Gula Villan alerted about the closure – got a thousand members

Last week asked the Living Zone, which operates Gula Villan in Haninge cultural park, for help in social media. In order to survive need the cultural association new members, as the municipality otherwise, the lower the contributions. Living Zone chairman Sanna Lindström says to DN that the response has been huge – from eleven members at Sunday's meeting of the board to close to a thousand members on Wednesday.

– It will take the rest of my parental leave to administer, says Sanna Lindström and continues:

– We are only a few pieces that run this on a non-profit basis. We are working on it after work. Now we hope that more will be involved.

since 1990 as an important venue for alternative music and oetablerade band. Among the performers who stood on stage can be found Lilla Lovis, The Hives, Entombed, Slagsmålsklubben and Coca Carola. Sanna Lindström became president in 2016, and succeeded when Tommy ”Tompa Eken” Ekengren, which has long been a front man in Stockholm punkscen, including through the Kafé 44 in stockholm on Södermalm.

" It went bad with medlemsvärvningen in the year, because we always have a fuss with the municipality. We rent the house by the municipality of Haninge, but kulturbidraget will not be in the vicinity of our operating costs. It will be hard to get it together financially because we may not engage in commercial activities in the house, says Sanna Lindström.

the Last time the Yellow Villa reached a critical stage was when the municipal real estate company wanted to chockhöja the rent by over 300 per cent. The rent tribunal gave the cultural association the right in the dispute, 2016.

" It was a jätteseger that we fought for in several years. When we won, got the real estate company of the agreement and handed over it to the municipality. The house is still rundown, the drain has not worked in how many years time. But the municipality does not want to do something about it, " says Sanna Lindström.

the remains of the Hand of the old park. In the municipal stadsutvecklingsplan from 2017, lifted the area up as an asset for the city and is described as a ”kulturkluster that strongly contributes to Haninges identity, not least from the houses – and have done for several decades the – scenes for music and theatre which attracted a visit from the entire Stockholm region”.

at the same time experiencing kulturföreningens the board of directors of the thwarted by the municipality. Much of the moral power that could be added on to develop the business, goes to another, says Sanna Lindström.

" Punk is a fulkultur that apparently don't deserve as much encouragement, but we fix and sharpen themselves in the villa. We are doing a work which the landlord ignore, says Sanna Lindström and continues:

" We're doing this petition to show that the Yellow Villa needed. There are a lot of bands that have heard of and want to play. It is available reptider also. If not, we would run the Yellow Villa, it would just be a ruffigt and abandoned house. There is not even a window.

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