• Entertainment professionals have occupied the Graslin theater in Nantes since the beginning of March.

  • This Thursday, the dialogue seems broken between the collective and the management, who asked them to leave the place.

Already eighty days. Two and a half months after its installation in the Graslin theater in Nantes, the collective of intermittent du spectacle is still there. This Thursday, like almost every day at 1 p.m., a microphone was released for the agora, which stands in front of the imposing columns of the opera house covered with banners and slogans. Gone are the good-natured atmosphere of the beginnings in which GA and artistic performances took place. After a meeting with the management this Wednesday evening, the collective is angry: “The director practices an inadmissible blackmail. In March, he welcomed us and today he asks us to leave, otherwise he will cancel the scheduled shows. "

While places of culture began to reopen their doors on May 19, the mobilized entertainment professionals, who are between ten and 20 sleeping there, do not intend to leave their HQ.

"What we are asking is to be able to reconcile occupation and public reception," pleads Martine Ritz, member of the SFA-CGT union.

In recent days, there have been rehearsals, recordings here, and everything has gone well.

The goal is not to prevent those who are lucky enough to be able to work from doing so.

We want spectators to come back but also to be able to be informed of our demands.

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The cultural assistant supports the demands

Because according to the artists involved, the gradual reopening of cinemas, museums or performance halls does not resolve the situation of cultural players. “The problem is that there is no real support plan, explains Pierre, actor. We are asking for a real extension of the white year, but also the abandonment of the reform of unemployment insurance. For the moment, we have only obtained crumbs from the ministry when we risk suffering this crisis for several years to come! "

While several occupied places have been evacuated by the police, as in Bordeaux or more recently in Rennes, such a scenario is not on the program in the city of the Dukes. Showing several times his support for the demands of the artists mobilized and "fearing a collapse in Nantes' cultural life", the cultural assistant Aymeric Seasseau (PCF) also hopes for more responses from the government. "However, we hope that the opera can reopen to the public and end its season," indicated the elected at

20 Minutes on

Wednesday. Discussions will have to be held together to define the conditions for the return of spectators. "

If the dialogue seems today broken, the situation will have to change soon.

In mid-June, the theater should theoretically host screenings as part of the Spanish Film Festival.

A little later the performances of the Savages are scheduled, a show designed and performed by students from Breil and Dervallières, and whose rehearsals are due to begin soon.

Contacted, the general manager of Angers-Nantes opéra has not yet responded to our requests.

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