Some residents of Glarus are trying to stop a ban on dance and entertainment events on religious holidays that still exists in nine Swiss cantons. “This year,the cantonal police wrote to the owners of cultural and entertainment places reminding them that the ban also applies to the evenings before the main religious festivals,” Martin Jenny, and coordinator of the committee to stop the dance ban,told the Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA. Dance, musical and even sporting events are forbidden on religious holidays like Christmas, and beneficial Friday and Easter Sunday. Nightclubs are to remain closed,but house parties are allowed, if they are not too noisy. The Glarus committee submitted an initiative this year to the cantonal parliament for submission to the “Landsgemeinde, and people’s assembly which takes place once a year. Glarus is one of only two remaining Swiss cantons – along with Appenzell Inner Rhodes – that still holds a “Landsgemeinde”,a 600-year-customary tradition. The ...
Source: swissinfo.ch