5342  MACRI Cancels Tango Festival in Argentina

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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:06:44 EST
From: TangoFantasy@aol.com
Subject: [Tango-L] MACRI Cancels Tango Festival in Argentina
To: tango-l@mit.edu


This was just received from Olga Besio in Buenos Aires.
Anybody cares to translate?
Thanks,
Lydia Henson

Macri suspende Festival de Tango


(_carosimon@hotmail.com_ (mailto:carosimon@hotmail.com) ) Enviado:

jueves, 13 de diciembre de 2007 14:55:45


Para:




Estimados m?sicos, bailarines, profesores, organizadores de milongas,
fot?grafos, dibujantes, docentes, medios de prensa y todos aquellos que desde 1998
han sido parte, cada uno desde su lugar, del Festival Buenos Aires Tango, de
los Campeonatos Metropolitano y Mundial de Baile de Tango, y de la web
Tangodata :


El pr?ximo Festival Buenos Aires Tango, ocasi?n en que la ciudad celebrar?a
por d?cima vez nuestro g?nero ciudadano, no ser? una ocasi?n de festejo, como
muchos hab?amos imaginado. Las autoridades de Cultura de la gesti?n que
asumi? el ?ltimo fin de semana nos han comunicado la suspensi?n del evento. Lo
hicieron justamente el 11 de diciembre, aunque dudo que sepan qu? deb?a
festejarse ese d?a.

Cabe se?alar que esta decisi?n fue tomada sin haber conversado con ninguno
de nosotros acerca de qu? era lo que estaba armado, a qu? artistas se hab?a
convocado, qu? espacios estaban involucrados, es decir, sin evaluar cu?les
ser?an las consecuencias de la decisi?n ni qui?nes resultar?an perjudicados.

La instalaci?n nacional e internacional de Tangodata y de los eventos de
Tango que hasta el viernes organizaba el Gobierno de la Ciudad fue una ardua
tarea que ven?a desarroll?ndose desde hace a?os, incluso desde la ?poca en que
el actual Ministro de Cultura, Hern?n Lombardi, era Subsecretario de Turismo
de la Ciudad.

Lamentablemente, hoy vemos que el vaciamiento del ?rea de Tango y del resto
de los Festivales es una estrategia planeada desde hace tiempo, lo que queda
demostrado en la celeridad y la violencia con que implementaron este cambio,
que se parece bastante a una demolici?n. El martes, primer d?a h?bil de la
gesti?n macrista, llegamos a lo que hasta entonces eran nuestras oficinas y nos
encontramos con que los carteles que indicaban los espacios de los distintos
eventos hab?an sido arrancados. Ese mismo d?a la flamante Coordinadora
General de Producci?n nos comunic? que el Festival se suspend?a, que cambiar?an la
estructura de la Direcci?n y que todos ?bamos a ser reasignados a otras
tareas y en otros espacios f?sicos. Ayer, mi?rcoles, fuimos invitados a desalojar
las oficinas, vaciar las computadoras y retirar nuestros efectos personales
de ellas. Nos otorgar?n "francos compensatorios" hasta el 15 de enero y temo
lo que ese d?a pueda ocurrir.

No s?lo se est? despreciando un proyecto que llev? a?os construir, sino que
tambi?n se desprecian los recursos humanos y el conocimiento que formamos a
lo largo de diez a?os.

Pido disculpas a todos los convocados para ser parte del Festival que ya no
ser?. Probablemente, haya pecado de ingenua y hasta de optimista, pero
sinceramente este escenario no lo so?? ni en la peor de mis pesadillas. A su vez,
agradezco que nos hayan acompa?ado todos estos a?os y que nos hayan permitido
trabajar con ustedes, disfrutando de su arte, de sus conocimientos y de todos
ustedes como personas.

