Government has completed work on the Creative Arts Bill for passage into law, President Akufo-Addo has said.

President Akufo-Addo while addressing Parliament during the third State of the Nation address said the passage of the Bill will lead to the establishment of the Creative Arts Fund.

“We have worked to finalise the Creative Arts Bill, leading to the setting up of the Creative Arts Fund. For the first time, in 2018, Government provided support to the Creative Arts Council, and the Creative Arts Masterclass, to build capacity of Creative Arts practitioners, has also commenced,” he noted.

The Creative Arts Bill, when passed into law, will also serve as a legal instrument that will help in coordinating and regulating all the sects of the creative arts.

In the 2016 Manifesto of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the party promised to establish a fund that would provide financial assistance to creative artists.

President Nana Akufo-Addo also disclosed that plans are far advanced for the construction of a theatre for the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi while a theatre for Eastern region is almost completed.

The construction of these theatres, he noted, is part of several initiatives by the government to give the country’s creative arts sector a facelift.

“We are continuing with initiatives to improve the creative arts sector. We’ve also worked to finalise the Creative Arts Bill leading to the setting up of the Creative Arts Fund,” the president said.