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Respected Colleagues and dear Friends, Mala Scena theatre in Zagreb, Croatia is under the threat of shutdown, after 25 years of existence. Herby we appeal to the international theatre community and to theatre artists from all over the world, pleading for their support, hoping it will ensure survival of the theatre, enable continuity of our work as well as sheer existence of its founders and owners, Ivica Šimić, artistic director and Secretary General of ASSITEJ, and PhD. Vitomira Lončar, theatre manager, actress and producer. Mala Scena is the only independent and privately owned theatre in Croatia that used its founders' funds to build its own venue, as well the most successful one according to all standards of quality and quantity. Each year theatre produces at least three new shows for children of all ages, perform between 400 and 500 performances a year, and is the only Croatian theatre that has toured all continents and was invited to perform at the world's landmark venues including Sydney Opera House, Kennedy Center in Washington, USA, Barbican Center in London, UK or Koen-ji theatre in Tokyo, Japan. In addition to that, Mala Scena has been in charge of several multicultural and intercultural international projects and continues to actively participate in international exchange. Regardless of it all, The City of Zagreb, and the Mayor, through their Office for Culture, are doing all in their power to shutdown the theatre and stop the activities of its founders. Local politicians have been publishing falsified documents on Mala Scena’s ventures, threats have been made to both of its founders, and for over ten months the theatre has been scrutinized by different government inspections. It is beyond any doubt that all aforementioned is an orchestrated retaliation campaign posed as well to silence the constant calls to end the corruption within both local cultural and municipal structures. Vitomira Lončar an accomplished scholar is writing a weekly blog exposing malpractices and corruption in both local authorities and different cultural institutions. Blog called ‘Slamka spasa’ quickly gained extreme popularity, threatening to change the ‘golden standard’ of an established ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ policy that has been ruling the local community for years. In May 2012, Zagreb City Council’s president of the Culture Committee published a falsified report on the operations of Mala Scena in a local weekly and thus started an intimidation campaign. The city’s Office for Culture decided to revoke the consent to three year old Mala Scena’s annual reports; the theatre is being forced to produce additional proof of its day-to-day operations in the past three years, although City had no objection to any of the reports at the time of their original filing. Although Mala Scena complied, submitting absolutely all the available documentation, City claimed it can not audit the records and wanting to find Mala Scena in breach of its public funding contract which would inevitably force the theatre into bankruptcy and closing. On top of it all, theatre has been scrutinized by inspections of all kinds, from State Inspector's Office to police and revenue officers. All of them have been investigating the operations of Mala Scena for months but in the end could not find any anomaly at all. Regardless the fact that theatre Mala Scena accomplished all the tasks and fulfilled the program for which it was contracted in 2012, and regardless the fact that inspections of all kinds found no anomalies, Office for Culture refuses to pay its dues, one third of funding, from 2012 to the Theatre. Furthermore, Office for Culture imposed severe cuts to the public funding of Mala Scena in 2013 reducing it to a minimum insufficient for any let alone artistic work. The amount of public funds granted to Mala Scena in 2013 are well under the amount that theatre got in 1993, i.e. 20 years ago, regardless of the exceptional results achieved in the meantime. Needless to say, under these circumstances it is impossible for Mala Scena to continue its work, and is threatening the closing of the theater. With the campaign for the closure of the Theater, Vitomira Loncar PhD, assistant professor, who spent past eight years at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, is disabled to be employed at the Academy in an undemocratic manner that the lower competence candidate got the position. In this way, her academic career and professional development are stopped. Vitomira Loncar and Ivica Simic became persona non grata in the Croatian culture, Ivica Simic and his position of Secretary General of the World Center ASSITEJ is systematically suppresses and discredited, the public media spread misinformation and lies about the work and the work of the Theater in the manner of certain other long-past political time. Although we have sought the protection of the legal system, we have not got it. The last option for the small theater scene for us as artists and people is the voice of the public both domestic and international. Therefore, we kindly ask you to support Mala Scena theatre in it’s struggle for survival, support the right of the individual to publicly reveal all the pathology of actual cultural policy in Croatia, and with that enhance the democratization processes as well as strengthening Civil Society and supporting the freedom of speech in Croatia. We would highly appreciate your written support, and kindly ask you to send your electronic letters to we-support@mala-scena.hr and your letters will be sent to Mala Scena and to the office of the Major of the City of Zagreb. Thank you for your support Ivica Šimić Artistic director of theatre Mala Scena Secretary General of ASSITEJ
