Although not closed: "Culture Basket" did not return to full activity | Israel today

The world of culture may have returned to a kind of routine.

The green note allowed the halls to open.

But even if the show must continue - it seems that in the world of children these days face great difficulty: "Culture Basket", the project that makes culture accessible to children (which was closed until the media echo following the exposure of "Israel Today" managed to prevent the decree) failed to return to full activity.

Since March 2020, the big performances of "Culture Basket" have not taken place, even when the students returned to the schools and the culture halls received permission to return to work.

Over 5,000 actors, creators, directors, and technical teams receive cancellation notices for performances every day, after only recently, as part of Hanukkah performances, there were performances and performances for children in front of large audiences.

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The artists are frustrated, the social networks are full of painful posts and the children's theaters are mostly afraid of a generation of children who grew up without exposure to culture and art. "For more than 700 days, the large repertory children's and youth theaters have not been active and there is no adequate solution on the horizon that will allow students to gather together in the hall," explains Shlomit Dagan, director of the Children and Youth Theaters Association. And answer. We certainly understand the concerns and constraints and health considerations, but there is also a fear of all of us losing the important tier of children consuming culture and watching real theater, coming to the hall with their class, their community, and seeing, sometimes for the first time, what a setting, however, what "Watch a quality show with a number of actors and discover the world of theater."

David Kiegler, director of the Orna Porat Theater for Children and Youth, also shares the distress: "Most of the activity of the children's theaters is through 'Culture Basket'.

"There is a big crisis here, not only for the actors and the employees, but also for the creators, for whom the hundreds of plays that were supposed to receive royalties do not take place. These are thousands of plays that do not happen."

So what do you offer?

"Continue to compensate the children's theaters and especially find a solution for the future. The fact is that in the Hanukkah plays they did find a solution. An exception should be found for children in schools, something should be done. ".

The "Tropical" play by the Orna Porat Theater,

Adam, actor and creator, the representative of the actors of "Culture Basket" also expressed the great frustration: "Unfortunately, since March 2020 there have been no performances of" Culture Basket ". While the rest of the cultural world found solutions and returned to work in different formats, we still remained "Unemployed. There are proposals for different outlines and every time at the last minute they are canceled. It does not make sense that the commercial Hanukkah productions took place and quality performances adapted to the education of the children are not approved to take place."

Actress Yael Dover also posted a post on her Facebook page describing the dismal situation: "After the blown-up halls of Hanukkah, it was our turn to work, but from month to month it deteriorates (especially after the influences of Hanukkah itself) and no, we can not schedule jobs now that we have moved everything "For the performances of the coming month. I'm starting to prefer that they put us in a closure and give us compensation because we also have the minimum need to exist in this country."

On behalf of the community center company that operates the national "culture basket" program for the Ministry of Education, it was stated: "The program works in the formal education frameworks in full and is praised.

It allows all Israeli students to be exposed to culture at its best even during the Corona period, for which the shows and gatherings take place in schools and kindergartens and not in halls.

This is in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministries of Health and Education. "

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