Berlin Senate Aug 31, 2015: Where are our TIME GRANTS ?!
Avatara Plenara Zeitstipendia annoyed by the Berlin Senate’s draft budget 2016/17 – Where are our TIME GRANTS ?!
Invitation
On Monday at 12 am the draft budget will be read in the Culture Committee of the Berlin House of Representatives. Come and demand the TIME GRANTS with us.
Monday, August 31, 2015, 11.45 am
(in German)
Meeting point: Entrance of the Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus
Niederkirchnerstraße 5, Berlin-Mitte
Register here
2016/17 additional financial resources will be available for the Independent Scene through City Tax and Berlin´s higher tax revenues. But the demands from the Independent Scene Coalition´s 10-Point-Program are not met in the Berlin Senate’s draft budget. Only 2.6 Million Euro are mentioned, that is 14% of the demanded 18,1 Million Euro.
Among the additions in the culture budget are – finally – the artists’ exhibition fees. The bbk berlin and the Independent Scene Coalition demanded 1 Million Euro, the title is supposed to receive 300.000 Euro. In comparison: For additional staff and operating cost the Berlin’s major institutions are supposed to receive an additional 28 Million Euro.
Not only the TIME GRANTS are missing, but the majority of urgently necessary programs that are intended to support the underfunded artistic majority of Berlin. The financial means and articulated concepts for financing the Independent Scene are in place but an overdue reform and update of Berlin´s cultural funding is not being tackled. In spite of long-term development by the Independent Scene, bbk berlin or Haben und Brauchen the Berlin Senate has failed to build up a professional dialogue with the city´s independent artists and cultural producers and develop a participatory and sustainable system of financing.
This has to end! We demand the financing of our artistic work. It is about TIME – the MONEY is there!
The implementation process of the 2015/16 City Tax revenues, which could tot up to 47 Million Euro, starts on Monday at the Berlin House of Representatives. We demand that the TIME GRANTS and the further demands of the Independent Scene Coalition are part of the budget and covered by the City Tax.
We need your support to manifest and insist on the demand for 350 TIME GRANTS for the 10.000 visual artists of Berlin. Join Avatara Plenara Zeitstipendia and AG ZEIT (working group TIME) at the first reading of the draft budget at the Berlin House of Representatives this coming Monday.
Please register here – http://www.parlament-berlin.de/de/Service/Besucherdienst/Platzreservierung-Ausschuesse
AG ZEIT for Time Grants
in collaboration with the Independent Scene Coalition
supported by Bildungswerk bbk berlin e.V.