Ne artists, creators, performers, authors, authors of the performing arts have learned of the vast economic plan of the Ministry of Economy and Finance which seriously attacks different sectors of our society. However, these sectors represent pillars of our democracy, its capacity for collective intelligence to imagine a livable and dignified future, the importance and quality of its public services, its culture.
This is what makes the identity of French democracy, the influence of its unique model envied throughout the world. This democracy that we have built with cultural democracy through the darkest times, and to which we hold dear as our public body, has a heart: creation. It has vessels: the link, the transmission, the sharing. We know from experience that these are fundamental ramparts against what we must call “fascism” – which progresses when the absence of horizon sets in, when thought retreats, when the imagination closes.
Culture has just been violently attacked like other public services with 200 million euros in savings. But it has been attacked at its very heart: it is artistic creation which alone has seen itself cut by 100 million euros.
This figure is not to be compared to anything: it has a clear and clear reality. This means the rapid disappearance, pure and simple, of most of the creators, performers who participate in our shows, authors.
There is an emergency today
Apart from the exceptional aid from the Covid-19 crisis which allowed us to survive in the face of a total cessation of activity, we have been reduced to the margin of adjustment of cultural budgets for several years. This margin is today a vice, a shears which is depriving us of our means of creating and presenting our shows. The drop in activity is colossal for everyone, in free fall for many. However, today, we are alive, and we do not want to be forced to abandon our professions, our works, and to desert places of culture then deprived of meaning.
Today we are sounding the alarm, because our silence in the face of danger would also lead to the planned death of all cultural establishments. The political and societal impact is serious. There is an emergency today. With the announcements, it is not in ten years that the majority of live performance companies will disappear, it is tomorrow.
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