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May-September 2020 The local cultural sector undertook several steps to adapt to the COVID-19 restrictions that were in force over the past year. Many of the annual festivals or activities, such as the Malta International Arts Festival, Għanafest and Carnival festivities took place in a revised format, focusing either on online content or small-scale mobile performances or exhibits across several public...
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February 17th 2021 On the 17th November 2020 the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce published the “Life Worth Living” report prepared for the Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media with recommendations on how the arts and culture sector can adapt and recover from the unprecedented damage arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. The report is important in its wider cross-sectoral consideration...
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General developments In the beginning of May, the Finnish Government decided on a hybrid strategy to manage the coronavirus crisis and to gradually lift the restrictions put in place in March after the virus outbreak. The hybrid strategy will involve a controlled shift from large-scale restrictive measures to more targeted ones, and a “test, trace, isolate and treat” approach. Some of the restrictions from...
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February 22nd 2021 Mapping the Impact of Covid-19 on the Cultural Sector The mapping of Covid-19 was carried out by two academia departments (Department of Arts Management at DAMU and Department of Arts Management at the University of Economics and Business) and the ATI. The survey was prepared and commented on by all relevant professional institutions, professional associations, Ministry of Culture, and academia...
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GOVERNMENT MEASURES – COVID-19 During 2020 and 2021, the measures by the Government of the Republic of Croatia to assist the cultural sector in order to minimize the adverse effects of the COVID-19 virus pandemic have been continuously created, changed and implemented. The Ministry of Culture and Media has also continuously worked in coordination with the Civil Protection Headquarters and the Public...
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced cultural institutions and venues around the world to close their doors, leaving hundreds and thousands of cultural events cancelled and even more people without work and income. Although the total effect on the cultural sector remains unclear, the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends monitors current developments regarding COVID-19 and the cultural field. We mobilised our expert authors to gather country specific information on the implications for the sector and the current measures being taken. The responses received...
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Based on the information provided by its members, Pearle* (Performing Arts Employers Association League Europe) launched a map to visualize the re-opening of Live Performance...
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The Austrian arts promotion system includes various measures of direct support for creativity. The main measures are awards, prizes, scholarships, purchase of art works, grants such as contributions to printing costs of catalogues, running studios (federal studio house in Vienna and various studios abroad), productions, travelling expenses; and commissioning art works. Various artist-in-residence programmes have been established by the government, the provinces, the municipalities and various institutions in recent years for Austrian and international artists at home and abroad. Every year, 95 interdisciplinary scholarships for young artists are awarded by the Arts and Culture Division of the BMKOES, 35 for...
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There are three tax rates under the Austrian VAT Law (1994): the regular rate of 20%, a reduced rate of 10% (books, press) and a third rate of 13% which has been established in the course of a tax reform in 2015. The latter specifically applies to cultural institutions, cinemas, theatres and concert tickets, but not to charitable public institutions, such as the national theatres and the Salzburg Festival. These institutions are subject to the reduced tax rate, as well as turnover related to artistic activities, museums, botanical gardens or nature parks, as well as services by the Austrian Broadcasting...
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The Law on Social Security for Artists (Künstler-Sozialversicherungsfondsgesetz 2001, renamed as Artist's Social-Security Insurance Structure Act 2011) covers social security issues for artists. Since its implementation, freelance artists have been treated the same as other self-employed professionals, which means they must pay their statutory social security insurance if they earn more than 5 527,92 EUR per year (2020; this amount is adopted annually). In many cases, the law created a situation whereby artists end up making two different types of social insurance payments: statutory insurance for freelance work and any other social security insurance payments which result from other part-time employment...
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