mièreshead of the Kaudal basin, one of the most important mining regions Spaina town that has also become a center of cultural pilgrimage in recent years, combined both concepts and launched the “Caja de Resistencia” project. Artists banned in other municipalities or autonomous communities will be recruited.
If the “resistance fund” is the common fund to which everyone contributes as much as they can, strikes and workers’ struggles were allowed to continue This led to job and social improvements for workers, but now the Mieres Cultural Department wants to help, “support” artists banned elsewhere.
The first of these will be Paco Bezerra, winner of the National Prize for Dramatic Literature, whose work “I am dying because I am not dying (Double life of Teresa)” was vetoed by the government. Isabel Diaz Ayuso (PP) at the Community Canal Theaters of Madrid. On September 30, Bezerra will be at Mieres to present a dramatized reading of the work. “Readers” will be volunteers who will work with the author over the previous two days. This reading is similar to the one promoted by the SGAE after the censorship of the work in the Sala Berlanga in Madrid, and in which Bezerra was supported by figures from the cultural world such as Pedro Almodovar, Marisa Paredes, Luis García Montero, Rafael Doctor. , Elena Anaya, Macarena García, Asier Etxeandía or Goya Toledo. On this occasion the reading was performed by actresses Julieta Serrano, Nathalie Poza, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Ana Belén and Gloria Muñoz.
In addition to participating in the show, The people of Mieres will be able to attend a meeting with the author.
Bezerra’s presence in Mieres serves to open a cycle in which a play will also be performed in Asturian, with an apparent reference to the Gijón City Council following the debate over the “veto” of artists who use the language in their performances. The movie “Buzz Lightyear” will also be screened in 14 countries, censored and eliminated from the summer film schedule of Santa Cruz de Bezana (Cantabria), where PP and Vox rule, because it contains a sequence involving two female characters kissing.
Mieres Cultural Council Member Rocío Antela started this “resistance box” because “we could not look away while other governments introduced cultural authoritarianism.” Supporting groups like these is not just an act of political demand. LGTBI, so is this, but Antela also understands it this way: financial support for these professionals those who are left unemployed and therefore without income when their concerts, performances or exhibitions are excluded from a cultural programme. “Behind every cancellation is not just the title of a work or an artistic name, but also a group of workers,” Antela said. he emphasized. The suppression of Bezerra’s work in Madrid affects not only him, but also the actors, technicians, seamstresses, make-up artists and the entire production team of the play. The same applies when a concert or any artistic performance is cancelled.
Now that the cancellation policy is so present, Mieres pulls out the “resistance box” to denounce what he considers Antela’s “resistance box.”“The new method of the Inquisition Tribunals in the 21st century”. From that common fund, money will come from municipal budgets to help artists and their teams whose incomes have decreased because their works are not accepted by government teams that do not share the same ideology.
In the coming weeks, the Ministry of Culture will close the remainder of the program with the participation of national and regional artists from various disciplines.