The Zurich City Council is asking the municipal council to increase the annual support contribution for the Zurich Festival by CHF 200,000. The additional funds should "specifically and exclusively benefit artistic productions by medium-sized and smaller cultural institutions".
With this increase, the city is supporting what it considers to be the successful reorientation of the Zurich Festival, and it will enable more productions from medium-sized and smaller cultural institutions to be included in the Festival program, according to the official press release.
This would make the festival even more "a cultural festival for the city and region of Zurich and an attractive conclusion to Zurich's cultural year".
The city council is also asking the municipal council to extend the contributions to Theater Rigiblick for the years 2014 to 2017, which expire at the end of 2013. The annual support is to be increased by CHF 100,000 to a new total of CHF 490,000. Support for Miller's Studio is to be continued from 2014 to 2017 at the same annual level of CHF 154,640.
