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“Defending culture”, “creativity, necessary for mental health” …: the cultural world expresses its distress in spectacle (photos)

Artists, cultural workers, socio-cultural associations and collectives and federations of the arts and creation have denounced the “flagrant inequality of treatment” that their sector is suffering in the management of the coronavirus crisis.

En song, sketch or slam, several artists expressed their distress, Saturday from 5.30 pm, in front of the closed gates of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, symbol of a sector in crisis for months. The artists denounced, in performances, the unequal treatment suffered, according to them, by the cultural sector since the coronavirus crisis.

“The flagrant inequality of treatment”

“The silence and indifference displayed by the political world, the postponement sine die of any prospect, can not last any longer,” they said.

Artists, cultural workers, socio-cultural associations and collectives and federations of the arts and creation have denounced the “flagrant inequality of treatment” that their sector is suffering in the management of the coronavirus crisis.

Divided into spectators and “performers”, they presented a cabaret-like show, attracting passers-by from the city center, to remind people that “culture is a fundamental right which, like access to health care and education. or to justice, cannot be sacrificed on the altar of numbers ”.

“Defending culture is affirming a vision of the world. It is to consider that we are not only biological beings, and that social links and creativity are necessary for mental health ”, affirmed the collective of artists and workers in the cultural sector.


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