Culture strike
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A culture strike involves the refusal of artist
s or art institutions (arts organizations, festival
s etc.) to respectively produce and show art
.
In October 2005 art institutions in Italy
held a culture strike in response to a proposal of the Italian government to cut the budget of a special arts fund by 40 percent. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051013/italy_culturestrike_20051013?s_name=&no_ads=
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s or art institutions (arts organizations, festival
Festival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
s etc.) to respectively produce and show art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
.
In October 2005 art institutions in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
held a culture strike in response to a proposal of the Italian government to cut the budget of a special arts fund by 40 percent. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051013/italy_culturestrike_20051013?s_name=&no_ads=