Volume II — Number 67
June 2014
Monthly Newsletter
Barbara Idzikowska With blinkers.
Newsletters
M. A. Carretero.
Another beach by the Department of Culture of our City. In one of the last days of last May called me first thing in the morning a female voice identified as "Culture" to inform me that they could not authorize the concert the next day 20 because a conference held at the MAVA. I drew a lot of attention that called for two reasons.
Nuestra sede: Castillo Grande de S.J. de Valderas Avda. Los Castillos, s/n 28925 ALCORCÓN. (MADRID)
The first, which we had not asked the Department of Culture of our City Auditorium granting MAVA, if not to the Department of Arts and Museums, as was the MAVA competence of Culture, but now it was the Department of Arts and Museums, as already announced in our Newsletter Editorial last April.
Therefore, I should have called this new Department 's refusal to communicate to our request, which bears the date of entry in the Reinfo@amigosmava.org gister of the City last May 6.
ted in the program that we included on page 11 of this Newsletter, so perfectly could be performed concert at seven in the evening of that same day.
ment that would cause them to greater efforts. Kafkaesque but true.
So last May 30 to submit a letter requesting Logging rectifying the date of the day It exposed these reasons to 20 of 27. Expect not to have my correspondent, merely major difficulties with this repeating that they could not new application. authorize the concert for With this concert will finish Congress theme. the school year 2013/2014, As I have enough experien- having made over this period ce in similar previous cases, a total of nine concerts at the and since logical reasoning Auditorium of MAVA monthly does not seem to have a pla- and one cycle of piano comce in certain parts of the civil posed of six concerts in the service establishment of our Auditorium of the ConservaCity, I suggested the possibi- tory of Music "Manuel de Fality of changing the date as lla" of our city, on a weekly reflected in the application basis. by next Friday, is say , to the 27th of the same month. The Our "MAVA Concert" program we consider it very imanswer, as was suspected immediately that I had to re- portant for two main reasons: apply. 1. We work to support the culture of our city by the A no-brainer as the top of a type of educational conpine pleasure given by the certs we program and free. bureaucracy that prevails in some areas of our City.
2. We bring large crowds to our museum, so visitors to Recall , on that pleasure by your permanent collection bureaucracy, the express and, where appropriate, prohibition of an official of the temporary increase. the Department of Culture of The second, which the the practice of making an ap- On our last concert last May Congress program Blown Glass Art and Science, the plication for authorization of 16, conducted by the School of Music and Dance Dagansessions ended in the mor- the use of the auditorium zo, make a tour of the MAVA ning of the 20th, as it is sta- MAVA for several dates, having to do it individually for to the families of the stueach a concert and a month dents of this school visit, whibefore the completion of le they performed prior to each of them. their performance tests. And this, not by administrative procedural requirements, but because they were "overwhelmed" with work and could not accept a docu-
Satisfaction shown by these people for the tour and for the realization of the concert was more than evident.