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– Now we are introducing a social closure of Oslo, says Raymond Johansen during today’s press conference.
This means giving up drinking altogether, banning indoor events, and little social contact. This means that all cultural events in the capital must be canceled.
In Bergen, a ban on public events with more than 20 people has been introduced. Events without fixed seats are prohibited.
The Labor Party’s cultural policy spokesperson, Anette Trettebergstuen, believes that the cultural sector will not overcome this without the government accepting the bill.
– We have said that there has been a crisis since March. That crisis has intensified today. We see that cultural life is on a broken back, and they will not handle this round if the government does not come out during the day and say it will accept the bill, he tells Dagbladet.
Desperate: – It’s the door hook
– Mouse urinates in the sea
Trettebergstuen believes that the Minister of Culture and the government should make promises of sufficient crisis packages, targeting cultural workers, organizers and subcontractors.
– Raja must now enter the field and calm a cultural life already plagued by crisis. Now they go bankrupt. At the same time, the government will phase out compensation for canceled events and cancel support for the self-employed within a few weeks. It does not work.
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Trettebergstuen believes that the schemes should be extended to a March low in the first instance.
– And new packages must arrive to save culture through this crisis. Now it doesn’t help with a stimulation scheme. It’s just mouse urine in the ocean, and it doesn’t matter if Raja wants concerts now. It’s not allowed, she says.
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– Keep it up
On Thursday, Culture Minister Abid Raja (V) wrote in an email to Dagbladet that he is following the situation.
– Local variations in measurements, as we now see in Bergen and Oslo, will of course hit the cultural sector hard. The government follows developments closely and assesses the constant need for changes and adjustments. I want to do what I can so that as many people as possible can survive the pandemic, and that we have a sector that can provide us with a wide and diverse cultural offer on the other side of the crisis, writes the Minister of Culture.
Several cultural workers have received financial support from the stimulation plan, which will help increase activity in cultural life during the corona pandemic. Raja says that you do not have to return the money if the event must now be canceled.
– We will examine the need to adjust and increase the schemes if necessary. I fully understand that this is a demanding situation for actors in cultural life. At the same time, if the events that have received grants from the incentive scheme still cannot be carried out due to orders from public authorities, the organizer does not have to return what applies to unavoidable financial obligations, says Raja.
