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The
predicted budget for all cultural institutions
in Pirot Region is
the total amount of 23 millions
SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR
CULTURE
Cultural
workers very often compelled to pay for their
projects
PIROT - Civic
reading-room "Pirgos" has organized, within the
project "Promotion of pluralism by strengthening NGO
and the civil sector", a tribune, titled:
"Strategic development of culture in Pirot". The
project is being realized under the auspices of the
Hellenic Government and the European Union. As Srdjan
Tomov from civic reading-room stated, the main aim of the
tribune is improving of the cultural life in Pirot Region.
Directors
of Cultural Center, National Theater and Museum of
Ponisavlje, a great number of cultural workers and
non-governmental organisations whose field of work is
organising cultural events in town participated within the
conversation.
As
it was expected, the numerous questions regarding cultural
development and problems of the civic cultural
institutions that express primarily the absence of
adequate working places and personal financing were put
during the discussion.
Cultural
institutions have to be placed in the market in order to
earn their own money and not to be oriented to the budget
of the municipality, since the mentioned budget covers
only the salaries of the employees and some material
costs, Mr. Nebojsa Icic, Director of Cultural Center and
member of DOS political party in Municipality Assembly
Pirot, stated.
There
are around 80 people employed in the following
institutions: Cultural Center, National Theater, National
Library, Historical Archive, Museum of Ponisavlje, and
"Cedomir Krstic" Galery. From the municipal
budget during the year 2002, it is separated 18 million
dinars for the culture. From this amount neither 10 per
cent was left over for the programmes. The budget for the
culture for this year is 23 million dinars but "with our programmes we have to go to the market", Mr. Ilic
said.
Speaking
about the problems of cultural institutions of Pirot,
pointed out on the space problems, emphasizing the fact
that constructing of the building within the area of
former Center of YNA, the cultural institutions as well as
the other cultural organisations would get the new and
indispensable working place for the period of two or three
years, Mr. Predrag Pejhic, Director of Museum Ponisavlje
stated. In the same context, Mr. Pejic see the Middle Ages
town of Momcilo as a cultural capital but with investment
this space to be a real stage (as towns Budva and
Dubrovnik still are).
Engaging
the actors from "other sides"
As
Mr. Slobodan Aleksic, Director of National Theater said,
this institution stood as the smallest theatre in Serbia
for years but besides all the theatre performed the
projects which have had their own public out of the
municipality borders.
The
theater's personal capacity will be more and more less
connected with the register house and according to the
necessities, the actors and directors will be engaged for
determinated projects, - Mr. Aleksic said. He announced
that this theatre performs the project for Pirot to be
host for World Festival of Ethno-theater.
Mr.
Momcilo Antic, Professional Collaborator of National
Library, said that cultural identity of Pirot is not
achieved.
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Creators of Pirot have to produce more aggressively and to
impose authentic cultural values by which ones Pirot is
recognized. There is productively creation, that
unfortunately stays only in municipal and regional frames,
Serbia has no presentation of this – Mr. Antic said.
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The participants of the tribune agreed that the team work
and the cooperation between official cultural institutions
and alternative and non-governmental organizations whose
field of work is culture are the necessities. However the
most important problem is the money which we have never
had enough for the culture in this town. In this sense,
the help from the Municipality Assembly is still well
expected and besides attempt of the market orientation of some institutions.
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