Stop subsidy for art festival "Decision must not be" Cultural Council November 7 16:23
A problem that the Agency for Cultural Affairs stopped granting subsidies at the Aichi International Art Festival. On the 7th, there were many criticisms from the council members saying that this decision should not be.
About 7800, the Agency for Cultural Affairs once adopted the international art festival in Aichi Prefecture, where some exhibitions such as a girl symbolizing comfort women were canceled, in September because the application procedure was inappropriate. We decided not to issue a subsidy of 10,000 yen.
On the 7th, the first meeting of the Council for Cultural Affairs, the Council for Cultural Affairs, was held.
At the meeting, the committee members who attended said, “It is a decision that cultural administration should not retreat,” or “Expression has criticism and irony about the time system and politics. "I showed the direction of not getting money," and so on, criticized the response this time.
Furthermore, while the committee members asked for a forum for public discussion about the process of the non-delivery decision, the Agency for Cultural Affairs explained that “the content was not evaluated and evaluated. I think it is necessary to make efforts. ”
Prof. Nobuko Kawashima of Doshisha University, who serves as the chairman of the department, said, “Now, the cultural industry is distrusting the Agency for Cultural Affairs.