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  • Arts Space Needs Assessment Survey

  • The City of Somerville is conducting a survey to better understand the current arts space landscape and identify any gaps or unmet needs. Your responses will help shape City policies, guide arts-related programs, and ensure that City-owned spaces like the Armory, as well as community-responsive arts initiatives like SomArt, are meeting community needs. The results may also inform developers and property managers on how to meet their Arts and Creative Enterprise requirements.

    We want to hear from everyone in the arts ecosystem—from individual artists to large arts organizations—working and creating art in the Boston-Cambridge-Somerville area.

    To keep the data accurate, we ask that each organization (such as a business, nonprofit, or collective) designate one representative to complete the survey. Individual artists should respond based on their own space needs.

    If you wear multiple hats—for example, as both an individual artist and a representative of an organization—please choose one perspective for your first response, and consider submitting a second response for the other.

    Your participation is voluntary. This survey should take 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Please provide your input by Friday, August 29, 2025. Thank you!

     

    The City of Somerville can translate this document into your language for free. To request a translated copy, please contact the Somerville Office of Immigrant Affairs at soia@somervillema.gov or call 311 (617-666-3311).

    La alcaldía de Somerville puede traducir gratis este documento en su idioma. Para solicitar una copia traducida, comuníquese con la Somerville Office of Immigrant Affairs (Oficina de asuntos de inmigrantes de Somerville) a soia@somervillema.gov o llame al 311 (617-666-3311).

    A Cidade de Somerville pode traduzir este documento gratuitamente para o seu idioma. Para solicitar uma cópia traduzida, por favor, entre em contato com o Escritório para Assuntos de Imigrantes de Somerville, pelo e-mail soia@somervillema.gov ou pelo telefone 311 (617-666-3311).

    Vil Somerville kapab tradui dokiman sa anan lang ou gratis. Pou mande yon kopi ki tradui, tanpri kontakte Biwo zafè Imigran Somerville la nan soia@somervillema.gov oswa rele nan 311 (617-666-3311).

    Somerville नगरले यो कागजात तपाईंको भाषामा नि:शुल्क अनुवाद गर्न सक्छ । अनुदित प्रति अनुरोध गर्न, कृपया soia@Somervillema.gov मा इमेल गरी Somerville आप्रवासी मामिला कार्यालयलाई सम्पर्क गर्नुहोस् वा 311 (617-666-3311) मा कल गर्नुहोस् ।

    薩默維爾市可免費提供本文件的翻譯版本。如需索取翻譯副本,請聯絡薩默維爾移民事務辦事處 (Somerville Office of Immigrant Affairs) ,電郵至 soia@somervillema.gov,或致電 311(617-666-3311)。

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  • Background Information

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  • Frequent Space Needs

    Please answer the following questions about space you use frequently—that is, weekly or more frequently, for most of the year. This includes weekly rehearsal space, dedicated studio space, etc.
  • Please answer the following questions about your current frequent space use.

  • Please answer the following questions about your potential frequent space use.

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  • Infrequent Space Needs

    Please answer the following questions about space you use infrequently—that is, less frequently than weekly, or for a small part of the year. This includes monthly workshop space, quarterly performance space, one-off project space, etc.
  • Please answer the following questions about your current infrequent space use.

  • Please answer the following questions about your potential infrequent space use.

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  • Demographics

  • Please answer the following questions about yourself, even if you are representing an organization. Demographic questions help us understand how well our sample reflects the diverse perspectives of the community.

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  • OPTIONAL: Are you willing to be contacted by the City of Somerville about this topic in the future?

    If yes, please enter your information below. Your contact information will only be used for this purpose.

    If no, leave this section blank.

  • OPTIONAL: The organization Creative Action Boston is planning to conduct a census of Dance and Movement Arts artists in the Greater Boston area. They're interested in having access to individual responses to this survey so they can follow up with more specific questions particular to the Dance community. Are you willing for your responses to be shared with this organization?

    If yes, please enter your information below. Your contact information will only be used for the purpose of sharing your responses with Creative Action.

    If no, leave this section blank. Creative Action will be able to see aggregated results from this survey but will not be given your individual information. 

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