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Cultural Unit
“The Saami Council works to strengthen the Sámi arts and culture field as one united field, and will actively contribute to the development and promotion of cross-border Sámi cultural policy.”
The Cultural Unit is promoting a crossborder saami policy within the cultural field and supports both traditional and modern saami culture.
The Saami Council handles an annual cultural fund for the support of Saami cultural activities. The cultural committee handles the cultural fund. The fund provides, amongst other, grants to literature, project grants, grants for study trips and working grants. The Saami Council especially supports projects with an all-Saami perspective.
The Head of the Cultural Unit is Christina Hætta.
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The Cultural committee of the Saami Council
The Cultural committee is Saami Council's body of cooperation with Saami art and cultural organizations, such as Saami handicraft, literature, film and music organizations.
The Cultural committee has five members. Four of them represent the Saami art and cultural organizations and the fifth member represents the Saami Council. The members and alternate members of the committee are appointed for a term of two years at a time.
The Cultural committee also handles Saami Council's cultural grants, which are aimed to benefit the cultural life of the Saami. The Cultural committee and the Saami Council cooperate to improve Saami culture with a wide definition of culture.
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Saami cultural organizations
The art and cultural organizations nominate representatives to be members of the Cultural committee. The organizations represented in the committee circulate over time so that all art and cultural organizations are represented as widely as possible in the committee.
Appointment of Cultural committee members is circulated between the following organizations:
Art and cultural organizations
Saami non-fiction writers and translators association (SFS)
Youth organizations
Saami handicraft (duodji) organizations
Čepes Sam
Landsorganisasjonen Sámiid Duodji
Duojáriid ealáhussearvi