What future for public performing arts?

For the first time, the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education of the National Assembly invited public performing arts unions on October 16 to debate the future of their sector, in this case the CGT Spectacle, the SNAM-CGT (artist musicians), the National Union of Living Arts (Synavi) and the National Union of Artistic and Cultural Enterprises (Syndeac).

The finance bill and the credits envisaged for creation – 1.06 billion euros, a very slight increase – are obviously on people’s minds, but not only that. If all professional organizations agree in judging the subsidies from the State and communities insufficient to cope with the increase in artistic costs and various expenditures of…