Deputy Minister of Culture Mr. Yannis Toumazis presented today the new, specialised sponsorship programme of the Deputy Ministry for the support of the institution of single and multi-theme arts festivals in Cyprus. This is the "CYPRUS - Arts Festival Sponsorship Programme", the implementation of which will start on a pilot basis from 2023.
Responding to the need to renew and modernize the festival scene in Cyprus, the Ministry of Culture seeks, through the design and implementation of this Programme, to revise the previous policy in relation to the organization and support of arts festivals. The Programme itself is the institutional evolution of the Cyprus International Festival, which operated for 30 years with great success. The Programme is addressed to non-profit organisations that organise arts festivals.
The specific objectives of the Programme include, among others, the strengthening and support of the organisational infrastructure of organisations that organise arts festivals, in order to ensure the viability and enhance the sustainability of both existing arts festivals and those that will be created in the future. Particular attention will be paid to their capacity to develop their own strategic planning and to be able to set themselves, as institutional organisations, the basis for their further development and evolution.
Potential beneficiaries of the Programme are institutions organising single or multi-thematic arts festivals, i.e. festivals relating to the performing arts of theatre, dance and music, as well as the literary, visual and applied arts, and cinema. They should be festivals that are based on a specific rationale for their organisation, giving impetus to contemporary Cypriot artistic creation and emphasising the participation of Cypriot creative artists through their programme of events, as well as promoting the artistic education and cultural extroversion of the Cypriot public, bringing them into creative and fruitful contact with artistic events from abroad.
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