Outgoing Minister of Culture Tõnis Lukas (Isamaa) has signed a regulation ensuring support for the managing teams of participants in the Estonian Song and Dance Festival (Laulupidu). The Estonian Folk Culture Center is to deal with the application rounds, and the first of these will be accepted from March 1. So far, it has been self-evident that the supervisors prepare the dancers, choirs and orchestras alongside their main job, for a notional salary, based on a sense of mission, Lukas said. I hope this is an opportunity which is occurring now, to motivate both the younger and current supervisors and then the tradition will continue in its known quality.
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Crisis support for culture, sport, adults hobby activities approved in Estonia (expands)
BC, Tallinn, 18.12.2020.
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The Estonian government on Thursday approved an order to continue economic crisis support measures also in 2021, among other things, a support measure for areas under the area of government of the Ministry of Culture was agreed upon involving support to culture, sport and adults hobby activities.
Support to be paid out through the Ministry of Culture totals close to 1.4 million euros, spokespeople for the ministry said. The measure was drawn up with a special focus on East-Viru County.