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Vertigo

14.11.2019

Vlaamse acteurs protesteren mee tegen besparingen cultuursector

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Vandaag hebben tal van artiesten betoogd tegen de geplande besparingen in de cultuursector van de Vlaamse regering en daar waren ook heel wat acteurs bij.

Zo woonden onder meer Kevin Janssens, Maaike Cafmeyer, Tom Van Dyck en Wim Opbrouck een zitting van de Commissie Cultuur bij waarin Vlaams minister van Cultuur Jan Jambon uitleg gaf bij de besparingen.

Ook op sociale media werd er geprotesteerd. Onder de hashtag #thisisourculture deelden kunstenaars foto’s waarop 60 procent van hun werk of gezicht bedekt is. De regering wil namelijk de projectsubsidies met 60 procent verlagen.

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As the technological revolution keeps spreading like a wildfire, it clearly burns our spirit and imagination. The more acces we have to reality, the more cynical and sedated we tend to become. Instead of feeding our imagination and creativity our gouvernment deliberately chooses to starve it by cutting support up to 60%. Where are those leaders with an inspiring vision and perspective for humanity. We mostly have cynical troubleshooters, incompetent thinkers and smart money launderers. The real crisis is the lack of imagination and spirit nowadays therefore it will also spark the next revolution. #thisisourculture #stateofhearts #culturecuts #totalitarianismalwaysstartsbysilencingartists

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“ If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth… In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society — in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost’s hired man, the fate of having “nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.” #quote #jfk #thisisourculture #stateofthearts #cutthecrabbutdontcutculture #professort

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Bron: VRT

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