From Rome to Milan and Venice, demonstrations of show business workers.
Also a banner of the workers of the Teatro La Fenice among those exhibited in the show workers' event organized in front of the Venice railway station.
A thousand people joined the peaceful protest. On the external steps a stage has been set up with a large black backdrop on which the wooden silhouettes of three musicians stand out. One of the flags hoisted has the words 'I don't take money'. Many of the participants are improvising performances among people.
Five minutes of silence then a long applause and music. In via Rizzoli, in the heart of Bologna, actors, musicians, directors, technicians and professionals of the show at 17.30 gave birth to a flash-mob to rekindle the spotlight on the culture that suffered the reverberations of the Covid-19 emergency. With masks, gloves and tools to go on stage, such as scripts or sheet music, about a hundred people, arranged at a distance from each other, participated in the initiative. "We need to start again - said the Bolognese actor Alessandro Bergonzoni - the companies have to start again. We do not create the distances between those who work and those who have to give funds, the show is not a sector to forget. First of all, health, but then c 'is culture, there is the show, which are part of education and cannot be forgotten ".
A few hundred show business workers staged a flash mob in Florence , in the central Piazza della Repubblica, to turn the spotlight on the culture sector, hard hit by the Coronavirus emergency. The initiative, simultaneously also in other Italian squares, including Livorno, Naples and Turin, has the aim of asking the Government for a call and measures to support the culture and entertainment sector. In the square actors, musicians, directors, technicians and show business professionals, each with masks, gloves and keeping a safe distance. There were interventions from the stage then the demonstrators held five minutes of silence, each one with his arms raised holding his work tool in his hand, like sheet music and scripts, followed by a long applause. Among the banners and signs on display also one that reads 'State of permanent agitation, Do not distance but allocate'.
There are also the workers and some choristers and musicians of La Scala in Piazza Duomo in Milan , where some hundreds of show business workers gathered to launch permanent mobilization asking for a continuity income. In the square together with actors and actresses, lyricists, dancers, comedians, choreographers, singers, deejays, technicians and workers, voice actors, screenwriters and directors, tailors and make-up artists, orchestras, acrobats, stunt-man, jugglers and waders, also the Band of the Bursting brass, Raffaele Kohler, the trumpeter who played O mia bela madunina and also the comedian Leonardo Manera during the lockdown. The list of all the professionals of the show chain that the organizers have remembered one by one at the microphone in the central square of the city to remember that "almost all of us work in precariousness" and "declare the state of permanent agitation from now on" ". Many signs with inscriptions such as "without us ideas remain ideas" and "Always fighting for a spectacular world" and again "our work is live up to the netflix of culture". "We are 2000 here in the square today - the organizers say -. We received the news that on June 15 the show's activities will start again, but we know that all the live show has jumped to 2021, the theaters are closing and the festivals will not be staged, not there is a reprogramming "and for this" we ask for a subsistence and continuity income ".
