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C hen street culture wins
people fills the streets of the city of San Juan |
The people of San Juan known the rapid pace of large urban concentrations. The streets draw straight lines, diagonals and roundabouts that border parks and plazas. Public buildings, a young architecture, burst onto the scene with the air everyday Renaissance. A unique idiosyncrasies, which mixes austerity, superb, grass and cement rendering a real cult revival as a result, perhaps, to suffer in the past the bloodiest environmental disaster in Argentina's history.
addition of memory and pain in the collective memory installed for that earthquake that the January 15, 1944 claimed almost 10,000 lives and destroyed much of its buildings, the locals still keep intact many of the provincial customs.
In the city of San Juan the time of the siesta is observed with the same righteousness with which a Muslim saying his prayers. After midday, when the hot, dry air power zonda sunlight, the shades of the houses and shops remain closed until the heat relents and returns the time to revisit the place of usual activities. But between 15 and 19 September the quiet was interrupted when it became the headquarters of the Third Argentine Congress of Culture.
More than six thousand people from all over the country attended the event and turned the streets of Cuyo in open mazes, where the debate and concerns struggling to find positive outlets. Under the slogan "For a federal culture on the road to Latin American integration, intellectuals, youth, representatives of indigenous peoples organizations, artists, and public presentations and speeches analyzed developed according to the demands of a constantly changing society based on diversity, plurality of language, new technologies, respect and equity. Another premise of the meeting was "historically differentiated linking concepts together, as they are civilization-barbarism or progress, backwardness. "
discussion forums, conferences, lectures, workshops, group participation for children and adults and the papers took a starring role. In the squares and streets of San Juan various samples discussed interdisciplinary art, history, human rights and political cartoons, among other topics. Thus, "Chronicle of Latin American Nation" outlined the process that worked for the emancipation of the continent, "200 Years of History", curated by Felipe Pigna, offered documentary material from 1810 to the present and "Approaching the bicentennial .. . they want to tell "was a striking placing banners that included 50 armed by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo-Founding Line with letters, pictures and memories realized aspects of the lives of the detained and disappeared during the military dictatorship. There were marathon sessions with numerous recreational activities, circus, street theater, mobile libraries and music shows, daily and continuously from 9 until 2 am.
"One of the most beautiful things to see was that Congress took to the streets," said Secretary of State for Culture, Jorge Coscia. Indeed the debate has been further strengthened in the tables of coffee, plazas, sidewalks and fairs. The voices of ordinary citizens seemed more interested in participating in daily discussions on integration, the ability to generate new areas of production and encourage respect for regional diversity, rather than official reports take notice that the cultural industry reached during 2009, an increase of 7.9 percent, which resulted in a 3.5 share in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
A pure show
Another axis of the Congress was to strengthen federalism and promote the integration into the diversity of the Patria Grande. " The federal Fair, called the meeting and conducted Fair in the huge campus of the city, operated as a rallying point for closer ties between the provinces. In each of the stands, the regions displayed their crafts, models and brochures representative. The space belongs to the province of Santa Fe authors showed evidence of literature's most emblematic local and wherein the Complete Poetry of Aldo Oliva held in San Juan land, deserves a place of privilege. Within the property
also worked Popular Culture Fair and the Book, where there were conferences and book presentations and film, the stand of the Federal Investment Centre (IFC), which exhibited an impressive mural with the reproduction of art works federal award winners and the Tent of Culture and Wine, with the obligatory tasting and dining 24 seats in each province offered their traditional flavors. In the sector of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, a giant screen offered during the five-day congress numerous audiovisual productions. The complete tour of the facilities left in the visitors the feeling of shooting multiple journeys (and in one night) to all parts of the country.
Recuerdos de provincia
truncated pyramid, logo | Independence in 1816
Many of the themes developed by Sarmiento in his writings on civilization and barbarism, political tension, education or teaching were also discussed in Congress. But even more significant was that behind where the mirror is reborn today that blunt "white pyramid stands the opulent Civic Center building in the city of San Juan. The site is none other than the sun which he described himself in memories of the Province, as a bleak place that would occasionally cows shelter from the sun under shadows of the poplars. After almost two centuries, land called intellectuals, government officials and citizens to discuss the development, integration, cultural and political paradigm shifts.
"One of the postures that generates more dichotomies is to define cultural policies," said the artist Daniel Santoro - I have it clear what a cultural policy, nor I have made clear, finally, what is culture. It is always a topic of hot debate. Generally used as an anathema to discredit cultural management. What is said is that a government "lacks a cultural policy" and, unfortunately, is very difficult to trace the complaint because it is very difficult to define a cultural policy and it is here that there is an insoluble paradox. " To Coscia "paradigm changes go hand in hand with the model that the government poses as a country, but from any attempt to manage the not easy. "As an officer I express this duality-government resistance," he said. I am secretary of culture, but every day I wake up with an attitude of resisting the forces are always opposed to change traditional structures. "
Shortly before 12 on Sunday 19 September at the Auditorio Juan Victoria, Coscia formally closed the Congress and presented the findings that guaranteed by the authorities of the Culture of all the provinces, will rise to the Chamber of Deputies to the Legislative Council to formalize the establishment of the Federal Culture, together with the ratification of the "Ten-Point Strategy" the draft Federal Law on Culture. The days of extensive discussions ended, in the heat of the sun sanjuanino the public began to return to their homes with the hope that concrete is the most complex task: to translate theories into facts.