Youth Parliament Resolution - "Empowering Vranje's city through culture"

The following 4 posts are the resolutions that the young participants from Vranje's Youth Parliament project, developed inside 4 different Committees with 4 different topics (read the post "summary of Vranje's Youth Parliament - under label "Projects") and adopted in the General Assembly by simple majority of votes.

Topic - "Empowering Vranje's city through culture"

The Youth Parliament in Vranje,

Ever since 1878 when the city of Vranje was liberated from the Turkish ruling, not much attention was paid to the development of the culture. Now, it’s time for something to be done in order to make a change.

Ÿ  Aware that the development of culture is not one of the main priorities of the local government(not being fully aware of the importance of culture, a very small amount of money is invested in this area and it’s not properly divided).

Ÿ  Observing that the majority of the citizens of Vranje does not recognize the great significance of the continuous cultural improvement.

Ÿ   Alarmed by the fact that he lack of cultural and artistic spaces in Vranje do not allow talented young people to express their imagination and creativity without any judgement.

Ÿ  Worried about the fact that cultural institutions, historical and archaeological sights have very small number of visitors due to a very bad advertisement. As a result of this situation they are not able to improve their offer.

Ÿ  Deeply regretting that the local media do not seem to give enough space to cultural events which take place in our town. Because of that people are not enough informed.

A. Expresses its hope to increase awareness towards the government about importance of culture at local and national level.

B. Calls for education of young people about local history and culture.

C. Encouraging young people to express themselves.

D. Draw attention to activate young people as volunteers in cultural events and organisations. Affirming culture with young people by organising « week of culture », an event where amateur artists can show their creativity.

E. Requests greater involvement of media in organising and promoting cultural events.

1. Strongly condemns further desecration of cultural heritage.

2. Encourages people to show their talent without fear of judgement.

3. Express it’s hope to find places which are available for organising cultural events.

4. Calls for a more active promotion of culture events in the local media.

5. Recommends to organise lectures on culture and history of Vranje in the local schools.