Over 176 organizations and foundations in Cluj received a total amount of over 16.2 million lei (of which 700,000 for 12 social projects), the largest in the history of Cluj, as declared by the mayor Emil Boc, for a number of 164 cultural or social projects. The allocations for culture, i.e. the amount of 15.5 million lei, were made according to the regulations until now, contested even by the Cluj cultural section, which asked the mayor at the beginning of the year to change the allocation rules. Then, Emil Boc accused the people in the cultural sector of making theater. Later, the mayor convened a working group to prepare, within a month, a new regulation, as he was requested by the cultural institutions and organizations in Cluj who also signed a petition to this effect, supported by USR councilors . Another supporter of the sector is deputy Sabin Sărmaș, independent candidate for Cluj City Hall.
The allocations for the Cluj cultural sector were voted by the local councilors in an extraordinary meeting convened on April 23.
A number of 164 cultural projects received a total allocation of 15.5 million lei, the highest so far. Also, 12 other social projects received allocations of 700,000 lei, in the same meeting.
As for the cultural sector, the top of the list is the Transilvania International Film Festival with an allocation of 1.8 million lei.
Next, the Cluj Cultural Center received an allocation of 1.4 million lei and the Hungarian Cultural Days received an allocation of 710,000 lei.
In the case of the Local Council meeting, the USR councilors amended the fact that the allocations for culture were still made according to the old regulation.
In response, Mayor Boc showed that he had already convened a working group that had not yet presented him with a final form of regulation to put up for public debate, requesting a respite until June 3. “When they agree on this regulation, the next day they submit it for public debate. All those interested please get involved”, said mayor Emil Boc.
Among the signatories of the letter of support for the financing of culture on OG51/1998 are important cultural institutions from Cluj Napoca, such as the Cluj Cultural Center, the Transilvania International Film Festival (through Tudor Giurgiu and Cristian Hordilă), the Romanian National Opera, the Hungarian State Theater ( by Tompa Gabor), the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, the State Philharmonic, the Hungarian Opera in Cluj, the Lucian Blaga National Theatre.
The regulation aims to support local cultural producers, by passing the funding on the basis of OG51, a special culture law, which ensures the transparency and depoliticization of the selection procedure of cultural projects and provides for the multiannual budgeting and the creation of other support tools, such as artistic residencies and creative grants , so that Cluj-Napoca will continue to have a dynamic cultural life.
Cluj artists also participated in the meeting of the Local Council on Monday, February 12, to explain directly to the mayor Emil Boc why local culture needs this regulation submitted by the leader of the group of USR councilors, Alexandra Oană, in December, but the mayor Emil Boc met with insults, accusing them of being theatrical.
See also:
The representatives of the cultural sector in Cluj-Napoca asked the mayor Emil Boc to adopt a regulation for the financing of culture/The mayor’s reaction: We don’t do theater in any situation
Sabin Sărmaș: “I support the people of culture from Cluj. They are not performing circus, as they are accused”
photo: Tudor Giurgiu/Facebook
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Luminita Silea
He has been a reporter at ActualdeCluj.ro since April 2014. He worked at the daily Ziua de Cluj from its launch in 2004 until April 2014. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of “Babeș-Bolyai” University in 2004 and has two master’s degrees – in Public Administration at the same university and in Communication and Public Relations at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) Bucharest.
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