2023-07-10 03:05:00
The provincial government triangulated some 24 million pesos through a foundation, linked to the Río Negro Philharmonic Orchestra, for expenses for the organization of the Bariloche International Music Festival that took place at the end of May.
The funds were issued to the technes foundation in advance of the event, with at least four authorizations of “non-refundable contributions” for 6 million pesos each payment orderaccording to the synthesized decrees published in different official bulletins of Río Negro, dated between May 11 and 24.
The Technes Foundation, which has provincial legal status and was created in 2015, is made up of artists from the Río Negro Philharmonic. In his presentation, he indicates that his objective is “to manage access by the community in general to cultural goods and services” and his task is strictly linked to the Government, since he received instruments from the State, participated in a wind event and now disembarked as “organizer” of Fimba.
The Fimba had more than 30 concerts in five venues in Bariloche. Archive
In practice, the foundation office of intermediate organization to triangulate the funds to pay the “cache” of international artists from Fimba, among them the Brazilian Paulinho Moska, the Chilean Nano Stern, and the Uruguayan Fernando Cabrera.
The artistic director of the Philharmonic and Fimba, Martín Freile, admitted daily BLACK RIVER que for the first time this operation was carried out and justified it. “This year, unlike the previous ones, due to the issue of inflation it was difficult to follow the administrative mechanism of the province” he said, alluding to the deadlines and delays that the State has to issue payments.
Freile insisted that the resources were needed in advance, especially for the contracts of foreign artists, whose valuation is in dollars, although the informal exchange is paid in pesos. In addition, with the contributions destined to the foundation, they paid airfares for the artists.
“Before, the cache of the artists following the event was paid, but with the issue of the dollar there was a need to pay in advance to fix the value”, explained the artistic director, who remarked that the contracts were made through representatives in Argentina of the musicians.
In addition to internationally renowned artists, they came to Bariloche two musical ensembles from the United Statesto whom no cache was paid although the travel and lodging expenses were paid.
According to Freile, they were some 30 million pesos allocated through the Technes Foundation, although the decrees that this newspaper has accessed so far add up to 24 million. In addition, other budgets were 10 million pesos through the Ministry of Culture for rentals of the Teatro La Baita and Estación Araucanía, among other logistical expenses, including the hiring of a local production company that was in charge of laying out the grid, organizing the delivery of tickets and press efforts.
The 40 million pesos allocated to Fimba double last year’s expenses, an increase in line with inflation. Freile indicated that Governor Arabela Carreras promptly asked to hold an outstanding edition, due to its importance for Bariloche in the cultural agenda, but austere. In total there were more than 30 free concerts to the public, made up mainly of residents.
The Technes Foundation is headquartered in Viedma, at a private address, according to the official address on its website. Photo: Marcelo Ochoa
in one of the decrees, No. 597which allocated 6 million pesos of non-refundable contributions to the Technes Foundation, described the destination of the money to “solve the expenses of accommodation, air and land passenger transport, taxis, remises, car rental, freight, printing, guidelines , rental of rehearsal rooms and venues, rental of lights and sound, paints, wood, aluminum profiles, fittings, wheels, screws, rental of equipment for backline audiovisual production, among others.
However, Freile indicated that the The destination of the resources was exclusively for air tickets and hiring artistsand stated that a rendering of each payment to Technes was made.
Fimba, a proposal that was born in 2019
The Fimba is arose in 2019 at the idea of the then Minister of Tourism, Sports and Culture, Arabela Carreras. Although it was conceived as a project to generate a tourist-cultural attraction to the city, the largest public is local.
This year a new edition was made with all the potential of its origins, following the restrictions of the pandemic, and it returned to its original date in May. 30 artists passed in five venues.
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