Cut the cuts!
Cut the cuts! is a wake-up call from artists and the public at large on behalf of the arts and culture. It comprises a Great Culture Petition from open from October 1 to December 4 and a demonstration on December 5, when the signed Petition will be delivered to the Finnish Government.
(To be read at the start of events: at theatres, concert halls, evening institutes, libraries, etc.)
The Finnish Government is proposing unprecedented cuts in the funding for Finnish culture.
The cuts are disproportionate and short-sighted and will strike at the very foundations and framework of Finnish cultural life.
The mindless cuts will not result in savings; rather, they will mean greater unemployment and will prevent countless Finns from having access to culture and enjoying and benefitting from its riches.
Independent Finland cannot exist without a culture of its own.
Access to the arts and culture is a fundamental right.
We demand that the cuts be revoked.
(We appeal to all of you here today to stay behind after this performance/concert/event and defend your right to the arts and culture by signing the Great Culture Petition 2024 on behalf of the arts and culture. The Petition will be delivered to the Finnish Government on December 5. You can scan the Petition via the QR-code in the foyer/entrance hall. Please ask our staff if you need any assistance.)
https://www.adressit.com/sakset_seis
(To be read at the start of events: at theatres, concert halls, evening institutes, libraries, etc.)
The Finnish Government is proposing unprecedented cuts in the funding for Finnish culture.
The cuts are disproportionate and short-sighted and will strike at the very foundations and framework of Finnish cultural life.
The mindless cuts will not result in savings; rather, they will mean greater unemployment and will prevent countless Finns from having access to culture and enjoying and benefitting from its riches.
Independent Finland cannot exist without a culture of its own.
Access to the arts and culture is a fundamental right.
We demand that the cuts be revoked.
(We appeal to all of you here today to stay behind after this performance/concert/event and defend your right to the arts and culture by signing the Great Culture Petition 2024 on behalf of the arts and culture. The Petition will be delivered to the Finnish Government on December 5. You can scan the Petition via the QR-code in the foyer/entrance hall. Please ask our staff if you need any assistance.)
https://www.adressit.com/sakset_seis
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The Great Culture Petition
The short-sighted and disproportionate cuts proposed by the Finnish Government are a threat to our fundamental rights to culture and wellbeing.
The arts and culture surround us wherever we are in some way or another. They may take the form of a performance, library, museum, exhibition, concert, TV series, film, book, dancing or singing. Our houses, furniture and clothes have been created by artists, who have also designed our household goods and our means of transport. The arts and culture are part of our lives in so many different ways that we cannot even imagine a world without them.
Culture affects us all, irrespective of our origins. It maintains our languages and our cultural heritage in all its diversity. Culture puts us in touch with the world and international ideas.
Culture gives us pleasure, a sense of community and empathy, helps to solve the multiple problems of democracy and to build a future for our children and young people.
Without culture, society becomes increasingly sick.
Culture is the source of our identity; it feeds technological innovations and economic growth. The arts and culture are also major exports. The arts and culture are major employers; the euros invested in them repay themselves many times over.
It is wrong to clip the wings of a growing sector of the economy when we should be investing in it!
Culture accounts for only a very small percentage of Finland’s government spending.
The proposed cuts in the funding for culture will endanger the development of our whole society. The Government’s proposed cuts are, as a percentage, vast and seriously at odds with the objectives of the Government programme.
It is precisely thanks to the arts that Finland has achieved a bigger place for itself on the world map than its size would imply. We have long trusted in the ability of the arts to connect and to give ourselves a voice and identity.
If our culture atrophies, so will Finland as an independent state.
We oppose the catastrophic cuts that threaten our right to culture. This is not the first time we Finns have collectively demonstrated our strength. In 1899, a Great Petition was signed by more than half a million people determined to prove the burning desire of a small nation for independence and a culture of its own.
Our culture is now being threatened by the mindless powers-that-be in our very own land.
We demand that the Finnish Government revoke its proposed cuts to the arts and culture and instead ensure their basic funding even in times of crisis!
The arts and culture surround us wherever we are in some way or another. They may take the form of a performance, library, museum, exhibition, concert, TV series, film, book, dancing or singing. Our houses, furniture and clothes have been created by artists, who have also designed our household goods and our means of transport. The arts and culture are part of our lives in so many different ways that we cannot even imagine a world without them.
Culture affects us all, irrespective of our origins. It maintains our languages and our cultural heritage in all its diversity. Culture puts us in touch with the world and international ideas.
Culture gives us pleasure, a sense of community and empathy, helps to solve the multiple problems of democracy and to build a future for our children and young people.
Without culture, society becomes increasingly sick.
Culture is the source of our identity; it feeds technological innovations and economic growth. The arts and culture are also major exports. The arts and culture are major employers; the euros invested in them repay themselves many times over.
It is wrong to clip the wings of a growing sector of the economy when we should be investing in it!
Culture accounts for only a very small percentage of Finland’s government spending.
The proposed cuts in the funding for culture will endanger the development of our whole society. The Government’s proposed cuts are, as a percentage, vast and seriously at odds with the objectives of the Government programme.
It is precisely thanks to the arts that Finland has achieved a bigger place for itself on the world map than its size would imply. We have long trusted in the ability of the arts to connect and to give ourselves a voice and identity.
If our culture atrophies, so will Finland as an independent state.
We oppose the catastrophic cuts that threaten our right to culture. This is not the first time we Finns have collectively demonstrated our strength. In 1899, a Great Petition was signed by more than half a million people determined to prove the burning desire of a small nation for independence and a culture of its own.
Our culture is now being threatened by the mindless powers-that-be in our very own land.
We demand that the Finnish Government revoke its proposed cuts to the arts and culture and instead ensure their basic funding even in times of crisis!