The Mendoza passage hall went from paying $1,400 to $13,717. Likewise, the salon located on San Martín de Trelew Street changed from 1,800 to 55,446 pesos. The president of the Italian Association of Trelew indicated that they are “hanging by a thread.”
Last week, Sandra Liberatti, president of the Italian Trelew Association, visited FM EL CHUBUT and described the difficult economic situation of cultural entities in the city, and in particular the one he presides over. In that sense, he indicated requesting some possibility of help for support in general.
The theater, the association’s main income, has been shut down since December. While the halls of the passage do have activity.
Although this was the first gas bill with a large increase, the association expressed its concern about what will happen when the theater begins activities and the national government applies the increases that are currently suspended.
“Today what happens to the Italian associations also happens to the rest, to the Spanish, to the Portuguese, to the Welsh, to the Basques, to everyone,” he mentioned.
Liberatti expressed, in an interview with FM El Chubut, that the economic situation and stated that in addition to the events that occur, they are financed through the corporate fee. “Until May, it was $400 a month.” In this regard, he pointed out that this income is minimal, “it is not enough for us to cover almost anything,” he stated and added that “they feed on events, although he emphasized that this year the Verdi Theater closed its doors in “December with events, January and February nothing, and in March we generally already had productions. Now we have the first event in June.”
The president of the association also states that “the producers who always used to come to the theater are also having a hard time moving the productions to be able to bring them. So, this is a chain. Unfortunately, it is a chain where, well, we all fall.”
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Regarding the expenses for the services, he stated that They are large due to the size of the facilitiesalthough he highlighted that they continue to rent the event room and “it is quite in demand, it is at a very affordable price. However, he pointed out that many of this year’s reservations were made before the devaluation at the beginning of the year and that with that amount “Now we do not cover anything.” According to inflation, the new prices for event hall rentals are tied to inflation.
“The corporate fees are minimal, we have the party room rented, and there is one of the rooms that is permanently rented. And then, nothing. Now, honestly, we are hitting rock bottom,” he said.
“We are trying to solve it by doing things, like for example, now we are going to have dinner for Italian Immigrant and Republic Day, which we traditionally do during the week of June,” he announced.
