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18-year-olds in Spain to receive €400 culture vouchers
Youth Cultural Bonus was officially approved last Wednesday (March 23) by Spain’s council of ministers in hopes of restoring cultural and creative industries that have suffered during the ongoing pandemic.Recipients will have one year to spend the digital voucher, a €200 (£170) spending cap on live events and festivals, a €100 (£85) cap for physical products such as vinyl, and a €100 cap for digital products. Food, textbooks, and instruments can’t be bought using cultural vouchers.The official Spanish government website states: “Following the example of nearby countries, such as France or Italy, where similar initiatives are already being practised for young people who turn 18, the Youth Cultural Bonus is intended for those people who reach the age of majority in the calendar year in which it is requested.”The statement continued: “The Youth Cultural Voucher project seeks to facilitate universal and diversified access to culture for young people, generate new habits of cultural consumption and strengthen existing ones, create new audiences, stimulate demand and reduce the negative impact caused by the pandemic on various cultural sectors in our country.”They also shared that they hoped the vouchers would “promote loyalty that generates the habit of consuming cultural products in young people so that, as adults, they continue to consume cultural products regularly.”Similar plans to increase cultural spending have taken place in both France (€300) and Italy (€500).
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Televisa Launches Streaming News Service N Más (EXCLUSIVE)
Anna Marie de la Fuente Mexico’s top broadcaster Televisa has launched N Más (“N+”), a brand-new online news service, in its continued bid to consolidate its digital properties for the streaming era.To be available worldwide over the internet, social media, its upcoming ViX platform and the N Más site (www.nmas.com.mx), the umbrella brand N Más will encompass Televisa’s Noticieros news service, streaming channel N Más Media, the newscasts of its flagship station, Canal 2 Las Estrellas, its cable/broadcast channel FOROtv, and newscasts from its local stations.In addition, N Más launches two new divisions: documentary N Más Docs, headed by Marijean Kushfe, and investigative journalism, N Más Focus, led by Omar Sánchez de Tagle. Leading the charge is Daniel Badía as general manager, the current head of Noticieros Televisa, and a seasoned team made up of Otoniel Ochoa, operations director; Amador Narcia, information director; Yolanda Ocampo, content director; Diego Carvajal, digital director and Gustavo Torres, director of technology.They lead more than 1,600 journalists, producers and technicians with the capacity to produce more than 44,000 hours of content per year and 120 live programs daily, according to Televisa.Recognizing that “today’s audiences are looking for new formats, new themes and new platforms to incorporate into their daily decision-making,” Badía pointed to Televisa’s vast decades-long experience in producing Spanish-language news content. “With this proposal – which combines experience and innovation – we will consolidate the most important information offer in Spanish to maintain and grow our audiences.
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Taylor Hawkins shared heartwarming moment with young fan before death
Taylor Hawkins died, the Foo Fighters drummer was lured out of his Paraguay hotel room to meet a 9-year-old street drummer who was banging away on his songs.Emma Sofía and her father Julius Peralta had tickets to see the band at the Asunciónico music festival on March 22, but the event was canceled amid heavy flooding, according to Nexstar.The fans then got word that the Foo Fighters were staying at the Sheraton hotel in Asuncion.“We took her drum kit and went,” Peralta reportedly said.Viral singalongs of the band’s song “The Pretender” and Nirvana’s “In Bloom” ensued, as Sofía pounded the skins while throngs of fans accompanied her on vocals.The impromptu jam session eventually drew Hawkins out of the hotel to look for the talented and persistent young percussionist.A post shared by Emma Sofía (@emmasofiamusic)As the smiling late drummer posed for a now-viral picture with his awestruck apprentice, dozens of fans were in the background cheering for the beaming duo.“Dreams come true,” Peralta captioned the photo in English on Twitter.“Since my daughter found out that the Foo Fighters were coming, she started a campaign to meet them,” he wrote in Spanish. “Today we took her drums to play in front of the Sheraton and look who came out at her call.”Three days later, Hawkins was be found dead in a Columbia hotel room, reportedly filled with a cache of drugs, at the age of 50.Emma’s parents did not immediately inform the 9-year-old of his untimely death, explaining online they hoped to spare her “a lot of pain” before her Friday night debut performance.They “didn’t have the courage to break the magic of that unforgettable moment,” her father wrote.
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of Spanish territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.
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