RESISTANCE NOW – FREE CULTURE

ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival joins the call “RESISTANCE NOW – FREE CULTURE”, already uniting over 200 leading voices from 39 countries, representing 180 major national theatres, operas, festivals, and performing arts venues.

By signing the “RESISTANCE NOW: FREE CULTURE” open letter, they express concerns about the “attacks, bans, layoffs and cutbacks” to cultural institutions in Hungary and Slovakia that are designed to undermine a “diverse European culture” – and which appear at risk of spreading into other European countries, such as The Netherlands, France and Germany. Earlier in November, ultra-nationalist groups violently obstructed a premiere by US actor and director John Malkovich at the National Theatre Ivan Vazov in Bulgaria.

Alarmed by this threat to cultural diversity in Europe posed by nationalist movements, Milo Rau & Artemis Vakianis (Directors Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen), Austria), Matej Drlička (Dismissed Director, Slovak National Theatre, Slovakia) and Vasil Vasilev (Director National Theatre, Bulgaria), initiated together with the network of publicly-funded theatres European Theatre Convention (ETC), the Prospero – Extended Theatre platform and the network Opera Europa the Open Letter RESISTANCE NOW: FREE CULTURE to the European Parliament.

Here to read and sign the letter: https://www.change.org/p/join-the-first-europe-wide-campaign-to-protect-artistic-freedom?utm_medium=custom_url&utm_source=share_petition&recruited_by_id=adab3630-ab35-11ef-8511-cb06cd5740b6