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Given the known state of the progress of the Coronavirus and pandemic declared by the World Health Organization, in the last hours a meeting between the owners of the Culture was carried out of the Nation, City and Province of Buenos Aires.
In that context, and with the aim of developing different actions to address emergencies and needs of the cultural sector at the moment, Minister of Culture Nation, Tristan Bauer, town, Enrique Avogadro and Minister of Production, Science and Technological Innovation of the Province of Buenos Aires, Augusto Costa, They gathered at the Cultural Center Kirchner (CCK) to work together and devise different strategies, actions and policies dealing with the situation that is going through.
First, officials agreed on the need to implement various digital tools to ensure and guarantee access to cultural and artistic expressions through different means, and immediately activate mechanisms to accompany the different sectors that make up the cultural field and are seriously affected by the impact of preventive work stoppage.
"We are in a context that requires us to bring the best of each and work together. With ministers Enrique Avogadro and Augusto Costa we want to ensure public cultural quality policy to continue to generate meeting spaces from the possibilities offered by new technologies and concrete policies that involve the operation of the various cultural expressions within the framework of the health crisis ", Bauer explained.
In the same line, the minister said Buenos Aires: "We want the culture to remain open and available to all. This joint initiative will allow the cultural go incorporating different digital platforms and any Argentine can, from home, enjoy a ballet or an opera, virtual guided visits to various cultural spaces, theater plays, lectures and workshops ".
Meanwhile, Augusto Costa said: "Right now we need to coordinate actions and measures to address the urgent needs of the cultural sector and creative industries. The nation, the province, City and municipalities will work together with representatives of culture to respond to each particular problem ".
In addition to ensuring digital access to culture, officials pledged to examine and promote economic measures to support the different sectors that are affected directly or indirectly in the context of health emergency.
"We believe that the different lines of funding must be focused on helping different sectors that are part of the culture that are affected having to interrupt their activity", Bauer said.
"We know that the closure of one night, a separate room, greatly affects. So we are, both Nation, Province and City, in contact with the sector evaluating possibilities together. We are worried, we present the, We understand the problems they are going through and are evaluating the various tools available ", He added Avogadro.
Minister of Culture of the Nation, Tristan Bauer, He recalled the words of Julio Cortazar: "I am convinced that these negative experiences can translate into positive story, but everything depends on us. Once again, should not be looking for figures that can save us, if we do not save us as a people, We will not save more”.
From all sectors of culture, They are carried out certain preventive measures by the Government. Cooperate to prevent movement and concentration of public diminishes the chances of transmission of the virus COVID-19.