With an audience ceiling of 500 people in the audience, the cultural industry has once again had to cancel, rebook and scale down.
During the day, the Moderates called for a press conference to propose more support for the cultural sector - an extra 2 billion in event support, which will be transformed to suit more people, and an extra billion in crisis support.
- You can not just have restrictions and then not give support to the industries that are hardest hit, says the Moderates' economic-political spokesperson Elisabeth Svantesson.
- It is difficult to say right now if what the government has presented is enough or if it is what the Moderates have presented that is required, says Minister of Culture Jeanette Gustafsdotter (S).
"There must be greater support"
The Liberals also believe that support has not kept pace with restrictions.
- As long as there are restrictions, there must be support and there must be greater support than those that exist today.
There are so many who are on their knees right now, who have used every opportunity they have to reduce all costs or adapt, says Christer Nylander, cultural policy spokesperson.
On Monday, Kulturnyheterna reported that only 65,254,000 of the allocated three billion in event support has been distributed.
"Reviewing the support"
The Green Party writes in an email to Kulturnyheterna that the event support should be converted into a crisis support that can be used throughout 2022. "In addition, the 960 million set aside for restart must be increased by another 500 million to secure the culture's long-term conditions," writes the Green Party's press secretary Sofia Guerrero.
The Minister of Culture can not promise any dates for notification of new - or transformed support, but says that you work as soon as possible.
- We are currently reviewing the event support and intend to come out with it as soon as possible, she says.