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“We have always emphasized the importance of culture. Despite the fact that the Ministry of Finance has been talking from the start about developing horizontal instruments for all sectors, culture has been singled out and separate instruments have been developed for it € 25 million was allocated specifically just for so-called soft measures, ”wrote S. Skvernelis on Facebook.
The Prime Minister listed theirs:
2 million artists with artist status who get 607 euros of downtime for 3 months
– 2.7 million for individual developer grants to receive € 600 over 3 months
– 0.75 million lump sums for independent developers ranging from € 600 to € 1800
– 3.4 million for the film industry
– 1.7 million for the library collection collection. I would like to emphasize here that, in total, more than € 4 million is being spent on books and prints this year, which is above the EU average per capita. Meanwhile, in 2010, funding for this area fell nearly 4 times, to 649,000. euros
– 14.5 million additional programs to digitize cultural products, adapt them to new spaces and other initiatives to help create new living conditions.
“In addition to all these funds, which are specifically allocated only to the cultural sector, they could and could also use horizontal measures: benefits for own-account workers, downtime, micro-enterprise subsidies, partial-income compensation measures. adopted an amendment to the law on ticket compensation for lost events, ”said S. Skvernelis.
The Prime Minister agreed that an additional $ 43 million was allocated to infrastructure to shoot two rabbits at once, both to support the construction sector and to help a culture whose buildings have been underfunded for many years and much of which belong to the cultural heritage.
“I will give some examples of this amount:
10.8 million was allocated to the Lithuanian National Drama Theater. The ongoing reconstruction of the theater has already begun and does not allow actors, directors to make presentations and invite viewers to presentations in ordinary spaces. These funds will allow the job to be completed more quickly, hopefully even this year, and to open the door successfully. Are these funds really not good for culture?
830 thousand – purchase of musical instruments for institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Culture. This is a direct help for developers, and is not a border.
437 thousand for the renovation of the Great Stage of the Kaunas National Drama Theater. 460 thousand – to the Šiauliai State Drama Theater. Won’t it help the theater to attract more spectators?
61 thousand for the liquidation of the state of emergency in the Contemporary Art Center.
There are infinite examples of this. These funds will be allocated to some 80 cultural institutions, through 12 cultural centers where cultural activities are carried out in the regions, 14 libraries that must be attractive to attract readers, provide space for work, 15 museums, 12 theaters, etc. “wrote S. Skvernelis.
The Prime Minister did not agree that these funds are not good for culture.
“When we go to cultural events, we want to reach a cultural space. Furthermore, most of us have no idea under what conditions people in the cultural sector work.
It is not normal for national agencies to live even without fire systems when a disaster could strike any day. Or half a day heats one side of the building and the other half of the day the other, because the systems do not allow the entire building to heat at the same time.
Therefore, it is not an investment in bricks or sarcophagi, but the opportunity not to freeze in winter, to work in normal conditions and also to provide higher quality art for culture lovers, ”said S. Skvernelis.
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