Despite the budgetary tensions which are weakening the cultural world, the public and private partners of the Scène nationale du Parvis Tarbes-Pyrénées renewed their commitment on Thursday until 2028. A strategic agreement which guarantees the continuation of the artistic project of the Scène nationale and affirms its central role in access to culture throughout the territory.
“Let’s stick together to preserve this jewel that is the national scene of the Parvis”: president of the board of directors of the Parvis, Marc Bélit summed up in one sentence the issue around the multi-year agreement of 2025-2028 objectives signed Thursday evening at Le Méridien, in Ibos.
“A road map for four years” which “links the State, communities, private patrons, the Parvis association, its director Frédéric Esquerré and even the inhabitants of the territory” in the service of artistic dissemination in all its forms.
Evoking a more golden past for culture, Marc Bélit would have liked to see “means” added to “objectives” because “budgetary restrictions expose us to a certain prospective fragility”. But the “moral pact” signed commits the partners who, for the most part, have decided to maintain their funding for the national scene of Tarbes-Pyrénées.
This document “reflects the need to promote culture in the territory, as close as possible to the inhabitants”, in a rural department far from large metropolises, rejoiced Émilie Favaro, mayor of Ossun and delegate of the CATLP (community Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées agglomeration).
“Much more than an administrative act, this agreement is an act of trust”, declared Pascale Péraldi, elected representative of the Region, who renews her support, as does the CATLP, the Department and the economic interest group (EIG) of the Méridien d’Ibos, represented by its CEO, Davy Saint-Laurent.
“In the French cultural exception, the Parvis (which is one of the seventy-seven national stages in our country) is an exception in its construction of partnership between the public and private forces”, underlined Davy Saint-Laurent.
