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Support for the Arts in Schools
Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Artistic
This most august World Assembly,
Believing that artistic self-expression carries intrinsic value, that all sentient beings possess creative potential, and that any instance of inaccessibility to the arts is a stifling of creativity and cultural growth,
Aware that such expression plays a crucial role in a well-rounded, holistic education, and that many artistic works now celebrated as cultural treasures are often the result of a distinct creative idea realised by a single individual,
Acknowledging this Assembly's prior resolutions concerning the arts which, though well-intentioned, fail to recognise the arts' nature as a discipline distinct from other pursuits in its indiscriminate demand for pure creativity,
Adamant that the passage of more in-depth international legislation with a focus uniquely on the artistic disciplines is warranted and indeed necessary for the protection of access to artistic expression and the cultivation of creativity in educational establishments,
Hereby,
- Defines, for the purposes of this resolution,
- “artistic expression” as all endeavours of primary intent to entertain an audience or promote philosophically introspective thought, each encompassing one or more of three broad fields: the literary arts, involving written creativity such as the composition of poetry or prose; the performing arts, involving the composition and performance of music and the performance of drama through acting and dramatic readings; and the visual arts, involving the composition of works appreciated through a visual medium, including but not limited to paintings, drawings, sculptures, and virtual design,
- “artistic resources” as all tangible or digital materials necessary for a type of artistic expression, including but not limited to stationery, musical instruments, theatrical property, and technology and software, as well as any funds designated for the acquisition of such materials, and
- an “educational establishment” as any public or private institution of principal purpose to act as the main source of education for enrolled primary, secondary, or tertiary students;
- Mandates that all educational establishments within member states provide enrolled students with access to at least one course per year focusing primarily on artistic expression, whether obligatory or elective;
- Establishes the World Assembly Fund for the Arts (WAFA) to serve as a central fund to which member states may apply to receive artistic resources on behalf of educational establishments within their borders;
- Establishes the International Database for Artistic Expression (IDEA) as a global database under the WAFA to which all works of artistic expression may be voluntarily submitted for recognition and cataloguing;
- Tasks the WAFA with
- the evaluation of applicant states’ needs for artistic resources and those resources’ subsequent allocation,
- the reception, storage, and distribution of such resources voluntarily donated to the WAFA by member states, and
- the management of the IDEA through the cataloguing of all submitted works of artistic expression and the provision of accessibility to the Database for all member nations;
- Prohibits the WAFA from disallowing any member state access to artistic resources when there is a sufficient available supply of such resources and a reasonable need for them in that state;
- Prohibits member states from disallowing educational establishments within their borders access to artistic resources that can be or have been provided by the WAFA;
- Encourages member states with a surplus of artistic resources to donate such resources to the WAFA in good faith;
- Clarifies that this resolution
- does not protect access to forms of artistic expression in member states in which such forms of expression are illegal under national or international law and
- does not protect access to or actively permit the provision of any artistic resource in member states in which the possession or usage of such a resource is illegal under national or international law.