Políticas de gestão de equipamentos culturais públicosda Cidade de Salvador -BA: a perspectiva dos gestores

Abstract

This essay, which has been structured in three chapters, is meant to analyze key policies and management of public cultural facilities in the city of Salvador-BA from managers' and former managers' perspective on these facilities. The first chapter deals with the different concepts and awareness of the term culture and its dimensions, as well as culture policies within feder-al, state and municipal levels. The second chapter deals not only with the universe of cultural management and cultural facilities, presenting its characteristics, purposes and relations with cities, but also with the main challenges in the management of public cultural facilities. The third one aims to the research’s central object: An analysis on cultural policies and the man-agement of public cultural facilities, based on the testimonial of managers and former manag-ers of eight facilities in Salvador. This research concludes among others that public cultural facilities require paramount and indispensable greater investment both financially and in kind; Planning, communication and public relationship improvement; Further repositioning of public culture policies in the discussion table, enhancing the transformation these facilities are able to perform within communities where they are part of.