Theresa Bystedt, who works as operations manager at Pipeline in Sundsvall, is concerned about how the music club Pipeline will be affected by reduced grants, through their collaboration with the student association Sensus.
– Pipeline has no instruments and equipment of its own, we borrow from Sensus at our concerts. We have no grants from Sundsvall municipality to be able to buy such things, she says.
Democracy issue
Pipeline currently collaborates with Sensus through borrowed rehearsal spaces where about 10 bands rehearse. Mikael Andersson-Knut is a business developer at Sensus and also plays in The Confusions from Sundsvall, and he believes that reduced funding for student unions is a democratic issue.
– That we can be together and learn from each other is like the foundation of everything and quite unique for Sweden. If you start tolling it, you are on a dangerous road. It is a big democratic issue, says Mikael Andersson-Knut.
Hear Theresa Bystedt and Mikael Andersson-Knut in the clip.