Ministers and culture representatives from Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela will meet at the ‘First International Meeting of Andean Cultures’, which will take place in Pasto, Nariño.
Friday, August 21, Paula Marcela Moreno, Colombia’s Minister of Culture will visit the department of Nariño to take part as a speaker in the first International Meeting of Andean and Pacific Cultures’, which will continue until August 30.
The Minister will take part at 9:30 a.m., at Pasto’s Chamber of Commerce, to present the ‘First Compendium of Colombian Cultural Policies’, a document that will set this sector’s future and that will serve as foundation for the new Ten-year Plan for Culture 2010-2019.
The Compendium is divided in three parts. The first, entitled ‘Contexts’, presents and analyses the historic evolution of cultural policies in Colombia and the challenges that they face currently. The second one, ‘Policies’, organizes cultural policy documents in six thematic areas. The third part, ‘Interpretations’, presents the points of view of culture analysts. The Compendium can be found here: http://www.mincultura.gov.co/index.php?idcategoria=1824
This will be the Minister’s contribution to the discussion about the role that cultural institutions have as producers of public policies and will analyse the different administrative models that other Latin American countries implement to formulate and follow up their cultural programs.
Moreno will also present the scope of the Ibero-American Cultural Charter and its contribution to the construction of a common cultural cooperation agenda.
The following paragraphs are part of her intervention:
“A great deal of our current cultural policies is committed to the internationalisation of Colombian culture and also to the growth of the cultural economy, to creating an industry and to support the growth of new artistic practices.”
“Every cultural policy leaves a legacy capable of transforming society. The ‘First Colombian Compendium of Cultural Policy’ collects the policies produced by the Ministry of Culture during the past 11 years, and will be, without a doubt, a document that will allow the administrative guidelines that the country needs in the cultural field to be set. The Compendium has also been conceived so that it becomes a tool for public debate; this makes it a tool kit that will allow for the creation of solid foundations for the cultural sector”.