Thursday, Dithny Joan Raton, the Minister of Culture, in the presence of its Director General, Jean Michel Lapin, had an important working meeting with his cabinet and the various Technical Directorates to present the balance sheet of the activities and projects carried out by the institution since January 2015.

The system of social protection of artists https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-15937-icihaiti-culture-towards-a-social-protection-of-artists.html , the

strengthening institutional capacity, the creation of a network of cultural development agents in municipalities, he creation of clusters of Culture, the establishment of a support fund for the cultural sector, the implementation of the Heritage Preservation Project and Support to Cultural Industry and Tourism (PAST) https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-14134-icihaiti-culture-evaluation-of-the-cultural-heritage-preservation-project.html , among others are the main points that were discussed during the working session.

For their part, technicians have respectively presented the report of their activities in 2015. The different topics reviewed at this workshop were: Governance and International Cooperation; Heritage and Planning; Art of the stage and the Communication and Events.

"Culture must be the concern of all in living together for the benefit of communities," said on this occasion the Minister of Culture.

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