Culture sector plans multi-day November campaign over funding and pay crisis
Representatives of the culture sector are planning a multi-day campaign called "Kultūra (iz)dzīvo" for November. It aims to draw public attention to insufficient funding and a pay crisis among cultural workers.
Representatives of the culture sector are preparing a multi-day campaign in November under the name "Kultūra (iz)dzīvo" ("Culture Lives / Survives"). The goal is to draw public attention to the sector's insufficient funding and to a crisis in the pay of cultural workers, the organisers said.
The name plays on words: with the prefix "iz" in brackets, it can be read both as "culture lives" and as "culture survives".
Participants will present the planned campaign. The source does not say where the events will take place or on which November dates. It also does not specify what actions the campaign will include.
The organisers describe the problem in two ways: as inadequate funding for the sector as a whole, and as a crisis in the pay of people working in culture. Through the campaign they want these issues to reach a wider audience.
