"Remain visible and audible during the crisis"
Support for artists and cultural professionals in Chemnitz - application now possible.
The city of Chemnitz has launched a special municipal programme "Staying visible and audible during the crisis" (Soforthilfe Kultur.Sichtbar). This programme includes support for artists and cultural professionals in Chemnitz to enable them to remain visible and audible at a regional and municipal level despite the current restrictions, to be culturally/artistically effective and thus not to disappear from the "cultural scene".
This special municipal programme is part of the package of measures adopted yesterday by the City Council to mitigate the consequences of the pandemic in the areas of social affairs, culture and sport (B-116/2020). A total of 250,000 euros will be made available for the Kultur.Sichtbar emergency aid programme.
The grant per measure can amount to a maximum of 1,000 euros. The funding can be used for marketing campaigns, digital offers or the use of online channels or for special artistic/cultural projects and ideas that can still be realised under the current restrictions.
Mayor of Culture Ralph Burghart: "I am very pleased that the city councillors paved the way for the support of artists and cultural workers in Chemnitz by approving the budget yesterday. The city and its inhabitants need cultural life, especially in these times full of restrictions - as far as this is possible. I am therefore looking forward to many creative and surprising ideas."
Applications for funding are made exclusively via an online application process. Using the city's own services as well as those of the municipal special-purpose association KISA, an online application assistant was developed based on the cross-administrative service portal Amt24. This enables cultural professionals affected by the coronavirus crisis to submit all the necessary information and evidence in a simple form online and at any time via www.chemnitz.de/KulturSichtbar. The documents are immediately and regularly retrieved by the Chemnitz cultural organisation for further processing.
Applications can be submitted immediately and on an ongoing basis, initially until 30 June 2020.
If the examination of the submitted documents shows that the applicant is eligible to apply and the application is eligible for funding, a decision on funding will be made promptly.
The measure is to be digitally documented as proof of the use of the funding. It is planned to publish documentary material on the website of the City of Chemnitz.
Queries from artists can be sent to kultur.sichtbar(at)stadt-chemnitz.de or by telephone on 0371 488-4121.