Madrid begins to recover its cultural activity with small steps. Museums, cinemas, exhibition halls, music rooms ... begin to lift the first blinds, but the coronavirus health crisis still affects an important part of the city's fabric, which will wait until the end of summer to resume its activity if it's possible. The Madrid City Council wants to act on this panorama to "prevent the closure of the cultural spaces that make up the city's identity".

So that this scenario does not occur, the Culture Area, according to EL MUNDO municipal sources, has a first line of direct subsidies that exceeds 4.4 million euros. The intention of the team led by Andrea Levy is that the call "be resolved in early August" and that the aid reaches the beneficiaries "in the month of September" , at which time many of them plan to resume the activity after six months closing.

Because this is a sine qua non condition for cultural spaces to access municipal help lines: " Commit to maintaining activity for at least one year after the end of the state of alarm ." This is reflected in the call, to which this newspaper has had access, which extends to "private companies and non-profit entities that have ownership of the room or space" and that "will develop a continuous and stable schedule" when the On March 14 the state of alarm was declared.

The objective is that those 4.4 million municipal money are used to meet "the expenses made between March 1 and September 30, 2020", that is, all those activities that cultural spaces have stopped doing so much during the validity of the state of alarm as in the de-escalation process and the progressive return to normality after the Covid crisis. A situation on which the delegate, Andrea Levy, already emphasized in an interview with this newspaper on May 3: «If a theater, music room or cinema closes, it is very difficult for them to reopen and Madrid cannot lose these spaces that generate culture ».

And these will be precisely the places that will benefit from budget aid that will subsidize the rental of premises, supply costs -water, electricity, gas, internet- and the extraordinary amounts derived from disinfection and cleaning by Covid prior to the opening with a maximum cap for each institution of 200,000 euros.

Private theaters will receive the largest amount of this package with 1,909,551 euros, the maximum being 30% of the budget that they present to the Madrid City Council. Theaters with the 1,172,500 euros will be located on the second step and, in this section, the Culture Area establishes two subdivisions. On the one hand there are the rooms in shopping malls to which 210,000 euros will be allocated with a maximum of 15% subsidy. And, on the other, independent cinemas with direct access from public roads where the amount amounts to 962,500 euros and the percentage to 25% because, according to the sources consulted, the corporation intends to "give priority to the historical cinemas in the center of Madrid."

Also the music halls and flamenco shows , that the Consistory declare good of general interest will have access to this line of support. 1,338,005 euros are reserved for both spaces, 50% of which is the maximum amount that can be subsidized in premises that, as EL MUNDO reported, totaled one million euros in monthly losses derived from the coronavirus health crisis when losing a An important part of their programming that is especially concentrated in the spring months.

This line of financial aid is also included in the plan presented by the Culture Area of ​​the City Council of the capital, on May 18, under the name Applaude Madrid, which also established aid to the publishing sector or solidarity bonuses for people in unemployment and toilets.

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