Juca Ferreira, Minister of Culture, will appoint the actor Sérgio Mamberti as President of Brazil’s National Foundation for Arts (Funarte), on Monday November 17th.
The Ceremony will take place at 3pm, at the Auditorium Gilberto Freyre of Palácio Gustavo Capanema, at Rio de Janeiro (Rua da Imprensa, nº 16, Downtown). On this occasion, the actions and guidelines orienting the public policies of Funarte for the next two years will be presented.
The presence of Mamberti as head of the institution represents the current interest in restructuring Funarte with the objective of consolidating its field of action in the national territory, reaffirm its relevance in the Brazilian artistic field and to strengthen its staff.
For the Ministry, Funarte is strategic in the formulation, implementation and development of public policies for music, performing arts and visual arts, through programs and projects directed to support and encourage artistic production in different fields.
Sérgio Mamberti
Well known defender of national culture, with an outstanding performance in the artistic and political fields, Mamberti was called in 2003 by the former Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, to make up the directive board of the Ministry, as head of the Secretariat for Performing Arts.
In 2004, he directed the Secretariat for Identity and Cultural Diversity, created to promote dialogue and debate with the representative sectors of the country of this area, with the objective of creating inclusive public policies for popular cultures, indigenous people and sexual diversity, among others.