Suisseculture Sociale launches Artists Take Action initiative
Suisseculture Sociale is launching the Artists Take Action initiative with an awareness-raising campaign and an online guide to social insurance for cultural professionals.
The precarious financial situation of many cultural professionals in Switzerland has been known for some time and has been reminded once again due to the pandemic, writes Suisseculture. Due to the atypical forms of work common in the cultural sector, social security is insufficiently guaranteed.
Suisseculture Sociale, an umbrella organization of professional cultural workers, which provided emergency aid for cultural workers on behalf of the federal government during the Covid pandemic, is taking this as an opportunity to publish a report entitled Artists Take Action to launch an initiative. This includes a guide designed to provide cultural professionals with an introduction to social insurance, forms of business and employment law, as well as a national awareness campaign on social media.
The initiative is backed by the umbrella organizations Suisseculture and Suisseculture Sociale as well as the professional associations A*dS - Authors of Switzerland, ARF/FDS - Swiss Association of Film Directors and Screenwriters, Danse Suisse, GSFA - Groupement Suisse du Film d'Animation, SMV - Swiss Musicians' Association, SONART - Swiss Musicians, SSFV - Swiss Syndicate for Film and Video, t. - Theaterschaffen Schweiz and Visarte - Swiss Visual Arts Association.
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