The Stavanger and Sola concert hall wore red tonight

Stavanger Concert Hall dressed in red tonight in solidarity with cultural workers across the country who are losing their jobs due to the corona pandemic.

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Cecilie Christ at the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra writes on Facebook tonight:

“In solidarity with the self-employed and cultural workers who are at risk of losing their jobs and being left out of government compensation plans. I want to return to a post-Covid-19 society where a strong and diverse cultural life continues to enrich us! “Christ writes in his post on Facebook.

Across the country, cultural workers have demonstrated. In front of the Storting in Oslo, Dum Dum Boys performed a concert without an audience to mark the seriousness.

Grete Straume at Stavanger Concert Hall has posted a similar post:

– The idea of ​​dyeing barley red is borrowed from abroad. Sign buildings across the United States and Europe are illuminated and have been given names like LightInRed, WeMakeEvents and Redalert, writes Grete Straume.

DumDum-Aslak kicked the Minister of Culture: – Free yourself from Tom Cruise’s wet embrace, he said from the stage.

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Dressed in black and wearing a blindfold, 50 lighting and sound technicians and the crew rolled the black gear boxes through the streets of Oslo on Wednesday. He climbed through Karl Johans gate and drove in two rows to Eidsvolls plass opposite the Storting, where they were.

Black is the working color for this occupational group, to appear as small as possible when working around and behind the scenes. But the celebration on Wednesday was marked by the color red:

– There is a red level of danger, declared the president of the board of GramArt, Ivar S. Peersen and points to The government will abolish the compensation regime for the self-employed on November 1.

He says it has been successful, at a time when the industry was prohibited from working.

– The government’s proposal to eliminate it means the same as throwing thousands of people into a situation of uncertainty. No one knows how the proposed stimulation will take place, even though it will take place starting Thursday. We stood loyally behind the authorities when necessary. Now we must say when the same authorities are about to make a serious mistake, Peersen said during Wednesday’s appeal.

Despair

Lighting designer Magnus Boyd, who pioneered the RedAlert Norway campaign, notes that 75% of sound and lighting technicians in Norway are self-employed and will lose “almost all revenue” if the compensation plan is abolished.

– So I fear that several of our colleagues will leave the industry in utter despair, Boyd said in his appeal, calling for the scheme to be improved and expanded.

– I hope you hear us, at least we made enough noise. I hope the government gets the signals of a united industry, LO and opposition, Boyd tells NTB.

The organizers also sent an invitation to the Minister of Culture, Abid Q. Raja, who received strong criticism from various speakers.

– He held a press conference at the same time as the celebration, not mentioning our case, says Boyd.

“Mercy”

Among those who filed appeals with the Storting on Wednesday were industry representatives, artists, representatives of various artists’ organizations and opposition politicians, and the LO leader.

– They have taken our livelihood. We were prohibited from working on March 12. Our politicians talk about it as charity. For us, it was mandatory, said Anne Cecilie Winther in Oslo Kru, who called the liquidation “a stroke of mercy.”

– It is completely incomprehensible that the government chooses to end this scheme before there is a real alternative, said Stig Gunnar Ringen of the artists organization Creo, while the artist Julie Dahle directly recommended to politicians:

– If you finish the scheme on November 1, you will remove the contact from our colorful industry. Many people have to put down their instrument, pen, and microphone forever.

Raja’s criticism

The Government and Minister of Culture Abid Q. Raja reviewed the appeals of Anette Trettebergstuen (AP) and Kari Elisabeth Kaski (SV). They recalled that cultural life has been in crisis for seven months and is still in the middle of it.

– This testifies to a Minister of Culture who does not understand how cultural life and its industries work, and who does not listen, said Trettebergstuen, while Kaski pointed out that the 13 billion in annual value creation of the industry “is not nonsense. “:

– The government must realize soon that what it is doing is creating value and business, said the SV politician.

LO leader Hans Christian Gabrielsen said in his appeal that the proposed closure “demonstrates a lack of understanding and awareness of the challenges of the cultural sector.”

– We risk that much of the industry of culture and events disappears. So we are left with a poorer cultural life and a poorer Norway.

Direct from DumDum

More directly in the attack on Raja were the DumDum Boys rockers, more specifically bassist Aslak Dørum, who grabbed the mic after Prepple had left with a couple of songs to end the demo in front of the Storting.

– I hope that the Minister of Culture, who obviously does not dare to be present today, manages to free himself from Tom Cruise’s wet embrace, look up from the selfie stick long enough to talk to some adults and understand what he is doing. Norwegian cultural life is spinning. Is not the!

Wednesday’s mark will continue into the night. Then a red light will be lit as a danger signal against more than 100 buildings and cultural monuments across the country, from the Opera and the National Theater to the club stages in Utkant-Norge.

– More and more people are coming, Magnus Boyd at RedAlert Norway informs NTB.