PROPOSAL OF THE MUNICIPAL GROUP OF ERC PASSED BY THE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL RIGHTS, CULTURE AND SPORTS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF BARCELONA 17/09/19

Commitment to the artists, the creators and the culture professionals and the grassroots and community culture in Barcelona

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In general terms, the proposal is:

– Barcelona City Council will play a leading role in advocating for artist, creators and culture professionals and implement the good practices drafted by ConCA within the framework of the elaboration of the Statute of the Artist;

– Good practices in procurement specifications and on the terms of the calls for subsidies for cultural projects, so that they are also compulsory for subcontracting companies and for organisations that receive municipal subsidies;

– Allocate a budget line and specific subsidies in order to support community-based cultural spaces and projects, as they are the artistic reservoir of the city;

– Draft a map of Barcelona based culture projects that are in danger and it will also produce a legal and economic report that will help to design a municipal strategy to deal effectively with real estate pressure and the rest of the problems that threaten the continuity of many spaces of independent culture;

– Ensure the continuity of spaces and projects that make up Barcelona’s independent the cultural circuit;

– Create the Creator’s Accompanying Unit at ICUB;

– Set up a working group with representatives from all political groups of the City Council in order to promote the passage of the Statute of the Artist at the Spanish Parliament, and to ensure that both the Spanish Government as well as the Catalan Government take responsibility and implement the proposals submitted by the CoNCA and the professional associations of the cultural industry.

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