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Željeli bismo Vas obavijestiti da je kazalište Mala scena, nakon 25 godina postojanja, pod prijetnjom zatvaranja. Apeliramo s toga na zajednicu kazališta i kazališnih umjetnika iz cijelog svijeta, ali i na domaću javnost, da daju svoju podršku protiv ovog čina, u nadi da će glas javnosti pomoći osigurati opstanak kazališta te kontinuitet njegovog rada. Kazalište Mala scena najstarije je privatno kazalište za mladu publiku u Hrvatskoj i jedino s dvoranom opremljenom isključivo sredstvima osnivača. Mala scena vodeće je kazalište za djecu i mlade u Hrvatskoj prema svim kriterijima i standardima kvalitete i kvantitete. Svake godine kazalište stvara najmanje tri nove predstave za djecu svih uzrasta, ima između 400 i 500 izvedaba godišnje te je jedino hrvatsko kazalište koje je obišlo sve kontinente i bilo pozvano nastupiti na svjetskim scenama uključujući Sydney Opera House, Kennedy Center u Washingtonu, SAD, Barbican Center u Londonu, Velika Britanija ili Koen-ji kazalište u Tokiju. Osim toga, Mala scena je producirala i vodila nekoliko multikulturalnih i interkulturalnih međunarodnih projekata te i dalje aktivno sudjeluje u međunarodnoj razmjeni. Bez obzira na sve navedeno, Grad Zagreb i gradonačelnik, putem Ureda za kulturu, rade sve ne bi li obustavili rad kazališta i praktično ga zatvorili. Već više od godinu dana lokalni moćnici objavljuju krivotvorene dokumente o poslovanju Male scene, ne odgovaraju na dopise i zahtjeve koji su im upućeni, a na koje su prema pozitivnim zakonima RH dužni odgovarati, daju neistinite informacije o radu kazališta, te, premda je kazalište izvršilo sve svoje obveze prema Ugovorima koje je potpisalo za sredstva koja su dodijeljena na natječajima Javnih potreba u kulturi Grada Zagreba, ista ne isplaćuju. Izvan svake je sumnje da se u ovom slučaju radi o politički dirigiranoj odmazdi prema osnivačici kazališta Vitomiri Lončar koja u svojem blogu “Slamka spasa” već tri godine otvoreno piše o nepravlnostima i korupciji u kulturnim institucijama i u Uredu za kulturu Grada Zagreba. Blog je zbog svoje otvorenosti i iznošenju podataka o onome što “svi znaju, a nitko se ne usudi govoriti” stekao iznimnu popularnost. Vitomira Lončar time je ugrozila dugo godina stvarani koruptivni sustav moći i prekinula šutnju koja obilježava i opterećuje naše kulturno i kazališno okruženje već desetljećima. U svibnju 2012., predsjednik Odbora za kulturu Skupštine grada Zagreba, objavio je falsificirano izvješće o poslovanju Male scene u lokalnom tjedniku i tako pokrenuo kampanju zastrašivanja. Gradski je ured za kulturu odlučio opozvati suglasnost na izvješća o poslovanju Male scene u zadnjih tri godine i zatražio svu dokumentaciju od 2009. do 2011. Premda Grad nije imao primjedaba na bilo koje od izvješća u vrijeme njihovog podnošenja i premda je Mala Scena udovoljila svim zahtjevima i podnijela apsolutno svu raspoloživu dokumentaciju, Grad ju je odbio prihvatiti želeći pod svaku cijenu dokazati nepravilnosti u korištenju subvencija i oduzeti Maloj sceni sufinanciranje što bi neizbježno prisililo kazalište na zatvaranje. Uz to, u kazalište su poslane sve inspekcije, od Državnog inspektorata, Porezne i policijske inpekcije, inspekcije za poslovni prostor koje nakon, mjeseci istrage i ispitivanja, nisu naše niti jednu nepravilnost. Bez obzira na činjenicu da je kazalište Mala scena ostvarilo sve zadatke i ispunilo program ugovoren u 2012. bez ijedne promjene od ugovorenih stavki i bez obzira na činjenicu da inspekcije svih vrsta nisu pronašle nikakve anomalije, Ured za kulturu odbija isplatiti preostalu trećinu ugovorenih sredstava za 2012. Uz to, Ured za kulturu smanjio je kazalištu iznos financiranja za 2013. godinu na razinu koja Maloj sceni onemogućava daljnji rad i prijeti zatvaranjem kazališta. Nakon što nismo dobili zaštitu pravnog sustava (Pučkog pravobranitelja), nako što smo se u više navrata obratili Kontrolnom uredu i Gradonačelniku Milanu Bandiću, zadnju šansu za spas kazališta i potvrdu svih godina rada i kontinuiteta vidimo jedino u javnoj potpori Vas, kolega i prijatelja i publike koja prati naš rad u zadnjih 25 godina. Stoga vas molimo da, ako smatrate da je naš rad javna potreba u kulturi, podržite kazalište Mala scena u borbi za opstanak, podržite pravo pojedinca da otkriva patologiju kulturne politike u Hrvatskoj, da podržite proces demokratizacije, jačanje civilnog društva te slobodu govora u Hrvatskoj. Bili bismo vam izuzetno zahvalni ako biste nam svoju potporu u pisanom obliku poslali na adresu we-support@mala-scena.hr. Vaše će pismo biti proslijeđeno gradonačelniku grada Zagreba i na Ured za kulturu grada Zagreba, a bit će objavljeno i na internetskim stranicama Male scene Tiskovna konferencija na kojoj ćemo predočiti svu dokumentaciju održat će se u kazalištu Mala scena u ponedjeljak 13. svibnja u podne. Bilo bi nam drago da nas podržite i svojim dolaskom. S poštovanjem, Vitomira Lončar i Ivica Šimić, osnivači kazališta Mala scena