Cultural message under the microscope

The canton of Uri is skeptical with regard to the claim that the cultural message "in principle has no financial or personnel impact on the cantons and municipalities". It should be borne in mind that programs are to be initiated for which no financial framework has been defined and which for this reason "have a foreseeable financial impact on the cantons and cities". As an example, he mentions artist fees as well as start-up funding for the promotion of talented musicians.

The financing of the start-up projects of the previous cultural message and the new pilot projects of the Confederation are limited in time, which means that the responsibility for their continuation is "implicitly transferred to other bodies and thus to the cantons and municipalities".

In the area of folk culture, the cultural message refrains from "developing new ideas or increasing funding", the canton of Uri continues. The canton itself is heavily involved in researching, collecting and developing folk culture, for example with the House of Folk Music in Altdorf, the Alpentöne Festival and the Folk Music Festival.

In its cultural message, however, the federal government continues to ignore "the fundamental value of living folk culture for cultural participation and cultural life in Switzerland".

The entire statement:
https://www.ur.ch/_docn/187972/Vernehmlassungsantwort.pdf