Storytelling Festival: Are Cultural Institutions Injured?
Is the world of culture and leisure in a deep crisis as its leaders claim?
The Ministry of Finance examined the occupancy of shows and performances and found that in most of them there were almost no vacancies left, and in some the occupancy was high.
Those who are injured are mainly small bodies and children's shows.
Ricky Bleich: We're underestimating our claims with condescension "
Liat Ron
10/01/2022
Monday, 10 January 2022, 15:45 Updated: 16:10
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Last Thursday, Shaham, the players' organization, sent a
scathing letter to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and the Minister of Finance.
On Facebook, under the headline "Water has reached the soul," calling on players to put pressure on Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Finance Director Ram Blinkov and three other senior officials, to send each of them a text message to the phone numbers attached to it and demand compensation
. And actresses who fail to support their children, where are you? ", Wrote one of them.
Another actress, said that in the last six months since the end of unemployment benefits and grants, they try to keep their heads above water, but fail because of the green character restrictions." In your promises and not ignore us and throw us to face reality alone. "
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The situation in numbers: Israeli culture is alive and kicking
The Ministry of Finance has decided to check the status of ticket orders for upcoming cultural and entertainment shows, and the findings, which have also been reviewed by us, are inconsistent with the allegations.
Even before the findings and despite the data revealed, it must be assumed that some of the cultural, entertainment and leisure institutions - especially children's shows and performances, or small institutions that do not have massive marketing systems, were indeed damaged to one degree or another, and may even deserve compensation. Which should be on an individual rather than industry basis, as the heads of the culture industry are demanding from the government.
As mentioned, the inspection of the occupancy of the halls and shows is actually quite optimistic. In
the "Hi Festigal
"
show
that
will take place this evening (Monday) at
the Conch Hall in Be'er Sheva
, which contains 3,000 seats, there are less than two free rows left at the edges of blocks C, A and E.
The Habima Theater, which takes place today at 8 pm, is well-occupied, with those queuing for tests at the station outside mingling with the show's visitors.
Not far away, in a performance by
Tamir Greenberg at the Performing Arts Center
, which takes place tonight at nine o'clock, there are less than 20 places left.
So is the play
"Village" at the Gesher Theater
almost completely, and so is the play
"With One Foot in the Plane
" by the "Yiddishpiel" at the Jerusalem Theater, even though many of the viewers of the play belong to the older population, who are more exposed to corona damage.
Even in "
A Couple from Heaven" that will take the stage
of the Northern Theater,
there are almost no seats left and
a lecture by Danny Friedlander and Dr. Yael Ron (the psychologists of "Hatunami")
, in the "Alma" hall in Zichron Yaacov there are few tickets for sale.
The same is true of
The Cameri
: There are very few tickets left for
the "Eshkava"
show that will air this coming Thursday.
We also checked the expected occupancy in the "pill" of Beit Lesin, this coming Friday and found that there are 15 more places available. By
the way available places: Those who want to jump to the
Yaiwi Kosuma exhibition
, it is advisable not to plan the visit for the two weeks between January 19 and the beginning of February, because there are simply no places left. Indeed, this visit can certainly be combined with a PCR test in the museum yard, coming from the library at Beit Ariela.
As mentioned,
in the children's sector, where many are not vaccinated, the situation is less alarming
- and it is possible that intervention on behalf of the state is required: at the Orna Porat Theater, the situation is less good. The hall of "Seeds of Truth" is half occupied, as is the show "Sour Face."
The same is true of some other cultural institutions, for example
Moti Halimi, director of the Israeli Hour Theater, said
that from mid-December to the end of January, close to 100% of the plays were canceled, and theater actress Ravit Cohen Yaakov even said she was considering going hungry with her friends on the streets.
Ricky Bleich, Chairman of Shaham: "I invite the Minister of Finance to meet with thousands of actors, and the staff of the children's plays who are sitting at home and do not know how to feed their children this month" (Photo: Courtesy of those photographed, Avital Peleg)
Shaham response
Ricky Bleich, chairman of the Shaham organization
, responded: "In the repertoire theater, abortions are absorbed to a lesser extent, although the scope of work has decreased
. I invite the Minister of Finance to meet with thousands of actors, and employees of the children's shows who are sitting at home and do not know how to feed their children this month. Or as Lieberman himself said: 'Without my people "Culture will demonstrate and arouse public opinion, nothing will move."
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