Ausserrhoden cultural contributions
With the second funding tranche of 2017 from the Culture Fund, the Government Council of Appenzell Ausserrhoden is supporting five projects with a total of CHF 79,700, including a multimedia publication by the band Europa: Neue Leichtigkeit.
Two of the five projects are cross-cantonal: The four-year pilot project "Book and Literature East+", which is supported by all the cantons of Eastern Switzerland, and the juried exhibition "Heimspiel", which takes place every three years. The other sponsored projects are "Unter Artgenossen" by Kathrin Bosshard's Theater Fleisch + Pappe and Philipp Langenegger's musical reading entitled "Vo Heeme" about Jakob Hartmann, one of the most important Appenzell dialect poets.
In the first half of the year, the canton's Department of Education and Culture also awarded a total of CHF 114,376 to 52 applications. The supported projects are listed in the cantonal cultural journal Obacht Kultur No. 28.
