Ryan's District Boards

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/artists-swarm-madrid-streets-protest-cuts-174729363.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/O8WlNlUefrcEe64UDqDDIA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dd4d8e4c484653352c425e8d88a76ce068c6b20c.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="An actress performs at La Latina theater in Madrid on October 24, 2013" align="left" title="An actress performs at La Latina theater in Madrid on October 24, 2013" border="0" /></a>Drummers, singers, dancers, actors and other artists will swarm the streets of Madrid on Sunday to stage outdoor performances to protest against declining state support in Spain for the arts. &quot;We wanted to show that the world of culture has much more to offer than a simple march through the streets,&quot; Fernando Martin, the spokesman for the Collective for the Defence of Culture, told AFP. This will be the first event staged by the group, which represents over 100 cultural associations and was set up in October 2013 to &quot;face up to the unsustainable situation&quot; of Spain's cultural sector, which has suffered &quot;spending cuts without pity,&quot; he added. Spain's cultural institutions have been hit hard by the deep spending cuts imposed by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government to rein in the public deficit.</p><br clear="all"/>