Cross-border survey will provide information on how Culture-Sápmi is coping during the corona crisis
The Saami Council, the Sami Parliament of Norway, the Sámi Artist Council and International Sami Film Institute invites the Sámi art and culture field to contribute knowledge on how the corona situation affects them in a study which covers the entire Sámi art and culture field in Finland, Sweden, Russia and Norway.
– Culture-Sápmi, like the rest of the culture world, is badly affected by the corona pandemic. At the same time, we find that the various compensastino schemes and corona measures designed for the culture field don’t meet the Sámi cultural workers adequately enough because they work cross-border.
The head of the Saami Council's culture unit, Christina Hætta, says they fear that the dramatic closure, the closing of the national borders and the various corona crisis measures could result in irreversible damage to the field.
– We know nothing about how long the pandemic will last and how it will affect the Sámi culture field. It is important for us to communicate with the field and find out how the corona situation affects the individual practitioners and the Sámi cultural institutions so that we can organize the cultural policy instruments accordingly.
The Saami Council, the Sami Parliament of Norway, the Sámi Artist Council and International Sami Film Institute hope that as many as possible take part in the survey that opens today and lasts until August 17th.
– The survey takes about 5-10 minutes and we hope many people will take the time to tell us how the corona situation is affecting them and ppropose measures that can support them in this challenging time, Hætta finishes.
