The Senate approved today (23) the bill that establishes the national policy to promote the cultural sector, with a duration of five years. Named the Aldir Blanc National Policy for the Promotion of Culture, the Bill 1518/2021 0provides annual transfers of R$ 3 billion from the Union to states and municipalities for actions in the sector. The text goes to presidential sanction.
The policy is aimed at cultural workers, entities and individuals and legal entities that work in the production, dissemination, promotion, preservation and acquisition of artistic and cultural goods, products or services, including material and immaterial cultural heritage. In all, 17 groups of cultural activities can be contemplated.
States and municipalities must invest 80% of the funds received in actions to support the cultural sector through public notices, public calls, awards and purchases of cultural goods and services, in addition to subsidies for the maintenance of artistic spaces and cultural environments that develop regular and permanently in their territories and communities.
The remaining 20% of the money must be transferred directly to actions to encourage programs, projects and actions to democratize access to artistic and cultural production in urban and rural peripheral areas, as well as traditional peoples and communities.
In order to receive the money, the federative entities must prove that they already invest in culture with their own resources, an amount not inferior to the average of the amounts consigned in the last three years.
The bill was inspired by the Aldir Blanc Law, created and approved by Congress to provide emergency assistance to the cultural sector during the covid-19 pandemic. In the period, actors, musicians, visual artists and cultural producers were not able to promote or participate in events. The Aldir Blanc National Policy came from this idea, but giving stability and a longer term, of five years, of financial stimulus to the promotion of art in the country.
Aldir Blanc
Aldir Blanc was a Brazilian writer and composer who died of covid-19 in May 2020. In the 1960s, he participated in several song festivals, composing songs performed by Clara Nunes, Taiguara and Maria Creuza.
But it was in the 1970s that he composed his biggest hit. With the partnership of João Bosco and in the voice of Elis Regina, the world got to know The drunk and the tightrope walker. In 1978, he published the chronicles Rua dos Artistas and surroundings. In 1981, dry cleaning door (1981). The two works were later brought together in 2006, in the edition Rua dos Artistas e transversalis, which also brought 14 chronicles written for the magazine Bundas and for the Brazilian newspaper.
