AES Seeks Funding to Survive Pandemic

The Audio Engineering Society launched an effort to raise $500,000 by June 1 to sustain the organization through the pandemic. Its next big convention is scheduled for Oct. 21-24, collocated for two days with NAB Show New York at the Javits Convention Center, which currently is a COVID-19 Army field hospital. The May 25-28 and July 23-25 events are canceled. AES isn't “immune to the havoc the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking,” said the society Thursday. It draws its “traditional cashflow” from events, and those have been “severely disrupted,” it said. President Agnieszka Roginska asked, “If it is within your ability, may we ask that you make a financial contribution to help see your AES through these unprecedented times?"