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Ministry of Culture activates the National Culture Council
Gabriela Canavilhas, Minister of Culture, began taking steps to constitute the National Culture Council, in order to achieve the widest possible representation of civil society in the various areas of culture, and in compliance with the Decree n. º 35/2007, March 29, which regulates this organ. The Conselho Nacional de Cultura (CNC), created by the organic Law of the Ministry of Culture, that was yet to be activated, is the consultative organ of the Ministry and its institutions and departments.
The CNC will include not only a wide range of figures of various associations and institutions, but also a group of 10 persons appointed by personal choice and nomination by the Minister. The essayist Eduardo Lourenço, the architect Siza Vieira, the musicologist Rui Vieira Nery, the programmer and former dancer Jorge Salavisa, the theatre director Ricardo Pais, the writer Inês Pedrosa, the journalist Paula Moura Pinheiro, the programmer and essayist António Pinto Ribeiro, the film critic João Lopes and the economist Augusto Mateus make up this group.
The CNC is a collective organ of a consultative nature that supports the Ministry of Culture and its ascribed institutions and departments, and will meet in plenary sessions and in specialized sessions. Its legal constitution allows for the creation of new specialized sections, prerogative after which will be created the arts section and the tauromachy section.
The CNC plenary is made up by government members responsible of culture, by the presidents of the specialized sections, and by one representative of the Centro Português de Fundações, the Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses, the Associação Nacional de Freguesias, the Conselho Nacional de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas, the Conselho Nacional de Consumo, the Conferência Episcopal Portuguesa and by the 10 outstanding personalities of the cultural milieu appointed by the Minister of Culture.
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