09.06.2008 - Prague to allot same sum to culture as in 2007 after protests
The additional funding is conditioned by an economic, personnel and organisational audit in the culture organisations that receive grants for several years.
The city will also cancel the grant commission and will transform the current grant system.
Bem and Richter (both Civic Democrats, ODS) also said that the transformation of Prague theatres, that now work as subsidised organisations, would be temporarily halted.
A number of cultural personalities criticised the grant system as well as the transformation of municipal theatres and competitions for theatre directors and staged demonstrations against it.
The protests by dissatisfied theatre artists culminated by the Days of Unrest in late May.
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Bem also confirmed that the City Assembly would scrap the system of subsidies theatres receive according to the number of tickets sold.
The system, recently launched by Richter, raised massive protests of theatre artists as it made no difference between commercial and non-profit theatres.
(Ceske Noviny)
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