One of the most painful things I will remember about this pandemic is surely the closure of theaters and entertainment events. The rush to move everything online (where possible) made us forget what it feels like to enjoy a live show, at least for me it was like that. Throughout the lockdown, I lived the events in half, as was my dress code in the middle during the live shows: formal above, sweatpants below.
Then it happened, with the reopening I ended up on the other side, no longer a spectator but an “operator”, I found myself on a stage sharing an immense emotion with those who have been doing this job for a lifetime and I understand. I remembered what it means to move to see someone perform, and do it together with many other people, I felt the adrenaline and anxiety that rises when you understand that those people are there to live an experience, an experience that also depends at your place.
The restart of the live events is like pure oxygen for many artists who have seen their work put aside in the face of a protective action, which has however left intact other places of aggregation. In short, the famous “two weights and two measures” which, if it really has to be implemented, should at least be balanced with adequate support for those who are penalized. Seeing your work invalidated just because it is inherent in the sphere of culture and creativity is something that hurts a lot. As often happens, all of this has its roots in commonplace.
It is no mystery that culture and entertainment are considered second-class works and therefore expendable in times of crisis. In Italy there is a habit of belittling those who do an artistic / cultural work, and in my youth, when I was trying to figure out which path to take, in mentioning intentions of a creative nature one of the phrases I heard most often was “with culture you don’t eat”, or even more concrete work “. But as Venditti said, some loves do not end, they make immense turns and then return, and I did a huge tour and then came to one of those things you can hardly eat with, at most you have breakfast: writing.
The fact is that art, culture, entertainment are not strictly material goods, they are difficult to measure, they are elusive, priceless, and therefore considered niche, for a privileged few. This automatically makes them unnecessary products. The pandemic has greatly highlighted this thought through the choices our government has made, such as closing theaters and leaving churches open. It is evident, however, that this is only a perception, the truth is that a myriad of people work around culture and entertainment, and I am not referring only to those who take the stage.
I really hope that this restart will be able to make us understand all that we have lost, and that culture, art and entertainment are fundamental pillars for our country, also in economic terms. They are our nourishment for the soul.
In the face of those who say that culture does not eat.
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