Securing the future of musical diversity
The Austrian Music Council (ÖMR) has published a position paper on the arts and culture strategy in Austria. It has developed proposals for the development of music in a series of working groups.
In 2021, the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS) launched the process of drawing up a federal arts and culture strategy and is now concluding the first phase of the survey and participation of artists, interest groups and civil society. The next steps for the arts and culture strategy will be announced at a dialog forum in early autumn 2022.
In an internal process with the active participation of many music organizations from education, art and business, positions and demands were developed on the following topics: Culture as a national objective, cultural diversity, funding/awards & competitions, amateur music & semi-professional ensembles, social situation of musicians & fair pay, inclusion, music education (schools/music schools), music universities, music education, music industry/securing the location, professionalization, copyright law/copyright contract law, broadcasting, international networking, music exports, development policy.
The photo shows the coordinator of the arts and culture strategy Lorenz Birklbauer (BMKÖS) as well as ÖMR Secretary General Günther Wildner and ÖMR President Harald Huber at the handover of the position paper in Wiener Neustadt.
Position paper of the ÖMR:
https://oemr.at/wp-content/uploads/O%CC%88MR_Kunst-und-Kulturstrategie_Positionspapier_2022.pdf
