Oh trust me, I'm well aware of the effect that COVID had on the performing arts. Fortunately, I make most of my living teaching, but my wife lost all of her work for nearly a year and a half with the exception of a few online performances.

When I mention a creative community, I'm talking less about things happening and more about making things happen. Getting together with other people in the arts, coming up with ideas, and figuring out how to make it happen, no matter how crazy. Or just having a community to bounce ideas around or talk about things. A sort of informal creative think tank that happens naturally, and sometimes randomly. I haven't been able to find such a thing in Philly.