New report about response and experience of Latvia's arts and cultural organisations in pandemic restrictions
The Latvian Academy of Culture has prepared a report on the experience of Latvian cultural institutions to make culture available during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The report illuminates the experience stories of 25 Latvia’s arts and cultural organisations, detailing their most effective solutions and takeaways from successes and failures along with some personal impressions from working in remote-access conditions. Narrators represent all fields of culture and art activities (heritage, arts, music, film, theatre etc.), both the public sector and NGOs.The main question, how to keep one’s audience, has inspired cultural organisations to look for new ways of interaction across two main directions: creating the digital cultural offer and bringing the cultural content out into the city or other outdoor spaces in new and unorthodox formats. The task hasn’t been easy, but it’s given arts and cultural organisations new experiences beyond their usual environment, way out of their comfort zone. This, in turn, has opened up opportunities for innovation and outreach to attract new audiences, as the cases in this report clearly indicate.
The report was funded by the Ministry of Culture, Republic of Latvia, project “Cultural Capital as a Resource for Sustainable Development of Latvia”, project No. VPP-KM-LKRVA-2020/1-0003 and the State Culture Capital Foundation programme “KultūrElpa”.
Report (download here)