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Seven national arts councils will be responsible for distributing national grants, subsidies and awards in 2015-16 in FInland. Each national arts council will have 9 to 12 members.

The Central Arts Council of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland has appointed 74 art experts for the seven national arts councils. In addition, 27 members have been appointed for the 14 subcommittees responsible for preparing peer reviews within each field of the arts, while 112 members have been appointed for the 13 regional arts councils.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland and its expert body, the Central Arts Council, will award a special grant for planning and implementing a campaign that enhances the visibility, appreciation and role of art in society. The campaign is to be realised using social media and possibly other media channels, and it must be carried out by means of art.

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Grants are the most importance source of income for nearly one in ten Finnish artists. The role and importance of the State in awarding grants is on the decline, whereas private foundations and funds are becoming more important. The amount of State support has not increased in step with the growing size of the artist community.

The application period for the new subsidies for promoting multiculturalism and combating racism is in January.

Taike's Municipal Cooperation team assists municipalities in fulfilling their legal obligations for promoting the arts and culture.

The seminar presents the cases of The City Ghettos of Today, an artist-run interdisciplinary project in seven European cities. All the people interested in the themes of cultural diversity, community art, European collaboration through arts and interdisciplinary work between researchers and artists are welcome.

As of 2015 the Arts Promotion Centre Finland will no longer award separate grants and subsidies for international projects promoting cultural cooperation, exports and exchanges. Instead, these funds shall be included in grants and subsidies for travel and residencies.

The City Ghettos of Today is a unique artistic initiative exploring the concept of ‘ghetto’ in 7 European cities. The activities of the project will take place in Helsinki between 8.9. and 20.9. These include a transforming installation that will form its contents in multidisciplinary workshops collaboratively with an international team of artists and local participants, a seminar that presents the cases of the project in the different cities, a series of workshops and public interview-discussions and two public performances related to the collectively built installation.

The Central Arts Council has awarded 40,000 euros to a campaign to increase the visibility of art. The non-profit literature organisation Nuoren Voiman Liitto (NVL) has been selected to implement the campaign using social media.