A community of passionate people who invest in the future of Belarus
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This is a community of passionate people who invest in the future of Belarus. The members of the Club re-establish an institution of patronage of arts, which has existed for centuries in the Belarusian territories, at a new level. They continue the work of their outstanding predecessors and thus contribute to the inclusion of our country in the international context, from a positive image of Belarusian culture and independent democratic Belarus as a whole. They contribute to the development of prominent initiatives in the sphere of culture, institutions of management and support of culture, promote the education of managers in the sphere and the development of cultural industry, and thus take part in the formation of the ecosystem of Belarusian culture and thus strengthen the foundation of independent Belarus.
The Club's mission is to enrich the Belarusian cultural field.
Culture is the meaning of our existence, our DNA, which helps us survive as a nation, determines our behavior, our relations with each other and with the rest of the world. And it is precisely because of the underestimation of the importance and role of culture that Belarus turned into an agrarian dictatorship with all the consequences we see now.
Read more in the manifesto "More than Culture".
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Transparency of the work of the Belarusian Patrons Club is ensured by the Belarusian Council for Culture, registered in the EU (in Estonia under the name MTÜ Valgevene Kultuuri Associatsioon) as a non-profit organization with charitable status. The organization has experience in cooperation with foreign foundations, institutions, and philanthropists. It is also the initiator and co-implementer (together with the Danish Cultural Institute) of the ArtPower project in support of Belarusian culture (budget €2 million for 2023-2025), one of the applicants and implementers of the Octopus project in support of Belarusian-oriented education of children (budget €1 million for 2022-2024).
A partner of the Belarusian Patrons Club is the Belarusian Kreceuski Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization founded in 1959 by Belarusian emigrants in New York to support cultural, scientific, and publishing initiatives of Belarusians, which it has been doing for 65 years of its history.
