Competitive bidding system prevents programming not knowing how much budget is available; the citizenship cannot benefit structured program and no filter against “intruders” who are amateurs and participate in professional circuits. And above all not enough games It is not intended for the programming and promotion of the performing arts or the maintenance and renewal of cultural infrastructures.
These anomalies, concentrated in the province of Alicante, all associations performing arts from the country (ten in total) To come together to develop a proposal to encourage the creation of a cultural consortium for this region, supported by the Provincial Assembly.
This agreement, which is “historic” in the words of the organizers of the meeting, was announced to the public with a presentation for the sector yesterday, after waiting for a response from Turkey. provincial institution. However RedCual (Alicante Cultural Network) In 2020, it started to take shape as he remembered it during the pandemic process. Roo Castillo from ProTea (Alicante State Theater Professionals Platform).
In May of the same year, the associations came together. ask for help To the Provincial Assembly on the occasion of covid. “We saw an open door of dialogue to discuss the problems of the sector in the field of culture and we started to develop some projects.”
Creation of the provincial festival
This is how the Provincial Performing Arts Festival was created with the will to continue working. shipped in 2021 700.000 Euro for this meetinghowever, it could not be implemented due to bureaucratic difficulties.
In 2022, the Provincial Council was asked to implement the model without a response. Albacete Culture ConsortiumIt is supported by the Provincial Assembly. only you take some improvement on the festival, “but it’s not really our project and it doesn’t fit our needs”. The year 2023 is coming. An appointment is requested from the chairman of the Provincial Assembly, but there is no answer.
Pepe Ayelo of Gestió Cultural, about 300 million euros owned by the provincial institution, only 8.22% go to Culture (23.3 million), which represents the annual cultural cost of 12.25 euros per capita and 2.6 million of the cultural investment in the municipalities of the province.
“We asked industry and cultural managers what the main challenges were and they focused on the fact that it was a dispersed system of seven or eight people. recurring calls; bureaucracy is a wall, they ask for same papers over and over for the same thing not programmable because there is uncertainty in the budget and There is no participation of citizens or civil society. in cultural management; There are also no councils that decide how subsidies will be distributed.
Another point developed in this proposal is an “clear plan” for the reform and revision of cultural infrastructures. “There is a 20 million reclamation plan for sports facilities and a reclamation plan for culture. 300.000 Euros».
Albacete’s goals and model
Among the suggested goals, creation of a participation and cultural backbone body in the legal figure that best responds to the participation of all sectors. At this point the group recommends doing the following: Albacete Consortium modelSupported by the Provincial Assembly,and has been working for 25 years with all municipalities of the province. “This way, whoever has the most pays the most, and whoever has the least pays less,” Ayelo notes.
You are also requested 25% of Diputación’s Cultural budget is devoted to the cultural programs of the municipalities. establishment of the province and an element for protecting and starting infrastructures cultural up to 2 million per year to guarantee the replenishment of resources and equipment.
Deathz professional associations Participants include the performing arts, music, circus, dance, playwrights, business and cultural management sectors. Advaem, AVED, Apccv, Comité Escèniques, GC Gestió Cultural, Apdcv, Avetid, ProTea, AAPV and Aveet.