The Arts are suffering in Portugal!  It’s a difficult time to get funding.  Of course it’s not just the Arts it’s also cultural organisations, the glue of society, that are suffering.  In Tavira, in the Algarve, only 4 associations have received funding this year.  Some groups are still waiting for funding from last year.  A theatre building was given by the Council to AL- MaSRAHtheatre group, but they will not allow the group to use it as it is not fit for the public to enter. They are one of the groups who are still waiting for the funds from 2011.  Despite this, Tela Leao invited the theatre group and 4…