Museum directors protest against closure

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Museum directors protest against closure

Directors of renowned art museums in germany have protested in a letter against the closure of their houses due to the new corona regulations. "Recognizably, the policy has made an effort to take a differentiated approach in shaping the recent lockdown," the 36 directors shared.

Unfortunately, however, the cultural sector was once again affected to an extreme degree, and with it the museums, which were to be closed for several weeks for the second time this year. "With all understanding for the challenges that corona imposes on all of us, we think this is a wrong decision."

Museums are among the safest public places. The hygiene and distance rules developed since march, the limitation of the number of visitors and the consequent renunciation of openings and coarser events had been maintained. If the museums have now been closed again, this seems more like a symbolic gesture. "It is beyond us why it is possible to keep open hardware stores, car dealerships and other businesses, but close museums that have the same or more coarse draw areas for corona-appropriate public traffic."

Among the signatories are stephan berg, director of the kunstmuseum bonn, frederic bubmann, general director of the kunstsammlungen chemnitz, peter gorschluter, director of the folkwang museum essen, ulrike groos, director of the stuttgart art museum, alexander klar, director of the kunsthalle hamburg, eva kraus, director of the bundeskunsthalle in bonn and felix kramer, general director of the stiftung museum kunstpalast in dusseldorf.

There is a special blue in the sky that can be seen between dawn and sunset. Chansonniers refer to it, novelists too. Blue hour – the blue hour is suitable for concerts or at least as a program title. Like on thursday evening in the gymnasium of the meranian high school, while the sky was anything but blue.

But what brightened the spirits of the visitors from 7 p.M. Onwards was the concert by the MGL big band under the direction of iris arnal. In the end the big band should even become a very big band. The meranian high school not only has a great jazz band, but also a decent offspring of people interested in a style of music that emerged in the 1920s.

Blue program sheet

So for the last numbers after the break, even students from the lower school joined them on stage, until even a cast of 37 was reached. The blue program sheet for the blue hour, displayed near the gymnasium gym, featured lots of tunes rewritten for the big band style and written after the 1920s. Like "gonna fly now, bill conti’s world-famous hymn to the rocky movies. A great introduction, which gave a foretaste of the passion with which the at this point 23-headed big band would manage the evening.

At that moment it became clear that it was a pity that half of the seating remained empty. But those who had come, and who usually belonged to the ensemble members’ circle of relatives, were also able to enjoy an exceptionally well arranged version of the rhythm and blues classic "I heard it through the grapevine" look forward. But besides their musical skills, the big band proved something else: something like esprit de corps. At least there were young people playing who had already graduated from high school and who had been able to take a break from the school big band this summer. And yet someone like dennis streicher dutifully sits in the front row with his six-kilo baritone saxophone.

There was also a variety of styles to be heard, with an excursion into radio and thus into the demanding 16th-note range. Even a duet between bass guitar and trumpet should appear among the 16 numbers of the evening. From jazz to pop and between ambition and commitment, the one and a half hours passed, enriched also with infotainment by music teacher arnal. "Sing sing sing" was the first jazz piece to make it into carnegie hall. This is exactly what was heard with the clever drum prelude.

On the occasion of "world salzheimer day an information campaign was launched countywide by the caritasverband fur den landkreis bad kissingen e. V. Dementia often creeps into the lives of those affected and their caregivers. In everyday life, everything is increasingly "coming apart at the seams. All the more reason to lower inhibition thresholds through appropriate information or to address and reduce fears.

New view

For bystanders, who often cannot initially perceive certain behaviors as disease-related, it is important to develop a new "way of looking at things" on getting dementia. The disease is to be de-tabooed and "bridges" are to be built to help and relief offers as well as to counseling centers and self-help groups are to be built. Various information booths encouraged and informed victims and families, and raised public awareness. Good conversation and meetings enriched the event.

Offer little accepted

The caritas office for carers in bad kissingen, in cooperation with barmer GEK, offered a special course for carers of dementia patients. Due to a lack of registrations, the course "dementia" was cancelled of the caritas association but canceled. Red

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