1) When and how was AssoArtisti born?
The AssoArtisti union was first set up in 1994 on the initiative of the Confesercenti Emilia Romagna and thanks to pressure from a group of artists (theatre actors and musicians) to offer coordination to all entertainment operators. In February 1999, the National Confesercenti, after analysing the major transformations that characterised the labour market with the emergence of new professional and autonomous subjectivities, decided, within the broader organisational framework deployed in the services sector, to promote the development of the AssoArtisti union also at national level.
2) What is the main activity?
AssoArtisti offers specific trade union representation to all performing artists and operators in the music, dance, DJ, cinema and theatre sectors, as well as artists in the visual and figurative arts. It helps them untangle the bureaucracy with social security bodies, in particular Inps exEnpals, and with the tax authorities, regarding the various types of regularisations required in their respective activities, as well as promoting their members and entering into agreements.
3) What are your hopes and wishes for the future? What role can UNISCA play?
AssoArtisti has always been part of several regional and national technical tables on culture and entertainment. And so joining UNISCA was a further important step to make the institutions understand and enforce even more strongly the right to dignity and work of artists and companies in the performing arts. We are sure that just as “music can only be done together”, so too must battles, especially in this particular historical moment, only be done together.
