Konsten att sprida kultur - En studie av subventionssystemet för scenkonst i Skåne

This paper is about the subsidy system for performing arts and how this system is used as a tool for cultural policy. This seems to be an area in cultural policy that has been overlooked in earlier studies. The subsidy system for performing arts is a question about democracy, and therefore also a question about who has the rights to experiance performing arts. Looking closer at the system and the cultural agenda for Region Skåne it is clear that there is nothing wrong with the ambition to provide every small community with the tools to offer the citizens the opportunity to experience performing arts. The problem is that, even though the ideals that we can see in the cultural plans are good, the system as it exists today is perceived unfair for the different assocition for theater. This paper brings this subject up to the surface, mostly because it is important to show how the subcidy systems for performing arts can provide something extra to the small communitys in Scania that woulden’t be possible without this kind of system