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hello and welcome to us 212020 is drawing to a close and not a moment too soon i'm sure many of you are thinking but that's cos our minds back to january this should have been a great year for culture. celebrating 250 years of beethoven. a new bond movie was to touch screens. and german metal legends i'm stein of the us stadium. i was going to attend my 1st ever your song contest this year and things began well award season was underway with parasite making history the oscar goes to parasite why does the 1st have a foreign language film. the 3rd in international film festival in february ended

up being one of the last big cultural events to carry on more or less to normal this year and then then came the condiment dominating headlines ever since and bringing with it a virtual standstill in the culture scene across the world. culture ground trust. by. the coronavirus close these eons cinemas unfitness. venice normally flooded with tourists was empty. its world famous denali canceled. the venue of the international architecture exhibition deserted. the film industry to do so when 10 knocked down from hollywood to bollywood. the dream factory for indian fairytales wound down its productions to then minimum so many performers no longer know how they'll make ends meet next the house she snuck me shrug or the

company lockdown i had lots of work out of one or 2 shoots per month higher and around $18000.00 or $250.00 a month better and create my family and for the last 6 months there's been absolutely nothing for us to do with thank you in south africa the government imposed a national down in late march in the months that followed i want to talk to for jabber lanny more documented what the crisis meant for people in his township of soweto in johannesburg one of the uncertainty of loneliness and hunger. put to aggressively this time and i want to freeze that experience i want people wounded even being here is a little too good to feel you move the people who feel real and so we had to do with living with their experiences during commitment to. also here in sweat o. and n.g.o.s providing children with food it's often the only kneel they get for the

day the solidarity is the word of the day the issue of more interested in the composition the role of the common problem going to be realized in a lot of people going to fool me to push him out all the support to go forth with the proceeds from the sales of his photos to the sick. sessile artist wants to support the community to which she has deep roots in. new york city looks like a ghost town the pandemic hit the city that never sleeps very hard in the summer chelsea district home to many galleries was still emerging from hibernation the most challenging at the at the at the front end was just not knowing it feels like we've moved from fear to functional. but functioning with a completely unknown set of what's around. the metropolitan museum of art had planned big celebrations to markets 150th anniversary this year instead the met is

facing an uncertain future. think in this this year and i don't think we'll see tourism come back before we really have a vaccine and to find our way back to anything even remotely like it was before will probably take 2 to 3 years. so we need to stick it out of course that's easier said than done especially when it comes to money the pandemic has put cultural institutions and the livelihoods of artists around the world under threat many have looked to germany as a positive example with the government offering financial support artists early on in the crisis and yet the creative industry has still found itself under a huge amount of pressure germany known as the land of poets and thinkers is a nation of culture it hosts the largest book fair in the world and is home to 6800

museum. nearly half of the world's professional orchestras have their home here and the club scene is world famous. but since the pandemic hit the arts have been in crisis the art center got its own aid package with a new start for culture that normally. i have a marriage budget of $2000000000.00 euros per year and i received another 1000000000 in the middle of the year in order to alleviate the plight of those working in the arts you can't solve all the problems with 1000000000 euros but that was of course a very clear declaration of solidarity with the arts sector by the entire federal government an expression of appreciation. the government commissioner for culture launched the a program in june. those employed in all areas of the arts can apply for support through there for special associations and. so far more than 600000 euros have flown to the arts sector under this scheme.

rehearsals for an uncle americal satire berlin's oldest camber a fine of invested much of its aid money and state of the art equipment for air purification just one of the measures aimed at complying with hygiene regulations. and the we've installed plexiglas barriers at the balls and the coach check to contact his forces for the washrooms we've presented and partially implemented a digital concept that allows us to stream productions so we've implemented this hygiene concept and we're very happy about that. but so far not everyone has received assistance the commissioner for culture has now called for another 1000000000 euros for the arts there are many other aid programs as well as solo artists groups and venues can apply for emergency aid plans special funds bridge

loans and much more. economic impact on germany's far reaching arts and culture scene has been an immense. by holding benefit concerts world famous violinist ana sophie mucha has collected funds for freelance musicians. she. heals to policymakers not to leave artists in the lurch. i hope that the politicians will take notice of the many studies which show that cultural events aren't super spider events this is if you do that they'll find a solution somewhere between on and off and that age reaches its destination with less bureaucracy copter it's certainly make more sense for everyone involved both economically and psychologically to find a happy medium so that people can experience music while at hearing to strict tighter measures. countless events have been canceled and cultural institutions have been closed for months many artists have used

creative means to protest the silencing of the arts. the artists help us deal with the big questions of course sagas to know they are the critical corrective of any living democracy we need the arts because they hold up a mirror to us survives because they create a space for discourse because they deal with answers to the ultimate questions with values that give meaning its initiative we need the arts more than ever right now and to help us make sense of everything we're dealing with typed us through the currents to meddle in. the coronavirus inspired mexican art students gonzalo through a loss to make these images which he painted during the 1st lockdown in germany. he recently held his 1st exhibition for friends only on the outskirts of berlin. somewhere it's very important for this so. it's important to have.

