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| TMSA's Scottish Traditional Arts Declaration | 1049 Signatures |
Published by TMSA on Aug 14, 2008
Category: Music
Region: Scotland
Target: Scottish Government & Parliament and all bodies sponsored and/or funded by them
Web site: http://www.tmsa.org.uk
Petition text:
We, the undersigned, maintain that:-
We therefore call on the Scottish Government and Parliament and all bodies sponsored and/or funded by them to ensure that:-
- - Scotland has one of the richest living traditions in Europe;
- the traditional arts of making music, singing, dancing, poetry and storytelling are an intrinsic and vital part of Scottish culture;
- all of Scotland’s indigenous languages and traditions are of equal importance and value;
- Scotland’s traditional arts and languages make an irreplaceable and distinctive contribution to world culture;
- the foundation of all traditional arts is the grassroots inclusive participation of the people of Scotland;
- the traditional arts give a unique perspective on Scotland’s political and social history;
- the traditional arts bind together communities in Scotland and the Scots Diaspora;
- Scotland’s traditional culture can and should be reinterpreted by each generation but that this must not result in discarding the past.
- Scotland’s cultural traditions can and should play a part in the economic and social regeneration of Scotland.
We therefore call on the Scottish Government and Parliament and all bodies sponsored and/or funded by them to ensure that:-
- - all the indigenous languages and traditions of Scotland are treated equally;
- funding for traditional arts is enshrined in all government arts policies;
- traditional arts are embedded in Scottish education at all levels;
- opportunities for taking part in traditional arts are actively encouraged;
- provision of spaces for traditional arts is supported;
- initiatives to make our traditional forms of expression accessible to all are supported;
- in the drive to make commercial use of the traditional arts, the traditions themselves are not distorted or lost;
- all of the traditions - not only the more commercial aspects - are valued and maintained;
- recognition is given to the irreplaceable contribution that volunteers supporting traditional arts in Scotland make to the economy.
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