“We, elected officials from small towns in France and actors in private performing arts, reaffirm the fundamental importance of culture in our territories” | EUROtoday

DIn a context of robust budgetary constraints, we affirm that investing in tradition means investing within the cohesion, well being, training and attractiveness of our municipalities. The presence of cultural amenities and occasions will increase the attractiveness and affect of cities and contributes to considerably creating social bonds and conviviality. Since the tip of the 2010s, even earlier than Covid-19 amplified the phenomenon, many residents of huge metropolises have chosen to settle in our “human-sized” communities, in the hunt for a extra peaceable residing surroundings, native providers and dynamic native life.

Mayors of small cities from all walks of life, we now have positioned tradition on the coronary heart of our tasks and our political motion. Because it’s a issue of social cohesion, high quality of residing collectively, particular person and collective growth, as a result of it contributes to the training of younger and outdated, and since it participates of their emancipation. Culture is just not an choice, it’s a base, a standard good to be cultivated.

Among the cultural choices of our municipalities, stay efficiency occupies a particular place and performs a specific function insofar because it brings collectively residents within the coronary heart of our cities in the identical space-time, across the similar expertise shared between human beings: those that are on the stage or within the room.

If the second of the present constitutes the excessive level of this expertise, there may be additionally a earlier than and after present: we e-book, we put together, we speak about it round us, we go together with household or buddies, we now have a drink earlier than or after, we share a meal, we replay the present, typically the world. All this weaves hyperlinks, creates commonality. The stay present is rather more than a easy financial engine: it’s a creator of hyperlinks, shared moments, feelings and customary wishes.

Centers of attractiveness

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