- This Monday, some 120 workers from the Zorroza plant voted unanimously in favour of the occupation. On the occasion of COVID-19, the cultural centres of Ipar Euskal Herria have remained for almost a year without interruption – except in summer. Thus, about 70 theatres from all over the French State have been occupied on 22 March by their creators and actresses.
From the Odeon Theatre in Paris on March 4, the theatre occupation movement also extends to Iparralde. In particular, about 120 people voted in favour of the occupation of the Baiona theatre at the congress held on 22 March. The occupation will begin on Friday.
Artists, audiovisual technicians, intermittence, film or museum workers, as well as organizers of cultural events, have gathered the diversity in the congress inaugurated at 12:00 hours. Faced with the COVID-19 epidemic, cultural agents are in a difficult situation, precisely because they are all the cultural centers of the French Basque Country and the French State in general, in the inability to organize cultural events. The opening of cultural spaces is the demand that will sound through the occupation.
A general plan for culture
Cultural actors also read against the reform of unemployment insurance, "a reform that will make the poor even more precarious". They also call on the Government to guarantee the rights of the intermittents and a comprehensive plan of support for the cultural sector in general.
In total, about 70 theatres have been occupied on 22 March. On the other hand, the Grand Rond Theatre in Tolosa hosted three functions of theatre and disobedience this weekend, "to denounce the situation of the intermittent and then worrying".