They call for a “cultural cacerolazo” throughout the country against the adjustment

Those who work in culture, cinema, television, theater, dance, music, popular libraries, community and cooperative media They try to stop the cut of funds that the DNU and the omnibus law to cultural entities such as the FNA and the INT, among others.

These sectors coalesced in “United by culture” and they call for tomorrow starting at 6 p.m. a Cultural Cacerolazo throughout the country to express the energetic repudiation of the attempt to subjugate rights acquired through the Decree of necessity and urgency 70/2023 dictated by President Javier Milei and the bill bus. With both instruments it is intended to modify and/or repeal more than 300 current laws.

The Cacerolazo Cultural will have numerous meeting points for tomorrow, including Congress at 7 p.m., Patio Olmos in Córdoba at 6 p.m., Rosario, Santa Fe, Jujuy in Plaza Belgrano, Tucumán in Plaza Independencia, Santiago del Estero at the Teatro del Pueblo , Salta, La Plata, Mar del Plata and about twenty cities throughout the country.

In the statement the group points out that “the bill declares the general public emergency of the country, and thus makes possible the intervention or closure of decentralized organizations. In addition to defunding and eliminating specific allocation funds with great weight in promoting culture.”

Closing the INT and the FNA, which are not financed by national taxes, reduces to precariousness the work of plastic artists, actresses, actors, stage management, scenography, lighting, costumes, dance and music professionals. . In addition, the modifications to INAMU, which destroy a Non-State Public Entity in a program of the Ministry of Culture, removing all its international and federal exemplarity. It also causes the imminent closure of theaters and cultural spaces throughout Argentina.

Defunding CONABIP condemns hundreds of popular libraries, cultural spaces and spaces belonging to thousands of families throughout the country to the closure. Trying to defund the INCAA by taking away its income would turn our Cinema, of great diversity, appreciated around the world for its quality and content, into a restrictive activity reserved for a few companies, further concentrating the market, drastically reducing production and leaving thousands of workers on the streets.

While deputies and senators are asked to reject the DNU and the Omnibus Law, the following text written by actor Nelson Rueda is circulating through the networks of actors, directors, playwrights, managers and other cultural workers, in which an attempt is made to clarify something about the Institute National Theater and the National Endowment for the Arts: “They are two institutions that significantly help artists and so many independent theaters to develop. They do not depend on general taxes. They also contribute to economic development. If the omnibus law is approved as it was sent to Congress, it will close these two enormous institutions that represent us here and in the world.”

It is worth remembering that Buenos Aires is the third theater city in the world thanks to the development of independent theater, supported by hundreds of small theaters that are self-financing and do not receive the aid they have and, again, do not come from the general taxes, they should close.

In this sense, Rueda founded the Opalo theater 12 years ago with Corina Fiorillo and Pablo Gorlero and at the end of last year they had to close it due to the critical situation in the country, added to the increase in space rent. There were twelve years of independent theater that culminated in 2023.