– Division of Tradition and Tourism – Abu Dhabi proclaims 23-25 October as new date for fiveth version of Tradition Summit Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI, UAE, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Division of Tradition and Tourism – Abu Dhabi and the UNESCO launched immediately the co-publication Tradition in Occasions of COVID-19: Resilience, Restoration and Revival, giving a world overview of the affect of the pandemic on the tradition sector since March 2020, and outlining instructions for its revival.
Through the launch it was additionally introduced that the 5th version of Tradition Summit Abu Dhabi will happen this yr on October 23-25.
Inspecting the affect of COVID-19 throughout all cultural domains, the report highlights that tradition was one of the crucial severely impacted sectors globally, with greater than 10 million jobs misplaced in 2020 alone and a 20-40% drop in revenues throughout the sector. The sector additionally noticed a decline of 25% of its Gross Worth Added (GVA) in 2020. Nevertheless, whereas many of the sector suffered a pointy decline, on-line publishing and audiovisual platforms skilled progress as a consequence of elevated reliance on digital content material through the pandemic. The publication additionally identifies main international traits reshaping the tradition sector and proposes new built-in coverage instructions and methods to assist the sector’s revival and sustainability.
“We now have recognized main reforms presently rising world wide in response to the worldwide disaster. It’s important to recognise the potential of the tradition sector to gas societal transformation and restoration throughout all growth targets and assist built-in approaches to revive the tradition sector,” stated Ernesto Ottone R., UNESCO Assistant Director-Normal for Tradition.
“Whereas the report highlights the repercussions of the pandemic on the tradition sectors globally, we’re optimistic about how we, as a world cultural neighborhood, can transfer ahead. Extra considerably than the findings themselves is what the report proposes by way of instructions and methods that may higher form the sector right into a resilient and sustainable one for generations to return,” stated HE Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of DCT Abu Dhabi. “Our partnership with UNESCO and Abu Dhabi’s position in producing the report cements our dedication to generate options and insurance policies that may strengthen the tradition sector within the UAE and world wide.”
Shifts within the cultural worth chain
Utilizing information from greater than 100 trade studies, 40 professional interviews, and financial analyses, the publication underscores the necessity for an built-in strategy to the restoration of the tradition sector and requires a re-framing of the worth of and assist for tradition, as a crucial basis for a extra numerous and sustainable society.
The report additionally highlights broader shifts in cultural manufacturing and dissemination, notably because of the accelerated digitisation of cultural merchandise through the pandemic. Revenues from the digital artistic financial system totalled US $2.7 billion globally in 2020, over 1 / 4 of the sector’s total income.
A menace to cultural range and the variety of cultural expression
The pandemic has confirmed a menace to cultural range. The elevated precariousness of the livelihoods of freelancers and cultural staff, mixed with the exacerbation of already deep-rooted inequities by way of gender and deprived teams in society, have brought about many artists and tradition professionals to go away the sphere, undermining the variety of cultural expressions. As an illustration, in Latin America, 64% of freelancers within the tradition sector misplaced greater than 80% of their earnings because of COVID-19.
Redefining the tradition sector’s place on the general public agenda
The tip of the pandemic presents a major alternative to reposition tradition on the general public agenda and improve its worth as a world public good, says the report. It notes that the pandemic resulted in an enhanced recognition of the tradition sector’s social worth and contribution to collective and particular person wellbeing, in addition to to sustainable growth. Certainly, in 2020, tradition was included for the primary time within the coverage discussions of the G20 and the report argues that it’s important to grasp the worldwide momentum.
The report comes a yr after UNESCO and DCT introduced their work on the worldwide research. They each explored how the tradition sector isn’t merely recovered however reworked, drawing on classes learnt through the pandemic. The publication launch and occasion additionally contributed to the preparation of the UNESCO World Convention on Cultural Insurance policies and Sustainable Improvement – MONDIACULT 2022, which is able to happen in Mexico in late September 2022.
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