DGArts: Contests of the Sustained Support Programme open on Monday

Com a global amount of 72,840.000 euros, the contests will cover the areas of Visual Arts, Discipline Crossing, Circus, Street Arts and Digital Arts, Dance, Music and Opera, Theatre and Programming.

In a statement, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport confirms the opening of the competitions on Monday, as had been advanced by DGArtes on August 14.

These are the first competitions in the context of the review of the regime for the allocation of state financial support in the culture sector and the new regulation of the Support Programs for the Arts, which entered into force on August 13, after the publication in Diário da República.

Under these competitions, the Visual Arts will have a global financial amount of €7.74 million, of which €4.14 million will be for the biennial modality, with projects to be carried out in 2027 and 2028, and 3.6 million for the four-year modality, for projects to be carried out from 2027 to 2030.

In the area of Discipline Crossing, Circus, Street Arts and Digital Arts, there will be a global amount of 8.94 million euros, to be available as follows: in the biennial modality, 2.94 million for Discipline Crossing and Digital Arts, 960 thousand euros for Street Arts and another 960 thousand for Circus; in the quadriennial modality, for the areas of Discipline Crossing, Circus, Street Arts and Digital Arts, there will be a total of 4.08 million euros.

The competition in the area of Dance will have a total of 6.66 million euros, with 3.54 million for the biennial modality and 3.12 million for the four-year contests.

In the areas of Music and Opera, there is a total of 10.92 million euros, with the biennial modality to gather 4.44 million for Music projects and 1.44 million for Opera. The four-year modality reserves 5.04 million for Music and Opera.

The Theatre, with a global amount available of EUR 20.58 million, has 11.1 million for the biennial modality, and 9.48 million for the four-year modality.

Finally, in the field of Programming, there are 18 million euros for projects under the Performing Arts (circus, dance, music, opera and theater), Street Arts, Digital Arts and Discipline Crossing, being 9.72 million for the biennial modality and 8.28 million for the quadriennial.

Cited in a statement, the Minister for Culture, Youth and Sport stresses that the objective of the revision of the arts support regime is better the conditions for artists and artistic structures, reinforcing the stability, transparency and effectiveness of support.

“The new regime guarantees more confidence, predictability and sustainability, while responding to old demands from the sector,” says Margarida Balseiro Lopes.

The diploma extends the domain of the artistic areas in which the entities supported exercise activities, combining comic books, traditional arts and crafts and digital arts to the list that already included architecture, plastic arts, design, photography, new media, contemporary circus and street arts, dance, music and theater.

New creators and first works, External Cultural Action and the Portuguese Contemporary Art Network (RPAC) are also the target of new programs managed by DGArtes, joining existing programs for Supporting Projects and Partnership Support.

The new scheme also allows “the setting of global amounts available or a minimum number of support to be allocated per territorial area in order to promote a more balanced distribution of support and contribute to territorial cohesion”.