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The SDC Community of Practice "Culture Matters" is primarily intended to promote the exchange of culture and development issues within the SDC. However, the website also serves as a public platform for information on the SDC's cultural commitments. "Culture Matters" also has a blog to promote the exchange of experience and good practice in culture and development. We can notify you of new posts on this blog by email if you wish.
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Overview of the Cultural Engagement 2009

This overview presents the cultural engagement of SDC in the South and the East in 2009. It synthesizes the results of a study,


  • Cultural Engagement in the South and the East: Overview 2009
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Culture and Art: An Ideal Instrument for Social Change

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Culture plays a key role in development cooperation. This is why the SDC supports selected cultural projects in Switzerland and its partner countries.

Culture strategy 2010-2015
Principles of SDC Cultural Policy

Cultural projects in the South and East
The SDC supports selected cultural projects in all the different fields in its partner countries and priority regions. The guiding principle applied here is that at least one percent of the total budget is allocated to the promotion of local culture.

Examples of regional cultural programmes:
Central Asia
Western Balkans  

Focus on film and music in Switzerland
In Switzerland, the SDC facilitates the access of artists from the countries of the South and East to the Swiss public, the international cultural market and to professional networks. It does this in cooperation with professional partner organisations. The two priority areas are film and music – given their market relevance and dissemination potential.

Events and projects in Switzerland supported by the SDC
The SDC supports the following Swiss organisations and projects in the implementation of its cultural strategy through a federal contribution or mandate.

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Film festivals of national/regional importance
The SDC maintains partnerships with four Swiss film festivals of national/regional importance. These festivals are committed to supporting “world cinema” and give film-makers from the South and East and their works easier access to Swiss audiences, the international market and professional networks.

Local festivals and events
Artlink, the competence centre for art and culture from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, has received a mandate by the SDC to support local film festivals and events in Switzerland which are committed to bringing films from the South and East (non EU-countries) to their regions, in the framework of the Südkulturfonds.

Artlink
www.artlink.ch

Film distribution
The SDC supports the Trigon-Film foundation and its work in promoting and distributing outstanding films from the South and East in Swiss cinemas. Most of these films are also released on DVD by Trigon-film, for private use and for libraries and schools.

Trigon-Film
www.trigon-film.ch

Film production
The Visions sud-est Fund supports film productions from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe (non EU-countries), guarantees their distribution in Switzerland and aims at making them visible worldwide.

Visions Sud Est
www.visionssudest.ch

Music
 Artlink, the competence centre for art and culture from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, has received a mandate by the SDC to manage the Südkulturfonds for the promotion and support of creative artists from the South and East (non EU-countries). Its focus is on music.

Artlink
www.artlink.ch
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Literature
The SDC supports the holding of the Salon africain du livre, de la culture et de la presse – an international attraction at the Salon du livre in Geneva.

Salon du livre
www.salondulivre.ch

Theatre
The Zurich Theater Spektakel provides artists from the South and East with an ideal platform to present their work to Swiss audiences and to create networks. The SDC helps to finance performances by countries from the South and East.

Zürcher Theater Spektakel
www.theaterspektakel.ch

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