Jaarverslag 2012 - NIAf

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The art sector made it quite clear that it
disagreed with this proportionately-enormous
cutback in the culture budget. Together with
the other postgraduate institutes the NIAf wrote
various letters to both the State Secretary
and the Council for Culture. Talks were also
conducted with several Members of Parliament
and the HBO Council. The NIAf, in accordance
with the State Secretary’s recommendation,
considered to what extent it might find its own
financing from its sector or the education sector.
The result was negative. The reasons for this
were, among other things, that the animation
sector, partly due to the financing per film
project, lacked financial headroom while the
education sector is currently being compelled to
reduce art education.
N o r t h B r a b a n t
In the meantime the Province of North Brabant
was standing up for the art sector. The NIAf,
together with filmmakers, organisations and
aldermen from the five large cities and the
members of the Provincial Executive council
worked together on an agreement for the future
of culture in the province, this initiative was the
so-called BrabantBod. Headed by Brigitte van
Haaften, a member of the Provincial Executive,
the parties in The Hague protested against
the cutback in the national subsidy to cultural
institutes in North Brabant. This afforded little
consolation.
The Province of North Brabant also
announced cutbacks, expressed in a
Culture Policy Document presented in
December 2011. There was no mention in
this policy document of a policy, nor of a
subsidy scheme for the visual arts, design
and audiovisual media, i.e. visual culture. In
January 2012 a large number of art institutes
formulated a letter calling into question,
among other things, this lacuna in the policy.
This led to setting up a consultation with
a number of representatives from the arts
sector in North Brabant, including the NIAf,
referred to as the C10 (derived from the club
of 10 because this was the maximum number
with which the province would meet). In
October the Provincial Executive requested
the C10 to present its own perspective on the
distribution of the € 6 million incentive sum
for culture for the 2013-2016 period. Three
weeks later the C10 presented its vision in
which other visual and audiovisual arts as well
as the development of talent were handled
separately. The date set for the Provincial
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