Confinement by covid-19 was a challenge for the arts

The presence of covid-19 changed the dynamics of cultural sector in the country and in the world. The artists and managers left the physical settings to move to the digital platforms and to social networks.

The quarantine global, in early March, forced the closure of museums, auditoriums, movie theaters and libraries. He economic impact he was a millionaire.

He Metropolitan Museum of New York estimated the loss at about USD 150 million and The meadow de Madrid did so for more than USD 20 million.

The online world became one of the best allies of the artistic spaces and cultural. Art galleries used it to display the work of young artists.

One of the most interesting bets was that of Q Gallery, which inaugurated Q Virtual, an online room that recreated the experience of physical space.

In Ecuador, museums and cultural centers opened as the restrictions they decreased in each canton. It had to be implemented protocols of biosecurity and social distancing for its progressive reopening.

In Quito, this happened later than in the rest of the country. The first space to reopen in the capital was the Center for Contemporary Art, at the beginning of September, as part of a pilot plan of the City Museums Foundation.

The theaters and the event rooms foreigners experience a similar problem. The New York Metropolitan Opera will be closed until September 2021. Broadway theaters hope to open the following June.

In virtual they appeared from concerts and plays up exhibitions art and book launches. Festivals, such as the International Living Arts StoreThey also adapted their programming to this new reality. Others, such as the International Festival of Puppets with Drums and Cymbals, postponed its edition until next year and thus offer a complete billboard to its public.

In the country, the National COE authorized the reopening of theaters and auditoriums as of last September, with 30% capacity and virtual assistance was maintained. The Sucre National Theater reopened its doors on September 26 with a tribute to Gerardo Guevara.

According to data from the Comprehensive Cultural Information System (SIIC), estimates of the losses for him artistic sector and cultural, only between the months of March to May 2020, they were USD 70 million. Likewise, this report indicates that the economic reactivation During the period from June to October, it allowed a recovery in the sector of approximately USD 69 million.

He impact in the artists and craftsmenHowever, it is profound, according to the Survey of Working Conditions in Arts and Culture Workers, prepared by the Observatory of Policies and Economics of Culture. Some 2,500 people participated in this report.

The losses and pessimism among cultural workers are summarized in this sentence from the document: Respondents estimate their losses average income of USD 1,350 during the first month and a half of confinement and 72% think that the losses are definitive.

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