino-owned entertainment facilities will upend this system

The only provision that is sure to protect and The preserve our valued community assets is to prohibit casinos from owning or Solution operating entertainment facilities Georgia Arts and Culture Dublin Venues Coalition Members Theatre Dublin Americus Duluth Rylander Theatre Infinite Energy Center Athens Eatonton Classic Center The Plaza Arts Center Corporation Ellijay Gilmer Arts 7 Stages Gainesville Atlanta Botanical Gardens The Arts Council Pearce Auditorium Cobb Energy Centre Gainesville Garden Fulton County Arts Council Hawkinsville Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund Hawkinsville Opera House South Arts Lithia Springs Variety Playhouse Arts Georgia Mableton Augusta Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre Augusta Amusements Augusta Entertainment Complex Macon Greater Augusta Arts Council Historic Douglass Theatre Imperial Theatre Marietta Miller Theater / Augusta Symphony Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre Brunswick Milledgeville Ritz Theatre Allied Arts Buford Newnan Buford Community Center The Newnan Centre Eagle Theatre Peachtree City Carrollton The Fred Carrollton Center for the Arts Rome Thomasville Waynesboro Columbus Historic Desoto Theatre Thomasville Entertainment Foundation Waynesboro-Burke Concert Series Columbus Civic Center Springfield Toccoa Winterville Columbus CVB Mars Theatre Schaefer Center Winterville Auditorium RiverCenter The Historic Ritz Theatre Statesboro Georgia Presenters Member Conyers Averitt Center for the Arts Vidalia Townsend Center for the Performing Arts, Conyers Rockdale Council for the Arts Performing Arts Center at Georgia PAL Theater Carrollton Dahlonega Southern University Waleska Holly Theatre Community Center Falany Performing Arts Center These venues provide immeasurable benefits to their communities

Civic assets that support Downtown anchors, whose Investment in tourism and economic patrons keep local restaurants taxpayer-owned and development and businesses thriving operated venues

Highly revered Venues that offer Educational and cultural Nonprofit institutions sources of classical music programming for with historical community pride and opera children and seniors significance

October 2019