The portal seeks to give visibility to the news of the Council as well as other agencies in the country.
From today, the news from various areas of art and culture, in all regions and communities will have a centralised portal. The culture news portal CULT (www.portaldeculto.cl)has just been launched by the Council of Culture. The portal will offer news of the Council as well as from other institutions and cultural groups around the country, making visible the initiatives from municipalities, community centers, cultural managers, among others.
The Minister of Culture, Claudia Barattini, said "we said from the beginning: culture is a right for everyone, and this also implies a democratic and widespread access to cultural information. With this platform we want to contribute to thatgoal, providing a space to all institutions and cultural groups in the country, so they can disseminate and make visible their work. "
The Minister called both cultural organizations and citizens to visit www.portaldeculto.cl, "to know what is happening in cultural and artistic matters in the 15 regions, and to see what we organize as the Culture Council but also to see the work of different entities that are joining this great project."
Meanwhile, the President of the Association of Journalists, Javiera Olivares, welcomed the initiative of CNCA, for "satisfying the need that we as communicators have raised, and what the country has required,"
She said that "today we have a space that celebrates plurality and allows to make visible cultural spaces - citizen participation, contributes to this a lot. Therefore, we continue to work together in findisng spacse for debate in our country ".
In addition to the information content, the site features columns of opinion leaders in the field of art and culture, and open channelsfor citizen participation and debate in this area.