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According to the Ministry, A. Vilčinskas has worked as an advisor in the cultural education policy group of the Ministry of Culture. Previously, he headed the Kaunas City Municipality’s Department of Culture for seven years, and also headed the Kaunas Cultural Center, worked at the Lithuanian Folk Museum.
The areas of activity of Deputy Minister A. Vilčinskas will be ethnic culture and intangible heritage, amateur artistic activities, national minorities, regional cultural policy, accessibility of culture in the diaspora and the updating and meaning of memory historical.
Vice Minister V. Gasparavičius is the organizer of international professional performing arts competitions, as well as the director of the Natų knygynas professional performing arts institution. It will be responsible for copyright, public information policy, cultural and creative industries, the non-governmental cultural sector and indirect state support for culture, as well as the EU structural aid and the public investment program.
D. Urbanavičienė has been President of the Lithuanian Council of Culture since 2013, is a professor and PhD student at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, since 2019, a member of the Board of the International Federation of Art Councils and Cultural Agencies, President of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. , Member of the Vilnius City Council.
The activities of Deputy Minister D. Urbanavičienė will be professional art, cultural education, e-culture, artist status, state language, dissemination of national culture abroad and international cooperation.
R. Mikaitis, former mayor and deputy mayor of Kaunas, who will assume the position of deputy minister at the beginning of January, will supervise the areas of protection and care of cultural heritage, memory institutions, cultural reserves and the Directorate of the National Historical Park and digitization of heritage cultural.
The Chancellor of the Ministry, Rolandas Kvietkauskas, also holds the position. Until October this year, he headed the Lithuanian Film Center for two terms, previously working as an advisor to the Minister of Culture Arūnas Gelūnas, as well as heading the Chancellery of the Ministry of Culture, later acting as Secretary of the Ministry.
Viktorija Vitkauskaitė, who has recently worked for IQ and IQ Life magazines, has become a spokesperson for Minister of Culture Simonas Kairis since Monday.
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