Monday evening Carlos Awards 2024the ceremony that rewards the best of the theater season at Villa Carlos Paz and the show stood out among the big winners of the day Oh mama!who won seven statuettes, including the Carlos de Oro.
After the entire cast and production went to receive the first prize, the one who took the microphone was Florencia Pena, protagonist and head of the company, who took advantage of the space and made a firm request to the Government in the midst of the celebration.
“Thank you very much, we are very happy to have received this award. Congratulations for all the work, “Theatre is very important in our country”.the actress said first after receiving the statuette in the hands of mayor Esteban Avilés.
And then he launched a complaint in the midst of the adjustment promoted by President Javier Milei after his assumption of the presidency: “I want to say that beyond the joy that all of us who participated in the delivery have, I would like to please ask all of you who can and you know it “They must help us so that culture is not defunded.”
With vigor and firmness in his position, he added: “We need culture not to be defunded. Because part of what happens here today, with all the works that Carlos Paz has, is because behind it there are people who are present, organizations present. This is for the culture of our Argentina, it must not be defunded! Thank you!”.
The presenter then spoke to the press and expanded her opinion when they asked her about the Omnibus Law presented by Milei: “It’s a good time to talk about culture because we are about to vote, and “It seemed important to me that legislators understand that culture should not be defunded.”
“What happens today at the Carlos, behind this there are many independent works. This does not happen anywhere in the world, we are 92 works in Córdoba. We who have a microphone must raise our voices”, he continued. .
Flor Peña spoke out against the Omnibus Law.“Theatre saves the lives of many people. In Argentina we always argue, and I think it’s important to raise our voices. Don’t disinvest culture, crazy, it’s our identity, it’s what makes us strong in the world”, he concluded, visibly committed. in the case.
Florencia Peña called for preserving the financing of culture.The artists who spoke out against the Omnibus Law
Several cultural leaders, including Charly García, Fito Páez, Cecilia Roth, Graciela Borges, León Gieco, Santiago Mitre, ‘Palito’ Ortega and Martín Caparrós, among others, signed, a few days ago, an open letter against the changes in area of culture which include the omnibus law of the Javier Milei government.
“Culture is in danger”, warns the petition, which has “Over 20 thousand signatures”, as indicated in the text. And they ask that there be no progress in the “defunding” of the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), the National Institute of Music (INAMU) and the body that brings together the Popular Libraries.
They also ask that the National Arts Fund, the National Theater Institute and the National Institute of Music (INAMU) not close.
In the request, which is addressed to the deputies and senators who are debating the reform package of the State of Milei, it is also requested that the Law on the book business not be repealed.
Source: Clarin
