Debate on cultural promotion in Schwyz
An interpellation demands that the Schwyz cantonal government examine whether project-related cantonal cultural funding can be supplemented by financial support for the infrastructure of cultural institutions.
In its response, the Government Council sees no need for action to deviate from the previous strategic orientation (subject-based instead of object-based cultural promotion). In view of the still highly decentralized cultural life with numerous activities in the municipalities and districts, the lack of an actual cantonal cultural center is still hardly perceived as a deficiency. Rather, what is needed are local event and cultural spaces that meet the needs of associations and cultural professionals.
In some municipalities that recognize an active cultural life as a locational advantage, such spaces have been created in recent years or are repeatedly available to cultural professionals in the form of interim use. The additional possibility of assuming infrastructure costs as part of cultural promotion also entails the risk of financial resources being dispersed.
The entire answer to the interpellation:
https://www.sz.ch/public/upload/assets/53315/P_Kulturförderung.pdf
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