About 60 candidates challenged the provisional results in four of the six support contests support for the arts 2023/2026, during the hearing period for interested parties, a source from the General Directorate for the Arts (DGArtes) told Lusa on Wednesday.
In response to the questions sent by Lusa, the DGArtes said it had received, during the hearing period for interested parties, “10 statements in the Sustained Support – Music and Opera – Creation contest; seven pronouncements in the Sustained Support – Dance – Creation contest; 31 pronouncements in the Sustained Support – Programming contest; nine pronunciations in the Sustained Support – Visual Arts – Creation and Programming contest”.
“In relation to the Sustained Support contest – Theater -Creation and the Sustained Support contest – Disciplinary Journey, Circus and Street Arts – Creation, the stakeholder hearing is ongoing“He recalled, and there are still no definitive numbers regarding the challenges.
The DGArtes announced this month the provisional results of the six contests for sustained support for the arts, in the biennial (2023-2024) and quadrennial (2023-2026) modalities.
The results in the Theater – Creation area were the last to be known, on Monday night.
In the areas of Music and Opera, which appears for the first time as an autonomous area, 30 entities were proposed for support, among the 46 considered eligible.
In the area of Dance there were proposals for support 19 entitiesout of 33 eligible candidates.
In the Programming area (for Performing Arts, Disciplinary Crossing and Street Arts), 43 entities proposed support, among the 90 accepted applications.
Finally, in the Visual Arts program, 21 requests for support were proposed, among the 45 considered eligible.
When the call was opened in May, the six Sustained Support Program Calls had allocated a global amount of 81.3 million euros. In September, the Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva, announced that this value would increase to 148 million euros???????? Thus, he highlighted at the time, the supported entities will now receive the requested amount and not just a percentage.
However, this reinforcement only covered the modality of quadrennial contests, since, according to the minister, there was “a great movement of candidacies from biennial to quadrennial.”
Representative structures of the sector, in a statement sent last week to the Minister of Culture and parliamentary groups and disseminated to the media, point out that, “with the publication of the interim resultsIt turned out that such a migration of candidacies did not occur to such an extent and that the Government’s option came, after all, to create an unjustified asymmetry between the two modalities that is detrimental to some candidacies”.
The structures require anew reinforcement of sustained support funds“, pointing to the “equity” in the reinforcement between the competitions of four and two years.
The statement is signed by Plateia, REDE – Association of Structures for Contemporary Dance, rizoma – Intervention and Research Platform for Musical Creation, AAVP – Association of Visual Artists of Portugal, Cena-STE and Acción Cooperativista – Informal support group for the Professionals of Culture and the Arts.
Meanwhile, almost 800 structures and professionals from the Culture sector signed a petition asking for the reinforcement of funds for contests to support the arts, launched this Tuesday by Plateia.
According to Plateia, in a statement, the resource, put up for open subscription on Tuesday, met, in about 24 hours, until the beginning of the afternoon of this day, “786 subscriptions, between structures and professionals in the sector“, having already been sent to the Minister of Culture, Pedro Adão e Silva.
The subscribers who subscribe also call on the Minister of Culture to “increase the funds allocated to these contests”, stressing that it is a measure “urgent, fair and feasiblenot only because there are many biennial projects from all artistic disciplines with excellent scores that would not otherwise be funded, but also to ensure fairness and fairness in this competition.”
Among the subscribers there are projects and structures such as Sporting Portuguese Music, Appleton – Associação Cultural, Casa da Esquina, cem – centro em Movimento, Cão Solteiro, Nuvem Voadora, Conservatório de Música de Felgueiras, Escola de Mulheres – Office of Theater, Filandorra – Teatro do Nordeste, Formiga Atomica, Jangada, Karnart, Platform 285, Teatro dos Aloés, Teatro Experimental do Porto, Teatro Griot and Teatro Meridional. Some of these have had nominations proposed for support, others have not.
Among the artists, from various areas, who signed the petition are Albano Jerónimo, Ana Brandão, Ana Nave, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Beatriz Batarda, Benedita Pereira, Clara Andermatt, Conan Osiris, Filipa Areosa, Filipe Sambado, Isabel Abreu, Mariana Tengner Barros, Nuno Lopes, Rita Baptista, and Sara Ross.
The Minister of Culture, Plateia and Cena-STE will be heard in Parliament on the 2023/2026 contests for sustained support for the arts, on a date to be defined, after the approval, on Tuesday, of PSD, PCP and BE.
Source: Observadora
