A couple of weeks ago the first piece of the campaign began to circulate #Back to Livewhich cries out for the return of live shows with a 100% capacity. On that occasion, the video that began a series of audiovisual pieces featured messages from LThe Jaivas, Princess Alba, Chancho en Piedra, Joe Vasconcellos and Tommy Rey.
Now it is the turn of the actors and workers of the entertainment world with two videos entitled Save the Theater and Save the Stages, respectively.
“More than a request, I believe that it no longer even borders on the requirement, but rather it is from a place that borders on the need to be able to continue working”explains Mariana Loyola in the audiovisual piece.
For your part Daniel Munozwho opens the video, points out that policies are needed that “give back to these expressions the possibility of presenting themselves with a full capacity, 100%”. And add, Alfredo Castrothat between 15 and 30 people work in a theater and that it is urgent to recover these sources of work.
It should be remembered that they are 160 thousand jobs those who are impacted by this situation: artists, technicians, cultural managers, promoters, venues, ticket sellers, ushers, caterers, sound, stage, chargers, stagehands, preventionists, lighting technicians, small and medium-sized companies come in risk your source of employment. From the sector it is estimated that 2 out of 3 workers had to abandon their work due to the paralysis of the sector.
That is why the workers in the sector have also raised their voices because many have had to change jobs or have been left without a source of employment. Along these lines, and as can be seen in the video, Mónica Sánchez, from the security sector, points out that their families depend on this source of work.
“Our cost has been very high. We have lost 50% of our workforce”, he emphasizes Andres Lagoscarpenter.
Unlike other countries in the region, Chile is one of the few that still has capacity restrictions for artistic shows. Unlike, for example, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia that are working at 100%. The foregoing, despite the fact that our country is a leader in vaccination against covid-19 in Latin America.
The call made by the artists and workers in the different pieces is to recover culture because a country without it is nothing. Culture and music need to come back to life: Chile needs to come back to life.
