Cultura

Com Lula e Dilma, políticas públicas reconhecem e apoiam dimensão estratégica da Cultura para o país

Mais brasileiros produzindo e conquistando cada vez mais acesso a bens culturais. Este é o resultado dos 12 anos de governos Lula e Dilma, que legaram ao Brasil, pela primeira vez na história, uma autêntica política de Estado para a cultura. O orçamento cresceu de R$ 276,4 milhões em 2002 para R$ 3,27 bilhões em 2014.

Três Conferências Nacionais de Cultura garantiram voz ativa à sociedade civil. Mais de 4 mil pontos de cultura brotaram pelo país afora, fomentando a expressão cultural das comunidades. Mais e melhores bibliotecas públicas foram semeadas pelos quatro cantos do Brasil.

Reconhecendo a grandeza e a complexidade cultural do país, novas diretrizes foram tomadas. A democratização do acesso a bens, equipamentos, produtos e serviços culturais, a descentralização, a regionalização e a interiorização de políticas, além do reconhecimento da cultura como parte relevante da economia brasileira foram alguns dos eixos que passaram a nortear as ações do poder público.

What was already good we've improved. Created by Lula in 2014, the National Program Promoting Citizenship and Cultural Diversity (Living Culture) is now state policy. This ensures the continuity of the program's actions, independent of alternancy in the management of public administration.

Sanctioned by Dilma in 2014, the National Policy on Living Culture aims to increase access of the population to its cultural rights by strengthening the activities of cultural groups already active in the community.

The main tools to implement the new law are the Culture Points (non-profit cultural organizations that develop ongoing cultural activities in local communities); Large Culture Points (cultural spaces or regional and thematic networks that articulate the Culture Points) and the National Registry of Culture Points and Large Points (composed of groups that develop cultural activities and are certified by the Ministry of Culture).

The objectives of the National Living Culture Policy are:

• Ensure the full exercising of cultural rights to Brazilian citizens, providing them with the means and materials necessary to produce, record, manage and disseminate cultural initiatives;

• Encourage social leadership in the development and management of public culture policies;

• Promote a shared and participatory governance, supported by democratic mechanisms of dialogue with civil society;

• Consolidate the principles of social participation in cultural policies; • Ensure respect for culture as a right of citizenship and cultural diversity as a symbolic expression and an economic activity;

• Encourage existing cultural initiatives, through support and encouragement of the federal government, the States, the Federal District and the municipalities;

• Promote access to the means of cultural fruition, production and dissemination;

• Strengthen cultural initiatives, aimed at the construction of new cooperation and solidarity values, and expand education tools with education;

• Stimulate the exploitation, use and ownership of the codes, artistic languages and public and private spaces available for cultural action.