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ff Acting as a special expert for the cultural
administration at the different stages
of decision-making in the city.
ff Developing a model for funding and
agreements through which the coordinator’s
work could continue after the project period.
The duties of the community artists would include:
ff Promoting the visibility of minorities and special
groups as creators of culture in Rovaniemi.
ff Arranging meetings with members of minorities
and special groups and the majority population.
ff Creating a partnership or partnerships with a
special group for the duration of his or her term.
ff Together with his or her group, planning how
the group wants to become visible: through
shows, exhibitions and music, as well as the
working process used by the artist and group.
ff Creating a work or works of art together with
his or her group, and giving all the inhabitants
of the city the opportunity to experience
them in a manner suitable for the art form.
ff Make applied or communal art visible to
all the inhabitants of the city 2–3 times
per year: during the Rovaniemi week, the
winter season, and at the end of spring.
ff Participating in and encouraging discussion
about cultural policy about the realisation
of equality in different fields of art.
The decision-makers are present
Rovaniemi must bring its decision-making regarding
cultural policy closer to the inhabitants and actors. The Proposals:
decision-makers need experiential knowledge, not just
numbers, in order to support their policy decisions.
The actors hope to meet, for example, the members of
the Leisure Board as users of their own activities.
Proposals:
ff The cultural administration organises an annual
meeting for the actors in the cultural sector, for
example before the application periods for cultural
grants. At the event, the board can request ideas
or comments for its policy decisions as well as
feedback regarding the functioning of the system.
As for the actors, they can present themselves and
make proposals; they will also receive information
about funding opportunities. It is important that
the new actors in particular are presented.
ff The actors in the cultural sector have
information on how they can best reach
the Leisure Board and what kind of
communications will serve the board best.
ff The parties arranging cultural events
invite political actors to their events.
ff Seminars, discussion events and meetings
with the subject of regional cultural policy
are held in Rovaniemi. The organisers may
include the University of Lapland, the City
of Rovaniemi, the Arts Promotion Centre
Finland, as well as smaller actors.
ff The political parties make statements about the
cultural policy, the use of the applied methods of
culture and the organisation of equality in their
own programmes, and they also keep bringing
these subjects up for political discussion.
The actors in the field have
formed a network
In Rovaniemi, the parties working with immigration
through the means of art and culture have formed a
co-operative network during the Kultti project. They
should continue the joint discussion, coordinating
their work together, and utilising each other’s
experience and expertise. The network should be
made known to the inhabitants of the municipality
and national actors. It should be easy to start
participating in the network.
When the members of the network know each
other and share an atmosphere of trust, it is easy for
everyone to find a partner in co-operation.
ff The Kultti employees will add a list of the parties
that participated in drawing up the cultural
sector integration programme on the project
website with their contact information.
ff The network of actors will find out the means and
responsibilities for maintaining the list of contact
information during the transition period and after it.
ff In case of personnel changes or similar, the actors
do not forget to update their own information.
ff The network of actors will establish a
common electronic discussion platform.
The actors will use it regularly to support
co-operation and planning together.
ff When the members of the network participate
in national events, they bring what they have
learnt back to be shared with the local network.
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