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Some people may look at Esteban Ocon’s 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix win, the first of his F1 career, as an outcome of chance – a side-effect of

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Artists in Greece are fighting for their rights and accessible culture for all

Her powerful voice resonates across the empty theatre. Actress and director Fotini Banou is preparing for a performance, “even though we don’t know when we’ll reopen,” she says. In mid-March, the Greek government decided to close cinemas, theatres, museums, archaeological sites, schools, universities and essentially all common spaces (except for supermarkets, pharmacies, hospitals and doctors’ offices) in order to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the country which has seen 4,279 cases to date, including 203 deaths. A scenario similar to the one that occurred in Italy would be a disaster for Greece, where the health system has suffered under ten years of austerity policies.

Since 18 May, the Acropolis of Athens has once again been accessible to the public, as are all of the country’s archaeological sites and museums. Open-air cinemas have been open to the public since June. Indoor theatres, however, remain closed. Banou and her colleague Dimitris Alexakis are currently waiting for official authorisation to reopen the curtains at TV Control Center (also known as KET), a theatre for artistic, social and political experimentation they founded together in the Kypseli district in the heart of Athens.

While their main source of income relies on revenue sharing between artists, “a sustainable cash flow through perseverance,” as they deal with the crisis provoked by COVID-19 they cannot count on the help of a state with, according to Banou, “no tradition of helping independent artists” and public debt that amounts to roughly 180 per cent of GDP. Since opening their theatre in 2012, Alexakis and Banou have received no financial support from the successive governments of the last few years. Though the culture minister Lina Mendoni insisted in late May that there would be “no summer 2020 without culture,” the decisions made mostly in favour of historical heritage sites and public institutions have left those outside of official circles to fend for themselves.

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A new friend

I may change my lioness cubs name tbh

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Johannesburg: xJazz Live Performance - 2 October 2018

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