NRW KULTURsekretariat
The NRW KULTURsekretariat (North Rhine-Westphalian Office of Culture / NRWKS) is a cultural funding initiative of the 20 theatre- and orchestra- supporting cities in NRW and the LVR Rhineland. Together with the cities and municipal, supra-regional and international cultural partners, it initiates, promotes and organises programmes, projects and events in the fields of theatre, music, visual arts, literature and dance financed by state funds – often in an interdisciplinary and experimental way. The focus is on international and digital culture as well as on the topics of diversity and interculture. The NRWKS connects actors and multipliers from all cultural fields, provides impulses in cultural policy discourses and is also involved in the initiative “DIE VIELEN“. In close cooperation with the NRW Ministry of Culture, it manages the “International Visitors Program” and, since the end of 2018, the profile funding programme “New Paths” for municipal theaters and orchestras in NRW. In addition, the NRWKS receives annual special funding from the state for the “New Music Theater Fund“.
