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The study maps and analyses the role of cultural foundations in the financing of Finnish arts and culture. While the main focus is on the years 1993 and 1997, the results are also compared to the previous study from 1987.

This study contains the results of the survey carried out between April and June 1997. The study dealt with the significance of grant income for artists and their working conditions. In

Survey of the members of artists' organizations in the fields of design and comics.

The results of this survey reflect the type of support and the extent to which the same companies have supported the arts and heritage during the past twelve years.

This is a third part in festival audience ”trilogy” research series covering various types of major Finnish festivals. While the first two reports dealt with events that represent only one particular art form, i.e., music, theatre or dance, in this third report attention is drawn to festivals that host a selection of art forms simultaneously and are therefore described as general festivals. The festivals studied here are the Helsinki Festival and the Joensuu Festival.

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The main question of the study is: what happens to artists’ occu - pational practices and ideologies in the overall context of post-indus- trial society, and in the special case of a rapidly internationalising art scene. The assumption is that these two processes combined will cause major transformations in the Finnish corps of artists, both at the individual and collective levels.

This report focuses the formulation of the concept of children’s culture, Finnish cultural policies related to it, and the objectives of government support for children’s culture.

The purpose of this study is to examine the development of state support for artists in Finland. The study period begins in the late 1960s when the Promotion of the Arts Act and the Artists’ Grant Act were adopted, and continues up to the present.

The purpose of this study is to explicate the actual interpretation to be given to the provision in the Finnish constitution stating: ”The freedom of art is guaranteed ” (article 16.3).

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