The cultural professionals call Nicolas Sarkozy
Twenty unions and federations in the world of Culture have questioned Nicolas Sarkozy during a national day of protest against the disengagement of the State in the culture.
Nearly a thousand people, according to organizers, gathered in the afternoon instead of the Palais Royal in Paris, with the slogan: "Diverse arts and culture in danger."
Other events attended by several dozen or several hundred people were also held in the provinces, including Marseille, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes and Orleans.
"If we are here is that we can not do otherwise. It is the beginning of a mobilization", launched Louis Joinet, secretary general of the Bangladesh Federal Union of intervention cultural structures (Ufisc).
He stressed that because of the freeze on funding for the creation and dissemination, cultural operators "are starting the year with complete uncertainty about their funding."
In moving to Blois (Loir-et-Cher), the Prime Minister, Francois Fillon stressed that the budget for culture is not decreasing, although some expenditures were frozen.
"First the budget for culture it is not decreasing. It is like all state budgets, we have decided to freeze all government spending over five years, for a very simple reason is that we do can not continue to increase the deficit and debt to the country, "he said.
"The cultural professionals are able to understand it like the other French," he added.
"ARTIST, SPECIES IN DANGER"
The artists themselves do not décolèrent against a policy inspired in their eyes by Nicolas Sarkozy, reflected in declines or deletions subsidies for structures less profitable.
They denounce greater willingness to impose the cultural policy of economic models under the liberal ideology.
Place du Palais-Royal, the demonstrators held a "drop bear" - artists disguised as ours - to show that the artist has become "a species in danger."
"The art should not be regarded as an object merchant, it does not have to abide by the laws of the market," said Nicolas Roméas, editor of the magazine Cassandra, at the origin of this initiative.
"It was a foregone conclusion that a government like that of Sarkozy would go against the culture," lamented the singer Sanseverino, while other demonstrators wore masks of bears.
Later, a demonstrator brandished a placard proclaiming "Touch me not", by referring to the sentence launched by a visitor to the Salon de l'Agriculture refusing to shake hands with Nicolas Sarkozy.
Besides Ufisc, the Employers' Federation of performing arts public and private (Feps), the Federation CGT du spectacle, the Federation of the street arts, Fedurok, Synavi, the Union for the establishment of the circus, in particular, called for demonstrate.
A Orleans (Loiret), nearly 200 professionals have laid a wreath where one could read "with all our grievances" to the Regional Office of Cultural Affairs (DRAC).
"The first step palpable, cuts in subsidies," said Frederick Reuters Robbe, vice president of the Federation of places of amplified music today (FEDUROK). "For multimedia, the example is shouting. The state has removed all subsidies while he was the initiator of such development projects."
In his letter of Mission Christine Albanel, Nicolas Sarkozy had hoped that public support for the establishment of 'promoting an offer meeting the expectations of the public. "
The "grenade of market forces" was thrown together "in the garden of culture," wrote Liberation Friday.
Last September, Christine Albanel had submitted a budget of 2.93 billion euros, an increase of 3.2% for 2008, but elected leftist challenged this envelope that must be removed, for example the "re-budgeting" 70 million euros decided by the Villepin government in 2006.
In fact, the increase would be only 0.7%, according to the federation CGT entertainers.
The budget, described as "mediocre" by professionals ", includes in particular a gel 6% of the appropriations for the entire performing arts. Faced with protests, the Minister of Culture has finally released 34 million.
Nearly a thousand people, according to organizers, gathered in the afternoon instead of the Palais Royal in Paris, with the slogan: "Diverse arts and culture in danger."
Other events attended by several dozen or several hundred people were also held in the provinces, including Marseille, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes and Orleans.
"If we are here is that we can not do otherwise. It is the beginning of a mobilization", launched Louis Joinet, secretary general of the Bangladesh Federal Union of intervention cultural structures (Ufisc).
He stressed that because of the freeze on funding for the creation and dissemination, cultural operators "are starting the year with complete uncertainty about their funding."
In moving to Blois (Loir-et-Cher), the Prime Minister, Francois Fillon stressed that the budget for culture is not decreasing, although some expenditures were frozen.
"First the budget for culture it is not decreasing. It is like all state budgets, we have decided to freeze all government spending over five years, for a very simple reason is that we do can not continue to increase the deficit and debt to the country, "he said.
"The cultural professionals are able to understand it like the other French," he added.
"ARTIST, SPECIES IN DANGER"
The artists themselves do not décolèrent against a policy inspired in their eyes by Nicolas Sarkozy, reflected in declines or deletions subsidies for structures less profitable.
They denounce greater willingness to impose the cultural policy of economic models under the liberal ideology.
Place du Palais-Royal, the demonstrators held a "drop bear" - artists disguised as ours - to show that the artist has become "a species in danger."
"The art should not be regarded as an object merchant, it does not have to abide by the laws of the market," said Nicolas Roméas, editor of the magazine Cassandra, at the origin of this initiative.
"It was a foregone conclusion that a government like that of Sarkozy would go against the culture," lamented the singer Sanseverino, while other demonstrators wore masks of bears.
Later, a demonstrator brandished a placard proclaiming "Touch me not", by referring to the sentence launched by a visitor to the Salon de l'Agriculture refusing to shake hands with Nicolas Sarkozy.
Besides Ufisc, the Employers' Federation of performing arts public and private (Feps), the Federation CGT du spectacle, the Federation of the street arts, Fedurok, Synavi, the Union for the establishment of the circus, in particular, called for demonstrate.
A Orleans (Loiret), nearly 200 professionals have laid a wreath where one could read "with all our grievances" to the Regional Office of Cultural Affairs (DRAC).
"The first step palpable, cuts in subsidies," said Frederick Reuters Robbe, vice president of the Federation of places of amplified music today (FEDUROK). "For multimedia, the example is shouting. The state has removed all subsidies while he was the initiator of such development projects."
In his letter of Mission Christine Albanel, Nicolas Sarkozy had hoped that public support for the establishment of 'promoting an offer meeting the expectations of the public. "
The "grenade of market forces" was thrown together "in the garden of culture," wrote Liberation Friday.
Last September, Christine Albanel had submitted a budget of 2.93 billion euros, an increase of 3.2% for 2008, but elected leftist challenged this envelope that must be removed, for example the "re-budgeting" 70 million euros decided by the Villepin government in 2006.
In fact, the increase would be only 0.7%, according to the federation CGT entertainers.
The budget, described as "mediocre" by professionals ", includes in particular a gel 6% of the appropriations for the entire performing arts. Faced with protests, the Minister of Culture has finally released 34 million.
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