Parliamentary Group

DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 46 /XI/1.

IT RECOMMENDS THE GOVERNMENT TO CREATE THE MODALITY OF SUPPORT A

"FIRST WORKS" IN THE FRAMEWORK OF DIRECT SUPPORTS TO THE ARTS

ASSIGNED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE

Exhibition of reasons

The Ministry of Culture, through the General Directorate of the Arts, finances the creation and diffusion

artistic in the terms of the Decree-Law No. 225/2006 of November 13 with the

amendments to the Decree-Law No. 196/2008 of October 6 and through the process of

regulated tenders at the Portaria n. 1204-A/2008.

Direct support for the arts by the Ministry of Culture is an essential investment in the

culture, which simultaneously promotes artistic creation and access of populations to the

art. These supports contemplate the areas of the arts plastics, architecture, design, the

dance, photography, multimedia, music, theatre and artistic crossodness.

The current legislation provides for four modalities of support: four-year support, biennial support,

annual support and punctual support. These modalities of support respond to diverse models

of organizing the structures and entities that engage in artistic creation and diffusion,

but exclude any consideration of the need for generational renewal.

In fact, the tendering procedure ends up by, by putting young creators to

run directly with consecrated creators, systematically penalise the

young creators, as they are unable to compete in the scoring relative to the

curricula and evidence given of artistic quality and managerial ability.

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This system has been a clear impediment to access of funding by young people

creators, serious problem for which they have been calling attention to professionals in the sector

and that it calls into question the healthy and essential renewal of the Portuguese artistic fabric.

The importance of supporting "early works", and the need for your specific

regulation, is already recognized in the scope of supports for film production,

that, pursuant to the Decree-Law 227/2006 of November 15, the enshrinth

explicitly. It is necessary for this recognition to extend to other areas

artistic.

Thus, in the applicable constitutional and regimental terms, the Assembly of

Republic recommends to the Government that:

1) Create the modality of support for "first works", in the framework of direct supports to

arts provided for in Decree-Law No. 225/2006 of November 13, with the

amendments to Decree-Law No 196/2008 of October 6;

2) Define the legal scope of "early works" for the various artistic areas

provided for in Decree-Law No 225/2006 of November 13, with the amendments of the

Decree-Law No. 196/2008 of October 6 after hearing of the agents of the sector.

Assembly of the Republic, December 22, 2009.

The Deputies and Deputies of the Left Bloc,