“This is not a desire to cry, I do not believe that artists who complain about these things are crybabies”. With those words, the actress and host of the cultural program Hora 25 on TVN, Blanca Lewin, referred to the precarious support that creators receive from the Government, which, although it exists, “the amounts assigned They are not for living in peace”he confessed to Culto de La Tercera.
His words recall the sayings issued some time ago by his colleague Magdalena Max Neef, when he criticized that actors “are the cryiest ones there are. We are crying all the time. There are some people who win the Fondart five years in a row, don’t win it one year and begin to allege that ‘the government does not support culture’”, He said after the criticism made by Amparo Noguera and Alfredo Castro against the Government of President Gabriel Boric.
However, Lewin clarifies the point, arguing that more than victims they are brave fighters, literally, for the love of art.
“This is not a desire to cry, I do not believe that artists who complain about these things are crybabies. No one is less a victim than the performing arts guild. We are still struggling despite everything, despite the precariousness, and we are a strong scene that continues to produce things, that continues to perform, even though we only have one weekend of performance and we have to rehearse for three months,” he said regarding how they carry out their cultural activity, despite limited funding.
“There are not too many resources”
“We are an example of resistance in art. When people come out to ask for support and everything, it is not that they are whining and playing victims that they cannot work, because we are all working very hard,” she clarified.
Furthermore, with respect to competitive funds, it recognizes that although ““They cannot be given to everyone, because there are many people, there has to be something like that,” He highlighted, criticizing that in some governments the support has been better than in others.
“There have been very interesting things that have been done in different administrations, in others unfortunately not, but over time it has become a kind of secretariat,” he indicated.
Finally, he also stressed that if they earn a profit, it is not to throw the house out of the window, since they are only enough to survive.
“(Winning a fund) It is quite a lottery, we continue with our super precarious work, we are temporary workers. There are not too many resources that are distributed. So there are people who earned it and will be able to do projects, good, but also The amounts assigned are not amounts to live in peace. In the end, one is there juggling,” she stated.
Currently, Lewin presents the last performances of the play Kelü at the Teatro Universidad Católica, together with Adriana Stuven and the director Ana López Montaner.