Tambi?n quiero expresar mi enorme gratitud a todos los que formaron parte
del equipo, los que est?n y los que estuvieron. Les agradezco el trabajo, la
entrega, el compromiso y la pasi?n que pusieron. El ?xito y el prestigio
innegables que logramos construir (y el macrismo viene a destruir) fue posible
porque entre todos lo hicimos posible.

Espero encontrarme con muchos de ustedes en situaciones m?s felices. Muchas
gracias,

Mar?a Carolina Sim?n
DNI 16 964 516
15 5967-9978

PD : quienes quieran expresar su desacuerdo con las medidas tomadas por el
actual Gobierno de la Ciudad pueden escribir a gmichear@yahoo.com.ar (Gabriela
Michetti) y a hlombardi@fibertel.com.ar (Hern?n Lombardi).
Obviamente los tel?fonos y los emails por medio de los cuales sol?amos
comunicarnos ya no son v?as v?lidas.











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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:28:27 -0800
From: "Igor Polk" <ipolk@virtuar.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] MACRI Cancels Tango Festival in Argentina
To: <tango-l@mit.edu>

SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, DEAR Mary Simon Carolina?
Do it like we do it: on your own !

Igor Polk.
PS
Here is an approximage ( automatic) translation:
( it took me long time to introduce line breaks. Thanks for your help, dear
List-Hosts ! )

* * *
Dear musicians, dancers, teachers, organizers milongas, photographers,
cartoonists, teachers,
media and all those who since 1998 have been part, each from his own place,
the Buenos Aires
Tango Festival, the Metropolitan Championships and World Tango Dance, and
the web Tangodata:
The next Buenos Festival Aires Tango, when the city held for the tenth time
our gender citizen,
it will not be an occasion for celebration, as many had imagined.

Authorities Culture management took last weekend have reported the
suspension of the event.

They did so precisely on 11 December, but I doubt they know what they should
festejarse that day.

It should be noted that this decision was taken without any discussion with
us
about what was armed, what artists had been called, what spaces were
involved,
ie without assessing what would be
the consequences of the decision or who would harmed.

The installation national and international Tangodata and events that
Tango until Friday organized by the city government was
an arduous task that had taken many years,
even since the time that the current Minister of Culture, Hernan Lombardi
was
Assistant Secretary of Tourism of the city. Unfortunately, today we see that
emptying
the area of Tango and the rest of the festival is a long-planned strategy,
which is demonstrated by the speed and
violence that implemented this change, which is rather like a demolition.
On Tuesday, the first working day of the management macrista,
we come to what until then had our offices and we find
that the signs indicating the spaces of the various events had been
uprooted.
On the same day the newly General Coordinator Production informed us
that the festival was discontinued, which would change the structure of the

Directorate and all we were going to be reassigned to other duties and other
physical spaces.

Yesterday, Wednesday, we were invited to vacate the offices, emptying
withdraw our computers and personal effects from them.
We provide "compensatory francs" until January 15 and I fear what may happen
that day.

Not only is flouting a project that took years to build, but also despise
human

resources and knowledge that formed over ten years.
I apologize to all those invited to be part of the festival no longer.
Probably he had sinned of naive and even optimistic, but honestly
this scenario is not what I dreamed nor the worst of my nightmares.
In turn, I am grateful that we have together all these years and
have allowed us to work with you, enjoying their art, their knowledge and
all of you as individuals.

I also wish to express my great gratitude to all those who were part of the
team,
and those who were. Thank labor, delivery, commitment and passion that
brought.
The success and prestige undeniable that we managed to build
(and pro - Macri forces came to destroy) was possible because we did
all possible. I hope to meet many of you in situations happier.

Thank you, Mary Simon Carolina DCI 1696451615 5967-9978
PS: those who want to express their disagreement with the
measures taken by the current government of
the City can write to gmichear@yahoo.com.ar (Gabriela Michetti) and
hlombardi @ fibertel . com.ar (Hernan Lombardi).
Obviously phones and emails through which we used to
communicate are no longer valid ways.





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