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Performers of the performing arts meet Jean Castex on Thursday

2020-08-25T18:19:40.995Z


Hard hit by health measures, this cultural sector has still not been able to resume normal activity.Prime Minister Jean Castex will meet on Thursday at the Ministry of Cutures representatives of the performing arts, a sector affected by the health context, they told AFP on Tuesday, calling for help and visibility in the face of the crisis. The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot confirmed this interview in a tweet: “We are more than ever mobilized to face the epidemic. I strongly advocated fo...


Prime Minister Jean Castex will meet on Thursday at the Ministry of Cutures representatives of the performing arts, a sector affected by the health context, they told AFP on Tuesday, calling for help and visibility in the face of the crisis.

The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot confirmed this interview in a tweet: “We are more than ever mobilized to face the epidemic. I strongly advocated for measures aimed at performing arts! Jean Castex will be present Thursday at the Ministry of Culture in the presence of representatives of the sector ”.

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The components of the stage - theaters, performance halls, concert structures, festivals, etc. - were received in recent days by the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot. All came out rather satisfied, welcoming the listening of the resident of the rue de Valois. "It was a good meeting, long and constructive" , confided Aurélie Hannedouche, of the Syndicate of current music (Sma), after his meeting with Ms. Bachelot Tuesday afternoon. But the minister's office has always recalled that the latter was "not alone in deciding" and that any "strategy" will be developed "in coordination with the Prime Minister".

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Live entertainment was the first to be penalized by the health measures taken to fight the pandemic - such as the first assembly bans - and has still not been able to resume its activity normally.

“In the deadlock for nearly six months, the shutdown sector awaits strong measures. Both in terms of visibility as to the conditions of recovery in the health context, as on the aspect of the economic crisis suffered, ” insisted Tuesday evening, in a press release sent to AFP, the Prodiss, the first employers' organization of musical entertainment in private. The latter calls for "a relaxation of the rules of distancing in the spectacle, the maintenance of the partial activity at full rate until the normal resumption of activity, the extension of the exemption from employer charges, and direct aid to companies. of 300 million euros to prevent one in two entrepreneurs from filing for bankruptcy tomorrow ” .

Source: lefigaro

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