a fit if you book. negative or positive yet the 2nd more extensive lockdown means private initiatives like this are also no longer possible . being put to the test. let's talk now to someone who knows plenty about the difficulties facing artists here in germany and abroad he's recently released a new album titled on vacation. and while he would normally be on a very tight shuttle performing all over the well. today i'm lucky enough to be joined by jazz musician. it's great to have you with us this thanks for coming so playing the trumpet requires quite a lot of puff is not quite

a dangerous thing to be doing during the current pandemic well we've learned that our results are spreading around especially with wind instruments but there have been some scientific studies i think saying that brass instruments and the trumpet is a brass instrument. and not so dangerous you know so everything stays pretty much where you are. and i think that been some you know some some some good cases you know where walk us was god really organized you know how to solve these kind of things and it of course it has to do with distance as always these days it's been a bizarre and difficult year for people all over the world but what is your experience been like and how it's not done affected you and your what. i played my last concert in 2020 the end of february and that was it basically i think i played 3 concerts 2 of them were outdoors and it was it was fun of course and you could already tell the people were really really moved by the fact that they're you know

were attending a concert after quite a long time. a 3rd concert was indoors and it was a remarkable hygenic concert that was organized beforehand so even though the concert started an hour later we felt we felt so welcome and it was the same feeling and most most of all there's not one registered case by now in the entire business that's a remarkable fact i think yeah that's true yeah and of course with the current news of the vaccines we've got a little bit of hope perhaps that an end to this might be in sight so come a culture seen simply go back to normal afterwards i actually doubt that we will go back to normal so the question really is you know how does the current situation also of the economic situation affect future projects and culture and how are we looking at ourselves specially in a cultural nation like germany you've also suggested that the cultural scene itself

has been too silent during the pandemic so what exactly can artists like yourself do. first of all i think artists are not necessarily a collective of course orchestras can be but the challenge even there is you know to to to make a collective out of a lot of lot of talented artists and of course individuals so how can an artist be on strike that's the question that we have to raise and i think the pandemic is more than a good reason to get together and think how to protect the cultural scene for the next decades and the artists have to get together and that's basically what we do you know we raise our voices and there's been so many examples in the past. and exactly that standing up and speaking out has been another theme of 2020 in many countries we've seen protests both for and against coronavirus nationals but that's far from any topic on the agenda all across the globe people including many in the

cultural sphere of been shining a spotlight on issues of injustice and discrimination demanding to be heard. hong kong support democracy movement has vowed to fight on but after a year of unrest that rocked the territory street protests fizzled out in june when mainland china used its controversial new national security law. beijing has since launched a campaign against dissent pressing legal charges against leading opposition figures including activist joshua long mean early december he was handed his 3rd jail term hong kong's autonomy appears to be crumbling. dello russo has been gripped by the biggest protest in its history since the disputed presidential election in august for months tens of thousands of opposition supporters have turned out for peaceful weekend rallies against the vote that's widely believed to have been rigged undeterred by a brutal police crackdown protesters are calling for authoritarian leader alexander

lukashenko to step down one of his most outspoken critics is the nobel prize winning author alexia bitch she has consistently warned against violence. any must stick together they must not back down and for god's sake we must not be the ones to spill drugs and go from upward we must win with our spirit in the strength of our values see it with stick with 3 bush did after facing harassment and intimidation at home spent a lot on legs the of it arrived in berlin for medical treatment in september the celebrated writer was received by the german president she insists she will return to bella reuss if the. authorities later. poland women took to the streets a law banning most abortions triggered the biggest protests in the country since the collapse of communism. the documentary the battle for our voices the company's

