Cuts to community centres’ budgets

In February, Auroville’s Centre for Research in Performing Arts (CRIPA) – a constantly-in-use and free-to-use performance and rehearsal venue – and the Pitanga Cultural Centre, were informed by the GB-FAMC that their funding would be reduced to partial or zero support from April 1st, 2024. The directive gave them less than two months to become self-sufficient – that is, to raise their own funds or start charging for access, instead of providing an open community space for the arts.