We always try to look for a bright spot anyway, but sometimes you just have to let it go. Monday, April 6, 2020, we brought a message on how the corona crisis has long after-effects, which have been casting their shadow for at least a year. Today, we talk to Victorine Plante and Erik Snel of Alum, the bringer of that initial message. Also joining us in the podcast is Cobie de Vos. She first responded to the message online. According to her, the chain was in even greater danger than the message described.
Because all chains always start and end with the most vulnerable link, we also speak to Dorine Schoon, oboist and founder of the Platform for Freelance Musicians. From back when it was all about fair practice.
It is an emotional story, and a solution is not immediately in sight. Maybe we offer some recognition, maybe we suddenly come up with something new. Maybe it's only right that we hold each other virtually for a while. That's why we're doing this podcast. Listen to it until the end.
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As a writer, I wonder if it is not time to start preparing for small performances that can be rehearsed and played in the 1.5m mode.
Contrary to what you often read nowadays, I don't think art is there 'to comfort' but to address anxiety, to explore it and to cast it in metaphors. This is eminently the time for that.
It seems to me a possible task of workshops to facilitate that, and guide productionally.
In that kind of production, it seems to me, even the actors, dancers, musicians, technicians, stay at least 2 metres away from each other - and also 2 m away from the audience. That spatial fact alone can be a strong image, it seems to me.
And indeed, halls that are half empty are half full for us, right?
I wonder if there is a 'situation room' at the ministry where all the appeals I now read in the newspapers are collected. It gives a strange feeling that I read and hear the same cries for help from museums, festivals, theatres, companies etc etc, as if they do not have a direct link to the ministry.
From here, it seems as if the ministry is shifting responsibility to industry organisations like the union, instead of having a direct contact with and for the field.
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