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Culture’s Budget will increase in 2009
Chile’s Arts and Culture Council budget will rise to Chilean pesos (CLP) $62.555 million. Funds for public application will rise by 20% and budget for infrastructure by 128%. CNTV (National Television Council) will receive more than CLP $4.000 million.
The Council will increase its budget by 38.6% in 2009, according to the proposal recently approved and published by the Budget Office of the Treasury Department. This is the second largest ever increase in the share allocated to the Ministry of Education - the richest department with a budget for 2009 of just over 4 billion CLP, resulting from an increase of only 5,7%.
The share that is managed by Minister Paulina Urrutia will administer a total of CLP $62.555 million for the year 2009 - a growth of CLP $17.419 million compared to 2008.
The resources will be spent mainly in these areas: cultural infrastructure, participation and access programs, decentralization initiatives, and the Bicentenary projects.
In practice, these guidelines mean that the funds for public application will increase 20% for a total of CLP $17.910 million (for the year 2008 the total was CLP $14.916 million).
One of the programs that will have a greater increase is Cultural Infrastructure. It will rise by 128% (CLP 10.089 millions) for the year 2009.
These funds will be used for fitting out Cultural Centres in municipalities with more than 50 thousand inhabitants, restructuring old edifications and building new spaces. This program will be implemented in 40 cities.
The area dedicated to guaranteeing the participation and access to arts and culture of the population with fewer resources will increase its budget 43%. It will have CLP $7.660 million that will be used for promoting all disciplines, including the program Creating Chile in my Neighbourhood (Creando Chile en mi barrio), to which CLP $3.386 million will be allocated, which aims to benefit 200 marginalized or lower-resourced neighbourhoods throughout the country.
Bicentenary Investments
Four projects that go from events to infrastructure will be developed.
The International Congress of the Spanish Language will receive CLP $865.530.000 for its production. It will take place in Valparaiso starting March 10, 2010 with the participation of 250 delegates from Spanish America and will be inaugurated the Juan Carlos King of Spain.
The I Visual Arts Triennial will have at its disposal CLP $371,700,000 for its production, which corresponds to a part of the total cost of this event which will take place in October and that will count with big exhibitions in Santiago and other regions.
The Cultural Centre Gabriela Mistral, which will operate in the restructured building Diego Portales, will receive CLP $531,000,000 for beginning its activities, while its delayed construction works are being carried out.
The so-called Bicentenary parties, a program of 23 artistic events free of charge directed to 250 thousand inhabitants, will receive CLP $355,770,000.
From the Municipal Theatre to Santiago at a Thousand (Santiago a mil)
The Budget Office, dependent from the Treasury Department, has detailed the normal allocations and transferences that the State does through the National Arts and Culture Council and that benefit annually institutions of different sorts.
These amounts are fixed and in some cases increase annually.
For 2009 they will be:
CNTV: CLP $4.359.694.000
Municipal Theatre: CLP $ 1.959.457.000
Youth and Children’s Orchestras Foundation: CLP $1.665.590.000
Palacio de la Moneda Cultural Centre: CLP $1.376.724.000
Chile’s Camera Orchestra and National Folkloric Ballet: CLP $1.264.935.000
Foreign Relations Ministry (Dirac): $807.000.000
Chilean Arts and Crafts Foundation: $459.612.000
Matucana 100 Cultural Corporation: CLP $381.496.000
Balmaceda Centre 1215 Corporation: CLP $378.075.000
International Festival Santiago at a Thousand (Santiago a Mil) Foundation: CLP $250.000.000
Chilean Writers Association (SECH): CLP $11.682.000
Chilean Painters and Sculptors Association: CLP $10.078.000
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