Performing arts associations break with Cort and accuse the Director of Culture of “mistreatment and contempt”

PalmThe main performing arts professional associations of the Balearic Islands – APCIB (circus), APDIB (dance), AAAPIB (actors and actresses), Illescena (performing arts companies), ADIB (playwrights), and Mesa (practical educators who deal with abuse) – have denounced threats from the Director General of Culture of the Palma City Council, Rafel Brunet. The organizations consider this behavior "absolutely intolerable" and have announced the severing of all institutional relations with the City Council. According to them, they have tried for months to resolve the conflicts through "dialogue and constructive means," but without receiving any response or sign of willingness to collaborate from the Department of Culture. "Brunet and Councilor Javier Bonet are no longer valid interlocutors," the associations state, accusing the City Council of generating "lack of coordination, distrust, and widespread unease" within the sector. The organizations also reject the public statements made by Brunet and Bonet, who accused APCIB of "sectarianism and favoritism." The circus association maintains that its selections for the Palma Circus Cycle were transparent and consensual, and accuses the Director of Culture of having "unilaterally intervened" in the selection of companies, deliberately excluding proposals from association members. "The truly sectarian attitude comes from Mr. Brunet," they state. Furthermore, the associations denounce a lack of transparency in the management of projects and public funds, an absence of dialogue with the sector, and unilateral decisions that would have led to the disappearance of initiatives such as the program Although much and the Dramatized readings, Among other things, they also criticize the elimination of collaboration agreements with professional organizations, which, they say, "has impoverished Palma's cultural fabric." The organizations demand an immediate reversal and the restoration of channels for institutional participation, as well as the reinstatement of the eliminated projects. "Palma's culture needs ethical, professional, and collaborative management, based on respect and transparency," they conclude. The six organizations maintain that culture is "a common good and a citizen's right" and demand urgent solutions to reverse "the institutional decline and loss of cohesion" they denounce.