The orchestra Gothenburg wind orchestra, which has been in existence since 1905, has for 2020 sought an operating subsidy of SEK 5,493,000. But the city's cultural committee has instead decided to halve the support from the current SEK 4 million to SEK 2 million, the Gothenburg-Posten reports.
- If we don't get more funding then we have to put down, says Martin Söderlund, longtime trombonist in the orchestra, to GP.
The committee has made the decision in line with the recommendation of the cultural administration.
- On the part of the administration, we have argued for the policy that the need for free cultural life is increasing at the same time as the support is not developing. We have no more funds than we have, and now it is distributed, says Anna Rosengren, director of Gothenburg's cultural management, to the newspaper.