The Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes) will support 42 pieces of equipment from the Rede Teatros e Cineteatros Portugueses (RTCP) with 23.2 million euros, between 2026 and 2029, in the third edition of the competition to support the programming of those spaces, it was announced yesterday.
Of the 42 pieces of equipment supported in the third programming support competition, which were informed yesterday of the draft decision, 35 had already received support in the first edition of the competition, to which seven new pieces of equipment are now added, according to DGArtes.
The Center is the region of the country that concentrates the largest number of “proposed support reinforcements” (15), followed by the North region (11), the West and Tagus Valley (5), the Setúbal Peninsula (4), the Algarve (3), the Alentejo (2), Greater Lisbon (1) and the Autonomous Region of Madeira (1).
“At this stage of presentation of the draft decision by the competition jury, announced today [ontem]a hearing of interested parties follows, after which the assessment committee will publish the results”, reads the DGArtes statement.
The judging committee for the third support competition recorded, “based on comparative analysis with previous cycles, a trend towards qualitative improvement in the applications presented, verifying a sustained evolution over the four years of implementation of support for programming within the scope of RTCP”.
DGArtes recalls that “there is also support for 18 pieces of equipment, relating to the second edition of the competition”. In the second edition, with an available value of ten million euros, only equipment from outside the municipalities of Lisbon and Porto and that had not been supported for the 2022-2025 cycle could register.
In the first edition of the competition, 38 pieces of equipment received support for programming between 2022 and 2025, totaling R$24 million. Initially there were 39, but Guarda City Hall ended up rejecting, at the end of 2022, support for the Municipal Theater.
RTCP was created in 2019 to combat regional asymmetries in access to culture and currently has 103 cultural facilities. DN/Lusa
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