What is changing for American culture with Trump Kennedy Center?
In two decades, as a human rights activist, Haradr Haris says that he is worried about the fact that he witnesses us on the ground and worries that some Americans can pay great attention.
“I would say that this is a very dangerous moment,” Harris said at a desk of the small working office in the center of Washington, where he is a literary freedom and free expression.
In particular, his concern is focused on the major changes in the center of Trump's executive art under Trump.
The former US president, named after Kennedy, serves as a center of national art, which is planned to reflect the artery of the American culture. It is a place that hosts a wide range of artists, from famous performers to more independent productions. And while it may seem unusual to raise awareness, what some can see as only another concert hall, it fears that it is much more than the calendar of art events.
“You have a president who seeks to unite the government. He truly violates the basic principles of constitutional, including freedom of freedom of speech,” Harris explained.
“Thus, those of us who have seen this before …” Iran with a sculpture. “
US President Donald Trump has been responsible for the Kennedy Center of Washington, and to get rid of the performance of “waking” like Hamilton, Issa Rice and Louise to cancel the protests.
Trump's “Golden Age” in Art and Culture
After a long time after returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump has made significant changes in the center of Kennedy.
“I decided to immediately end the many individuals of the Board of Trustees, including the President, who do not share our vision for the golden age of art and culture” Said the social media platform of his truth in early February.
“In my direction we are going to make the Kennedy center in Washington, which is more wonderful again,” he wrote.
Although all this is within its power, Trump took the unusual step to install on his own. He also sank about some programming in the center of Kennedy, despite saying that he would never participate in the exhibition at that place.
“Kennedy's center wakes up,” Trump told reporters when Air Fries travels to the super headline in February.
“We don't need some shows that are a disgrace that they are even laid.”
Rick Grenel, who wins the temporary executive director of the Kennedy Center, has given a little light on what the stage wants to see.
He told the audience that “we want to make art again the art” at the Conservative Political Forum.
For the qualities of how to do it, Grennel has offered more religious programming and quoted the “Great Huge Celebration of Christ's Birth” programs.
The church protests
Although Trump's goal can be added to certain types of religious programming, at least one famous church protests.
“We do not support it, we do not believe that this is true,” said John Wesley, who is located on Alfred Street in Alexandria.
Over the past five years, members of his congregation have been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center. Their cultivated Christmas concert requires a nine months of preparation and the church costs about $ 250,000.
After the changes, the church leadership decided to cancel and make the show in their own way. Wesley says they are afraid that they will end in any case.
“For nothing more than we are other things, there was no church that was open, saying that we do not believe that this is the direction that God wants to take our nation.”
Trump has made it very clear that it does not support initiatives to promote its diversity, inclusion or justice, which is known as Dey. He has signed a number of executives, which are designed to root and roll over DEI initiatives within the framework of educational programs in the Federal Government, while pushing the private sector.
For Wesley, this is non-starter. Alfred Street Church sits on the land acquired 222 years ago, exempted and enslaved by African Americans. The meeting is now 12,000 members strong and growing.
“We would not be the Heritage and Civil Rights Movement of the Black Church and all the great men and women who were fighting for our civil rights, we just go with something, we are giving us huge,” he said.
Performer cancellations and protests
There is also the growing list of performers far from the Kennedy Center.
As a result of the changes, the award-winning TV manufacturer Shonda Rhimes resigned from the board. Television show stars UnsafeThe appearance canceled, and the musician Ben's flash offered as a feature of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), which performs at the center.
BLOCKBUSTER Musical organizers earlier this week Hamilton He stated that he could not take place next year's shows.
The Star of the Show եւ Co-author Lin Manuel Miranda said that the Kennedy Center was not created in this soul, and we are not going to be a part of it, while it's Trump Kennedy Center. ”
In response to Hamilton Announcement: Write posted In social media Wednesday, that step is “publicity that can fire.”
“Art is for everyone, not only for people who love and agree,” he wrote. “The United States should know that Lee Manuel is intolerant of those who do not agree with him politically.”
“One of the moments
The best possible Canadian author Luizen Penni has been set to run his new book, Black wolfIn the center of Kennedy, on stage, but he canceled these plans in mid-February.
A Facebook's last positionHe stated that he would not walk in the United States and instead he would hold the book launch in Ottawa, instead of the National Center for National Arts.
“I can hardly believe that this is what I am saying, but given the US President's continued threat of trade war against Canada, I cannot enter US fans.
He said that the cancellation of the Kennedy Center was an easy decision for him.
“I think it's moments for us as individuals,” he said to the Central Bank during an interview with his home.
Penny is watching the Kennedy Center, which changes the Trump's Administration's attempt to distort artists and intellectuals who can disagree with the president.
“What is the first to do the tyrants when they take?” People asked. “They closed dissent.”
