Culture|Cultural cuts
The operating conditions are still being investigated, and the matter will then be discussed with the city government.
Kemi City Theater and the threat of winding up the city orchestra shifts. The matter was decided at a meeting of the municipal welfare committee on Tuesday, says Kemi’s director of welfare Kaisa Rauvala.
The municipality’s welfare department had planned savings by closing down both the city theater and the city orchestra, due to the decline in the municipality’s population in the coming years.
However, an amendment was proposed at the meeting of the Welfare Board, according to which the theater will not be closed down and the matter will be re-prepared. It is based on a model created by the city theater itself.
The board elected Petri Jäärnin to serve on a temporary basis as a theater director and also for a working group preparing for future activities.
The board of the Kemi City Orchestra also proposed an amendment to the board, according to which its supranational operating conditions will be clarified before the decision to liquidate.
He was the first to report on the decisions of the Kemi Welfare Board The People of Lapland.
Municipal welfare industry has estimated that the closure of the Kemi City Theater would save half a million euros and the closure of the orchestra 40 million euros.
The Actors ‘Association appealed to Kemi’s decision-makers as early as Monday on behalf of the city theater, and now the Musicians’ Union has reacted to the plan to abolish the Kemi City Orchestra.
According to the association, the savings will be so small that “the question arises as to whether the sense of proportionality was blurred when the proposal was made”.
According to the association, the cultural offerings in the area would be significantly reduced with the termination of the orchestra, the city’s music professionals would seek out elsewhere, and more advanced music students would miss out on the orchestra experience, which would reduce their chances of a professional music career.
The future of both the city theater and the city orchestra will next be discussed at the Kemi City Government on March 28th.
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