Marino Sinibaldi, director of Radio 3 and assiduous protagonist of cultural projects and events, expressed in a tweet on Monday afternoon a different opinion from the one that prevailed in the world of Italian art and culture yesterday, very busy protesting against the decision of the government to include the closure of cinemas, theaters and events in the new restrictions imposed to limit the coronavirus contagion.
But does it make sense to ask for cinemas and theaters to be kept open, which in any case will increasingly empty? Isn’t it better to expect support, digital incentives, spaces on the media, including Rai? pic.twitter.com/HfqvyEfzA5
– marino sinibaldi (@marinosinibaldi) October 26, 2020
The tweet got attention, and so Sinibaldi extended his reasoning into a article published on the website of International.
Perhaps we should stop for a moment and reflect on the words we are spending and the proposals we are advancing in order not to close cinemas, theaters, concert halls. Not because the arguments are wrong, and even less because the intentions are not acceptable. There is no doubt that “art continually re-establishes the community” and that “without theater there is police begins to disintegrate ”, as he wrote for example Nicola Lagioia. And therefore there must be no doubt that in the black hole of a pandemic that seems to never end, we really need art, culture and beauty like bread. We need it as a community and as individuals: without it we would all be weaker, poorer, more alone.
(Keep reading on International)
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