Cultural Development

Culture and Health

Developing access to culture in hospitals

For more than 20 years, the Ministry of Solidarity and Health and the Ministry of Culture have been implementing a common policy of access to culture in hospitals. With a total budget of €4 million, the “Culture Santé” scheme finances 600 projects per year. Hospitalized persons, elderly people, families, health and medico-social professionals, etc. the whole health community is concerned, but also all types of cultural facilities, all artistic disciplines, all types of hospitals and all audiences (children, adults, the elderly).

Culture and Justice

Inscribe the prison in the City

Access to culture for those under the control of justice is a right in the same way as education or health. In partnership with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Culture implements cultural projects in prison, ensuring their quality and promotion in order to register the prison in the city. This policy also includes the training of prison staff on cultural issues and the sensitization of cultural actors to the specificities of the prison environment. Finally, in the field of the offer of work in prison, it encourages the development of technical activities related to cultural professions.

Culture and solidarity

Promote access to artistic and cultural works and practices for as many people as possible

As carriers of values essential to democracy, such as freedom of creation and freedom of expression, and fervent defenders of cultural diversity, national solidarity associations also play a role as smugglers of these values, especially among the younger generations. With them, the Ministry of Culture develops artistic and cultural practice, the sharing of cultures and the collection of memories in order to strengthen personal and collective identities and to work for citizenship. This policy is carried out by supporting artists and creation through residencies, workshops, and by disseminating their works to a wide audience.

Living Together Mission

Relaying Culture to unfamiliar audiences of cultural institutions

Since 2004, some 30 cultural institutions have cooperated to meet audiences far from cultural institutions and thus fight against discrimination in the field of culture. To reach vulnerable audiences, the institutions of the "Living Together" mission have chosen to work with those who can play a relay role: volunteers, social workers, educators, facilitators, trainers… Thanks to the pooling of resources, the members of this network offer free discovery, awareness-raising, training, adapted mediations, preparation documents, visit assistance and tariff adjustments.

Culture & politics of the city

Supporting Culture in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods

To reintegrate deprived areas into urban dynamics, the Ministry of Culture conducts cultural development actions in the field of City policy. The objective: to support artistic education and cultural mediation projects for people who, because of their social position and their place of life, find it difficult to access cultural goods and services, to help them to positively represent their living environment and to integrate into a common world.