From Friday May 21, all people aged 18 will be able to activate their Culture Pass. Emmanuel Macron has chosen the reopening of cultural places to announce the generalization of his presidential promise. “By installing this geolocated application on their smartphone, young people will have 300 euros to access cultural offers of their choice”, announced Thursday, May 20, the entourage of the President of the Republic on the eve of his trip to Nevers (Nièvre). It is on these Mitterrandian lands and in the birthplace of Roselyne Bachelot that Emmanuel Macron will detail the operation of this new tool. “Emancipation” considered as “The priority cultural project of the five-year period”.
Nièvre is one of the fourteen departments where this new Culture Pass has been tested for two years.
Nièvre is one of the fourteen departments where this new Culture Pass has been tested for two years. The Covid-19 pandemic, but also the need to readjust the objectives of this “Sesame towards a field of cultural possibilities” – in the words used by the Elysee – delayed its launch. Now this “GPS of culture” will be deployed throughout the country and overseas. It will allow some 800,000 18-year-olds to reserve tickets for shows or movies, buy books, drawing material or a musical instrument, subscribe to a music or video platform. online, visit museums, take dance, singing or theater lessons, etc. “For platforms, we highlight our French industries, underlines an Elyos advisor. Deezer and not Spotify for music, Canal + or OCS and not Netflix for audiovisual. ”
By focusing on demand, this Pass project has often been associated with a consumerist vision of culture. In an attempt to respond to criticism, the envelope of 500 euros originally planned will ultimately be divided into two parts. From the class of 4e at the final year, middle and high school students will benefit from 200 euros, which they will be able to use within the framework of artistic and cultural education, then, at 18, an envelope of 300 euros to use according to their tastes. “It’s a bit like accompanied driving before taking the license. We are not giving up the sum of 500 euros but we are stretching it over time to build a continuum, a cultural journey, first of all collective, guided by the teachers, before being individual ”, explains a relative of the president.
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