Subsidies for performing arts will be conditional on compliance with
formal
“commitments”
against gender-based and sexual violence and harassment, as part of a new government fight plan, announced Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot.
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"For all performing arts structures subsidized by the ministry (...), aid will be conditional on compliance with five commitments"
against gender-based and sexual violence and harassment (VHSS), said Roselyne Bachelot in an interview published on Friday November 24 in
Le Parisien
.
In addition to complying with the labor code, it is a question of
"creating an effective reporting system and processing each testimony"
,
"training from 2022 the management"
and the supervision
"in the collection of speech and the management of VHSS situations ”
.
This plan will make it possible to “give the tools to put an end to the omerta, because it must be called that, which has protected a certain number of predators.
"
Roselyne Bachelot
The 1,249 currently subsidized structures will also have to
"formally sensitize teams and organize risk prevention, and initiate monitoring and evaluation of actions"
, detailed the Minister.
A point will be made with each structure at the end of each subsidy period, she said.
Will have to conform to it
"in particular the national stages, national drama centers, choreographic centers, but also the festivals, places and supported companies"
.
"We can directly act on structures that depend on us financially because we have retaliatory measures, but I am confident for the others,"
she said.
This plan will make it possible to
"give the tools to put an end to the omerta, because it must be called what that, which protected a certain number of predators"
, hopes the minister.
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Asked about the presence of music composed by Bertrand Cantat, convicted in 2003 for the murder of Marie Trintignant, in a play currently being performed at the Théâtre de la Colline, she also considered that the question of the
“redemption”
of an artist was a
"Cornelian"
subject
.
"I try to hold on to both ends of this aporia, and I recognize that this occupies my thoughts deeply
," she conceded.
The revelation in mid-October of this collaboration had caused controversy, in full movement # MeTooThéâtre denouncing sexual violence in the middle of the French theater.