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This is indicated in the Government’s budget bill for next year. The government has previously announced that it will allocate additional crisis support of SEK 1.5 billion to the cultural sector this fall due to the corona pandemic. Together with 500 million this spring, this means a crisis support for the cultural sector of 2 billion SEK in 2020. Exactly what conditions will apply to the distribution of autumn crisis support is being investigated.
The support investment will continue in 2021, but then in the form of the so-called SEK 1 billion stimulus support, which instead of pure crisis money will go towards restructuring and restarting cultural activities across the country. However, it is not clear how or who will distribute this stimulus money.
“It’s incomprehensible”
The Swedish Film Institute, SFI, has high hopes that the film will be given priority:
– Naturally, we hope there is a sign that the area of the film is important, but we do not know yet, says Mia Enayatollah, communications manager of SFI.
However, the production discounts long demanded by the film industry to keep recordings in the country are not included in next year’s budget. Eva Hamilton, president of Film and Television Producers, is disappointed:
“It is incomprehensible. In addition to the loss of jobs, our entire film industry and our film knowledge are disappearing abroad. Sweden is abandoning the path,” he says in a press release.
New reading tips
At the same time, the government proposes several initiatives to improve the reading of children and young people. Among other things, they want to create a reading council, to which they will allocate SEK 10 million per year from 2021. The reading council will coordinate initiatives, among other things, in schools, authorities, public education, bookstores and publishers.
In addition, they want to expand the so-called Book Start, a national investment in the development of language and reading of young children managed by the Swedish National Council of Culture since 2015.The government allocates 15 million SEK for expansion in 2021 and then 20 million SEK annually starting in 2022.
Affected “strongly negative”
Free cultural creators are covered by various investments totaling SEK 80 million. Of these, 43 million go to higher grants and remuneration for artists and authors in all forms of art. Regarding the performing arts, the government claims that the corona virus will likely continue to affect business “strongly negatively” for a longer period of time and will increase support for independent actors in theater, dance and music by SEK 16 million. Performing constellations receive SEK 10 million to increase the safety of independent performing artists.
Investments also include SEK 7 million for the Riksteatern to develop stages of organization and production within the contemporary circus.
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Regional culture will receive SEK 300 million in 2021. The following year, the contribution will be halved to SEK 150 million annually.
The state subsidy to municipalities with cultural schools will be increased by SEK 100 million in 2021–2023. The Creative School will also receive SEK 25 million a year from 2021 to 2023.
The previous initiative, Strengthened Libraries, will receive SEK 150 million for 2021 and SEK 75 million for 2022 and 2023.
Forum for Living History receives 10 million SEK for work on a new museum on the Holocaust.
The Swedish Council of the Arts and the Moderna Museet will each receive SEK 25 million to increase the acquisition of art by the state in 2021. The idea is to provide the public with a greater variety of art and to strengthen the art infrastructure so that more artists are paid for their activities.
The Institute for Popular Languages and Memories for increased funding by 1 million SEK.
The Swedish Museum of Natural History receives SEK 3 million for the renovation of the Botanhuset.
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