Ministry of Culture

I worked for the Interior Ministry of Culture in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At that time there were four co-equal parts of cultural policy and programs.

Not-for-profit Arts and Heritage were of equal importance because ‘we need roots as well as wings’.

Libraries are fundamental community infrastructure funded through the tax base in most cities and therefore a separate category of culture.

Finally, Cultural Industries and Agencies were commercial activities and the ‘electric’ (now digital) cultural/creative industries and large-scale cultural institutions funded directly by the Provincial Government.

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