cultural policy development plan and performing arts strategy for the period up to 2012
TRANSCRIPT
Cultural Policy Development Plan
and
Performing Arts Strategy
for the period up to 2012
Cultural Policy Development Plan
It will be introduced to the Parliament in January 2013.
Structure:
a) general objectives and principles of cultural policy;
b) ties between cultural policy and other relevant policies;
c) the main principles and goals of each respective field of culture;
d) attachments.
Cultural Policy Development Plan
The fields of interest - film, music, performing arts, literature and publishing, visual arts and design, architecture and public space design, museums and archives, cultural heritage, libraries, folk culture, cultural diversity, and cultural media.
Cultural Policy Development Plan
The attachments include:
a) the analysis of the ground principles of cultural policy passed in 1998;
b) cultural policy research results;
c) detailed accounts provided by expert groups in respective fields including proposals and evaluations.
Performing arts strategy
It is supervised by EETEAL, Estonian Theatre Agency and Estonian Theatre Union.
Performing arts strategyMain issues and solutions: to achieve more balanced system of project- and
repertoire theatres; to produce and distribute theatre productions in rural
areas; to guarantee stable financing of performing art
institutions; to elaborate a long-term state strategy for culture export; to encourage cooperation between different higher
educational institutions and performing arts institutions; to provide social guarantees for freelancers.
Performing arts strategy
Problems and criticism: the initiative of the Ministry of Culture to reform the
funding of theatres; the Ministry of Culture has not agreed to confirm the
development plan as an official agreement.
How to pressurize decision makers to implement the plans as soon as possible and to the greatest benefit
to everybody?
