On this World Circus Day, En Piste, the national association for circus arts, invites you to share the following letter on your social media. To encourage all circus enthusiasts to join the movement. To flood the inboxes of your Members of Parliament, ministers, and councillors. We must make our voices heard, we must roar.
This letter is a call for collective action, a heartfelt plea to recognize the importance of art in our Quebec society.
Join the Movement, this is just the Beginning!
To collectively recognize the importance of art in our Quebec society.
On this World Circus Day, I unite my voice with those of circus artists and workers, concerned about the health and sustainability of live arts as we know them today.
The last budget of Quebec’s Minister of Finance was voted on March 12, and what was allocated to Culture signals a dismantling of the live arts sector and an existential crisis for an entire industry already in a state of survival.
I join my voice with all those who will no longer be able to sustain their projects, since the budgets allocated to CALQ to support cultural organizations and artists are the same for 2024-2025 as they were in 2017-2018, without increase, without indexation.
Our creation, production, service, dissemination, and education organizations allow art to exist, flourish, and constantly renew itself. Not supporting them adequately means further weakening an ecosystem that is still suffering the impacts of the pandemic.
Without adequate financial support, artists cannot have creative spaces, time, and training.
Art dies out.
Without proper financial support, organizations struggle to offer a minimum of programming for the public and artists.
Art falters.
Without real financial support, our skilled workforce deserts the sector for other more secure industries.
Art is depleted.
Today, I recognize this reality and unite my voice in an urgent quest for support to preserve the vitality of our art and culture.
Long live culture, long live art, long live circus!
You are invited to add a personal sentence.
To download the letter, click here.
Photo credit: Acting for Climate Mtl, Branché_Adrien Malette-Chénier, Anna Soltys Morse, Anne-Marie Godin, Clara Scudder-Davis, Eric Bates, Heidi Blais, Nathan Biggs-Penton, Sorrell Nielsen, Tristan Nielson_photo Valentin Belleville