With lines adapted according to the pandemic and a budget of $36.500.000, managers, cultural creators and trainers, Independent artists and spaces can now sign up for this support line.

Under the purpose of continuing to accompany and support the work of cultural spaces, artists and cultural managers of the City, and before the suspension of activities caused by COVID-19, The Ministry of Culture of the City opened the call for the Metropolitan Fund of Culture, the Arts and Sciences, from the Impulso Cultural platform. With a budget of $36.500.000, more flexible conditions and administrative deadlines, will respond to the priorities and needs of the cultural sector in the current context.

The program, which can be accessed through the remote processing system, your call will be open until Wednesday 19 May at 17 hours.

"After much effort from the sector, that was responsibly prepared to reopen, we want to support everyone who was working on the development of a new project. At this time, we need culture and culture needs us. Because, This year's call is to make cultural initiatives a reality in which progress was being made in this context, so they can reach people in the short term ", said the Minister of Culture of the City Enrique Avogadro. Likewise, projection: "There are thousands and thousands of artists in the city who spent months trying to adapt to the new reality and we want to accompany them at this time".

The Metropolitan Fund of Culture, Arts and Sciences will open with three lines which will be adapted to the current health situation: support for the operation of Cultural Spaces, creators, and Education and Training.

In 2020, through this regimen, 140 Cultural spaces of the City received financial support through the Functioning of Cultural Spaces line, to readapt its spaces to the situation, pay for services and do maintenance. Y 239 independent workers of the City's culture, through the Creation and Training lines, were able to carry out their cultural and training projects, O well, train.

"Throughout 2020 We accompany the cultural sector with the Economic Aid Plan that involved an extraordinary fund of around the 40%. At the same time, we generate different support tools for the sector in emergencies. This year we will continue working in that line because we are convinced that culture plays a fundamental role in social reconstruction and is safe. And for that, it is a priority to continue accompanying her ", Avogadro expressed.