SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 10 (EUROPA PRESS)
The ‘Senior Cinema’ programme, promoted by the Ministry of Culture so that people over the age of 65 can go to the cinema for two euros every Tuesday, begins on July 11 in a total of 17 cinemas in Galicia.
By province, in A Corua seven cinemas have been added, followed by Pontevedra (6), Lugo (3) and Ourense (1). This is a measure promoted by the central government to encourage a return to the theaters.
Specifically, the seven affiliated cinemas in A Corua are: Odeon Multicines (Narn), Cinesa As Cancelas (Santiago), Numax (Santiago), Cines Compostela, Cinesa Marineda City (A Corua), Yelmo Cines Espacio Corua, Duplex (Ferrol) .
In the province of Pontevedra, the list is as follows: Tamberlick (Vigo), Multicines Norte (Vigo), Cines Yelmo Premium Vialia Vigo, Yelmo Cines Vigo, Minicines Central (A Estrada) and Avenida (Caldas de Reis).
In Lugo: Cines Yelmo As Termas (Lugo), Cines Viveiro and Cinelandia (Ribadeo). The only cinema that is added in the province of Ourense is the Novocine de Leiro.
The Ministry points out that it is a proposal that advocates “recovering the illusion of enjoying cinema as an emotional and face-to-face experience, which transcends the mere fact of watching a movie and which, instead, turns the act of going to the cinema into a social and vibrant practice”.
According to the Royal Decree approved by the Council of Ministers on June 13, at the proposal of the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, the measure will allow one day a week, preferably Tuesday or another day in the case of theaters. that only open during the weekend or that close precisely on Tuesdays, people aged 65 or over can access the cinema for two euros.
Tickets can only be issued at the ticket offices of the theaters, with prior identification of the person and proof of their age. The program has a budget of 10 million euros in charge of the General State Budget 2023.
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People 65 years of age or older are the age group that takes the longest to resume the habits of attending movies in theaters prior to the pandemic.
Thus, in cinema attendance there are still notable differences between age groups, since if 49.3% of young people aged 20 to 24 went to the cinema at least once a year between 2021 and 2022, that percentage drops to 6% in the older population. Of all the cultural sectors, cinema is one of the most affected, still today, by the pandemic.
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