Still Standing !

Here’s why:
We do not deny anything about the health crisis—the dangers, the vaccine, etc. However, there is one thing that we find hard to swallow, and that will linger for a long time: In the absence of arguments based on scientific studies proving that certain sectors are particularly at risk, the government arbitrarily decided what it deemed not as "risky" but as "non-essential."
While in reality, culture had already been regarded by public authorities as non-essential, publicly declaring it will have consequences whose impact we cannot yet measure. This declaration sets the tone for those who govern us, the society they are building, and the values they uphold. Literature, dance, theater, music, and cinema have just been officially relegated to the status of leisure and entertainment.
These people who govern us have clearly absorbed all the economic treaties, but despite quoting them, they have not read Les Misérables, they have not listened to Ces gens-là, they have not understood Guernica, they have not seen The Bicycle Thief, they have not incorporated The Animals Sick with the Plague, and they have not shuddered at The Rite of Spring.
We can clearly see this in the mediocrity of their speeches, which no longer convey any humanist ideology. They deny their affiliation with left or right ideas, considering them outdated.
In fact, they have no other vision for the City than that of "economic health," and what they have decided over the past year is the most striking illustration of this. This declaration denies the impact of culture on humanism, empathy, creativity, spiritual elevation, and mental health; more than just denying it, it asserts that our existence should be reduced to earning money to consume while making as little noise as possible.
Tomorrow, we will be even less essential when it comes to restoring the sacred economy. Culture is a bit like climate change: all politicians talk about it, especially in the face of disaster, but no one acts with awareness.

This is why we, as a team, have decided to create a small wave, dreaming that it is a collection of waves that creates storms.