National Day of Performing Arts established: to be held on October 24 each year

From this year on, October 24 will be the National Day of Performing Arts. The decision was ratified yesterday by a favorable vote of the House Culture Committee, after the bill was approved in the Senate. A day, therefore, on which celebrations will be held throughout Italy, with the possibility, on the part of the state, regions, provinces and municipalities, to promote performances, ceremonies, conventions, activities, other public meetings and more generally initiatives of any kind for the promotion of entertainment in all its forms. These activities may also include the involvement of associations and bodies working in the entertainment sector.

“The vote establishing this important event, dedicated to the celebration of the performing arts and its workers,” emphasizes Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, “comes symbolically at a time when performing arts venues are beginning to repopulate. It will never be possible to compensate the artists of this sector for what they have lost. The opportunity to perform in public has been precluded for more than a year-a very strong trauma that triggers great emotion in those who finally return to the stage. Thanks to the careful policy of refreshments, carried out in constant dialogue with the workers, it was possible to avert the loss of such important professional figures. This was followed by a new welfare system that fully recognized women and men workers in the performing arts. Now comes a National Day, which gives full value to one of the pillars of the country’s cultural life.”

Also on yesterday’s day, Franceschini also spoke on the issue of restarting cinema. “The government and Parliament,” the minister said, “have made a very important investment in recent years in cinema. The audiovisual market in the world is growing enormously and will be one of the fastest growing sectors in the coming years. Italy is already exercising and can exercise a leading role. The measures on tax credit, new resources and the great investment on Cinecittà have multiplied Italian lattractivity. The Cinema Fund has been strengthened a great deal in recent years and we are working for it to grow further. In Recovery we have provided 300 million euros to invest in the Experimental Center of Cinematography and Cinecittà both for the technological upgrading of the studios and the very substantial expansion of space in an area of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. Investing in cinema and the entire audiovisual sector is no longer just a cultural factor but is above all important from an economic point of view. Right now we intercept a huge growth in the global market for cinema and audiovisual and we will have to study synergies to enhance the possibilities and not see everything as competition. The film and audiovisual industry will be one of the driving sectors of Italian economic growth in the next ten years.”

Undersecretary Lucia Borgonzoni also spoke on the issue of the National Day of Performing Arts, according to whom “it is a great result listituzione of the National Day of Performing Arts. Symbolic, yes, but an undisputed signal of attention to the entire sector. Attention to the sector demonstrated in fact also with the work that is being done on the social security part, to protect the rights of workers in the sector and on the return to normality.”

National Day of Performing Arts established: to be held on October 24 each year

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