FIDC I Résultats du dernier cycle

The revised white paper policy on arts, culture and heritage priorities are: Support for arts, culture and heritage based on diversity and social, gender, disability and youth inclusion. • Creating conditions for South Africa’s diverse culture to flourish and interact freely. • Harnessing linguistic diversity, including sign language, as a resource for empowering all South Africans to participate in the country’s cultural, educational, social, political and economic life. • Equitable protection, development and preservation of the country’s diverse artistic practices, cultures and heritage traditions. • Providing quality basic and tertiary education and skills training in arts, culture and heritage. • Incorporating arts, culture and heritage in diplomacy and international cooperation. • Developing local, regional and global audiences and markets for South African art, culture and heritage. • Promoting the social status and economic rights of arts, culture and heritage practitioners. • Establishing multiple public sources for funding for promoting and preserving arts, culture and heritage diversity. • The protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions. This presupposes the recognition of equal dignity of and respect for all cultures, including the cultures of persons belonging to minorities and of indigenous peoples. • All cultures in every country in the world, balanced by national and local needs and priorities, are in principle open to and act upon each other. • Sustainable development: Art, culture and heritage are critical mainsprings of innovation and social and economic development based on modes that conserve, renew and expand resources for present and future generations. • Applying new digital technologies for the production, preservation and dissemination of diverse arts, culture and heritage produced and practices.