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“I can say about Chancellor Rolandas Kvietkauskas that, if everything is in order, I should start working these days (…). The conversation about Daina Urbanavičienė is also correct, ”said the Minister.
According to him, the team is forming even more, people are completing the work currently available, waiting for the conclusions of the special services.
Urbanavičienė herself told BNS that she should be responsible for several areas, including professional art, and promises to prioritize improving support to the cultural sector affected by the COVID-19 situation, which, like the Culture Support Fund , is administered in his two terms. headed by the Council of Culture of Lithuania.
“Without a doubt, it will be necessary to improve the financing system of the cultural sector, because we have also seen from the pandemic situation that it will really be necessary to consider it, and everything possible will be done to help,” said D. Urbanačienė.
She promises to walk away from all ministry decisions when a conflict of interest issue may arise.
“Of course, I will walk away from what I did for eight years in the Council of Culture. No, there really shouldn’t be any problem,” said the future deputy minister.
D.Urbanavičienė graduated from UNESCO with a master’s degree in cultural management and cultural policy from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and since 2013 has been the director of the Lithuanian Council of Culture.
R. Kvietkauskas, who was educated in Lithuanian philology at the former Lithuanian Pedagogical University and appointed Rector of the Ministry of Culture, headed the Lithuanian Film Center for two terms until October 2012, where he was replaced by the former Chancellor of the Ministry of Culture. Laimonas Ubavičius culture. He already directed the Chancellery of the Ministry of Culture in 2002-2009 as then Secretary of the Ministry, who was later replaced by the Chancellor.
A decade ago, R. Kvietkauskas also worked as an advisor to the then Minister of Culture Arūnas Gelūnas, and a little earlier he headed the public institution Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009.
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