Consultation on culture in the city of Berne
The Executive Board of the City of Bern has approved the 2024-2027 cultural message for public consultation. Due to the financial situation, funding for cultural promotion will be reduced by 1.8% compared to the previous period.
The Bern Puppet Theater and the Freiraum / Heitere Fahne collective will now receive a tripartite contract and the Bern Music Festival a municipal contract. The Bern Chamber Orchestra will no longer be supported by a tripartite contract. Together with the canton of Berne, the city wants to introduce new orchestra funding. All orchestras that meet certain professional criteria can apply for a four-year sponsorship in response to a public invitation to tender.
The municipal council focuses on sustainability in cultural production when promoting culture. Diversity and cultural diversity will be emphasized in greater depth. In order to facilitate access to funding, funding and expertise will be combined: A pool of expertise from additional areas will be created from the existing specialist commissions. The public consultation on the Cultural Dispatch will last until August 21, 2022.
For the years 2024-2027, the municipal council is focusing on sustainability as a cross-cutting theme in cultural promotion. The aim is for culture in Bern to be produced, presented and evaluated as sustainably as possible. The municipal council is paying particular attention to the social security of cultural professionals, process-oriented cultural promotion and the question of how the ecological footprint of cultural production can be reduced. The municipal council intends to deepen the focus on diversity and cultural diversity that already exists in the current cultural message.
For the years 2024-2027, CHF 33,029,534 per year is available for direct cultural promotion. Compared to the previous period, which saw growth of around 10 percent, this corresponds to a reduction of around 1.8 percent or CHF 605,000.