women fighting for their rights in the capital warsaw. yeah. yeah i didn't want to tell you what i was going to be forever like i don't believe they're going to get through japanese yet and yet. the hope is to show that activism can inspire women everywhere like the chance and dance moves that have resonated across the globe. in the u.s. protesters demanded an end to police violence against african-americans which they say is rooted in systemic racism. after the killings of eric garner in george floyd director spike lee undercut footage of his 1989 do the right thing with other images of arrests that ended in

death. do the right thing is based upon real life chokehold murder. and then again. not just by. strangulation. worldwide protests statues were toppled in streets renamed it triggered an impassioned debate on racism in the legacy of colonialism. the calls for more diversity in. artists and institutions for years to come. up magazines recently named the black lives not a movement as the most influential force in art in 2020 so i'd like to bring this back to you're a jazz musician how is this protest movement going to affect the music scene. i

think jazz music comes out of protest that's the main message behind that and i think it's important to find out you know what cultural influences you know in the art business we have been noticing this year because it has been very slow in fact thinking about the black lives matter movement you know as a. as an artistic influence that's a good that's a good idea and i believe it i want i want to go into it myself you know let's find out what could you imagine taking away from from the purchase culture. i think musicians have a long tradition of protesting look at live aid you know which is like decades ago and people are listening to artists it's actually are it's is about the unusual thing it's going outside of reality to be able to come back into reality that's one of the main laws in the arts in the so protest is one as well so i could at the end here what we've had less well actually losing something from from the social side

and society. i'm very much afraid that the business which is not only a business it's a culture will suffer badly from what we're going through right now i'm a teacher to myself at the university so there's young students female male all of them asking ok how am i going to to build a profession out of this know looking up what's happening around me i don't see much of a future and i have to have an answer to that so i tried to spread enough optimism . as good as i can but it's different. well they were a little more for children and later of course raising your voice doesn't necessarily mean taking to the streets during lockdown people all over the world have used social media to join the debate and to release some of their pent up

creativity one of the newest platforms in town tick-tock began essentially is a bit of fun but in recent months the entertainment factor has taken on an increasingly political edge. 2 or i will not have my hair. personally i think one of the most heartwarming things to come out of lockdown is teenagers doing dance routines with their parents. music and dance it's been really powerful tools this year in terms of spreading

some much needed positivity and also bringing people around the world together take the jerusalem and dance challenge for example it's all firefighters medical stuff and even joining in the fun. of course all this reminds us that 2020 is also the year we all went digital from online classes to business meetings even doctor's appointments so much of our daily lives have now moved online artists have had to get particularly creative to reach their audiences digitally but also like. usually people come in crowds to see start to camera carpentering concert. but this year in the pandemic he decided to go on tour performing outside care homes in his electronic churchill. 6 cultural life gives us something to live for that is

more than just eating drinking survivor. with a doctor along dr del aparna this is the time to be creative she's brought together a group of star musicians from 14 countries to play in the impossible to construct . music. it's impossible orchestra because of an almost situation if i had called them up they would have said that sounds great but i have this concert and that concert and we can plan it for 2024 so i never would have not been without it but suddenly everyone was 3. 100. he's using this fundraiser project to draw attention to the plight of women in her native mexico was it also supports all female bands coming from one hucker that usually depend on income from live concerts this year they recorded an

album. though that we are in what i did because of the expenses for the recording studio we were hoping to start paying off our debts with these performances or by selling our studio these go this is what we had planned they would get them. in austria at the annual south's book festival took place in the summer braving the pandemic with strict hygiene measures in place and heavy financial losses. it might have been ashamed of our faint hearted ness if we hadn't held the festival this new fish festival was founded in even harsher times directly after the 1st world war when hunger and hardship were widespread praise from.

the salzburg festivals of 100th anniversary ended up much smaller and shorter than planned but for conductor yolanda moffett's despite the difficulties involved in performing in a pandemic there is a positive side the unique atmosphere it's a mix most interesting there was a complete silence and it stayed that way for the entire duration of the performance so maybe the sense of returning to what's important making a big fast less talking kind of opening night parties and receptions just music. because it. live music that was even possible at the south spoke festival this year was a little short of a miracle what's it feel like brought us right now you can't what are you missing the life performance. it's my profession on one hand but that's really what i do

even if i wouldn't. make a living out of it you know that's what i do i mean musician source being on stage performing live in front of an audience feeling the positive sort of pressure that comes along with it is a great thing to do i miss it very much we miss it. and of course we're all hoping for much more real life culture than if you and i can't quite believe my luck i'm about to close out 2020 with a live performance taken away to school. c c 7

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