More cantonal funding for the Lucerne Festival
The Lucerne Festival Foundation is to receive a higher annual operating contribution from the Zweckverband Grosse Kulturbetriebe Kanton Luzern. The festival wants to "realign itself artistically". The canton also wants to further develop regional cultural promotion in general.
The cantonal operating contribution to the Lucerne Festival currently amounts to CHF 1.168 million and is to be increased to CHF 2.298 million by 2026. To increase the subsidy from the Canton of Lucerne, its contribution to the Zweckverband Grosse Kulturbetriebe will be gradually increased by CHF 660,000 from 2023.
With the planned artistic reorientation, the Lucerne Festival Foundation is opening itself up to "innovations in the international cultural sector", according to the canton's press release. The new formats are not only aimed at the public in the summer, but also throughout the year.
The Cantonal Council's Education, Training and Culture Committee (EBKK) also discussed the message submitted by the cantonal government on the reorganization of regional cultural funding. The EBKK misses the fact that the cantonal structural support of regionally important cultural institutions is regulated. It requested by a large majority that the dispatch be rejected and demanded that the cantonal government prepare the project and structural funding as a complete package for political consultation.
With the requested rejection, a majority of the committee is calling on the cantonal government to draw up a cantonal regulation and co-financing of regional structural support in accordance with the working and steering group's review mandate.
