Africa-Press – Angola. A memorandum of understanding for the creation of a cultural agenda was signed this Wednesday in Luanda by the National Union of Artists and Composers (UNAC) and the Association of Hotels and Resorts of Angola (AHRA).
With a maximum value of 200,000 kwanzas per performance, the memorandum aims to establish the rules of cooperation between the two private law institutions, in the creation of conditions and development of cultural and recreational activities with a view to stimulating the expansion of domestic and international tourism, in Angola.
With a duration of two years, renewable, the caches must not have a minimum value of 50 thousand kwanzas, per performance, optionally, by agreement of the parties, higher values can be agreed.
The president of UNAC-SA, Zeca Moreno, who spoke after signing the memorandum of understanding, said that it allows the creation of new spaces for public exhibition of Angolan art, towards the creation of a national cultural agenda.
In his view, the increase in domestic and international tourism is also a set economic goal, having stressed that tourism, art and culture go hand in hand and are expressed in cuisine, music, dance, theatre, clothing, languages and in everything that characterizes Angolanness.
According to Zeca Moreno, the cultural area, if supported and encouraged, is a promising contributor to the General State Budget (OGE) and a means of generating employment and a tool to reduce marginality.
He also explained that the artists covered by the agreement must have a professional license and regularized quotas.
For the president of the AHRA Association, Ramiro Manuel Barreiro, the agreement will enhance the activity of the artists because from today onwards they will have a more ephemeral and effusive hiring. “It was sad to see hotels and resorts full, without the presence of artists, theater groups, folk music, given that in other countries artists are valued”, he said.
According to the president of the AHRA, it is necessary to transform the agreement into a real fact and not a dead letter, because the artists work in favor of the aggrandizement of culture and in the end they have no social reform, nor money to pay taxes.
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