The Canarian Nationalist Parliamentary Group has achieved the support of the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the Non-Law Proposal for the creation of the 'Youth Bonus for Canarian Culture and Identity'.
The deputy of Coalición Canaria, Cristina Calero, has defended "the importance of this tool to boost the cultural sector and promote the participation of the population." In this sense, she pointed out the suitability of adapting it to the particularities of the Canary Islands, "with a focus on local productions, heritage (including aboriginal), relations with Latin America and the needs of the non-capital islands."
According to Calero, "it is a moral and political imperative, but above all it is a duty as Canarians to bring Canarian culture in all its formats to the entire population." In addition, she stressed that the first step towards identity and Canarianism is belonging, "because it is built from the individual to the collective, from the municipality to the island, from the island to the archipelago, from the archipelago to the nation, Canarian nation. And to belong, you have to know it through all the senses and all the arts," she added.
The parliamentary initiative is aimed at encouraging the consumption of cultural activities offered by entities and professionals with tax residence in the Islands. In addition, it would pay special attention to Canarian productions, heritage (especially aboriginal culture), cultural expressions with Latin American links and the intrinsic value and diversity of our crafts, performing arts, music, etc.
For this reason, the PNL urges the Government of the Canary Islands to "study the feasibility of a plan to implement the Cultural Bonus of the Canary Islands; promote Canarian cultural and identity values; promote culture made in the Canary Islands, bringing it closer through the economic advantage of a Canarian cultural bonus and that makes known the Canarian cultural panorama; that allows to buy books, approach the folklore and practice it, learn our trades, experiment through new innovative cultural formats, feel the Canarian art in its maximum expression; that helps us to know what we were, understand what we are and build what we will be".
"A culture that is not lived, that does not teach, is not spun or braided, that is not danced and lived or that is not learned, is a culture condemned to die," Calero sentenced.