The discovery of the galleon San Jose, strengthening industry film, safeguarding the cultural heritage and the commitment to a reader country were among the twelve achievements of the management of the Ministry of Culture this year. Get to know them.
? 1. The event’s underwater archeology in the history
For the pride of all Colombians on 7 December, the President of the Republic, Juan Manuel Santos, announced the discovery of the galleon San Jose, sunk ago 307 years off the Coast of the Colombian Caribbean. The project was conducted by a team led by ICANH. This is one of the most important events of underwater archeology in the history of mankind. This achievement was made under the Heritage Act Sunken, which was supported by the Ministry of Culture and approved by Congress in 2013. Its discovery was the result of an interdisciplinary scientific work of high-level rescue and conservation is the most important scientific project that has been conducted in the country’s history.
2. An unprecedented year for Colombian Film
Thanks to Law 814 of 2004, the Colombian cinema in 2015 reached a record high in its history with 36 national premieres. Registration of spectators increased from 43 million last year, 60 million visitors to the cinemas once completed 2015. Our film also won the most important international recognition in its history with the Golden Camera award for best opera premium at the Cannes Film Festival, the film ‘The land and shadow’ director Cesar Acevedo, plus three awards in the Critics’ Week at the prestigious event. This unprecedented achievement award for ‘The embrace of the snake’, directed by Ciro Guerra, in the Directors’ Fortnight, just joined Festival. The film subsequently received four awards at the Phoenix Awards Iberoamerican Film. These two films were supported by the Film Development Fund, CDF. Through Filmmaking Colombia Law, created in 2012 to encourage the making of films in Colombia and promote the hiring of Colombian companies cinematographic services, were approved in 2015 nine projects from countries like Spain, Argentina and the United States, with an investment over 43 billion pesos and a consideration of more than 14 billion pesos. Similarly, this year’s 33 was released, starring Antonio Banderas, the first film benefited from this law.
3. Visibility and recognition to our artists inside and outside the country
Colombia was the guest of honor at ARCO, one of the most important art fairs in the world, where he told a delegation of more than 250 artists, gallery owners, curators, editors, experts and representatives of art institutions, independent spaces and museums. Similarly, Mincultura inaugurated the work of the master Fernando Botero in Beijing and Shanghai, China, as part of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Colombia and the Asian nation. On the other hand, the work of the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, as well as being featured in ARCOmadrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago introduced this year, the first major retrospective to be held in the world on the artist, who in late 2015 He won the award of the Nasher Sculpture Center, created this year to recognize a current artist in the world of sculpture. Mincultura also made version 15 of the Regional Meeting of Artists. More than 285 artists from all regions of Colombia presented their art exhibitions in 64 showrooms in this event which decentralizes the arts and participation of the various actors in the arts sector in all regions of Colombia.
Four. Declarations to protect intangible cultural heritage
On December 1, in Namibia, the Intergovernmental Committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage of Unesco, announced the inclusion of traditional vallenato music of Magdalena Grande Cultural Heritage List Intangible in need of urgent safeguarding. The next day, Unesco approved the request that Ecuador would join Colombia’s declaration called “Marimba music and traditional songs of the South Pacific” inscription that our country had received since 2010. This year also Mincultura issued resolutions for Declarations on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of national (LRPCI) and approved its Special Safeguard Plan (PES), the silletera Manifestation of the territory of Saint Helena, in the municipalities of Medellin, Guarne, Envigado and Rionegro, Antioquia as well as ‘The Carnival of Barranquilla’, among others. Furthermore, the Ministry of Culture, on loan linked to the Workshop School Cartagena since 2012, an organization that is currently in front of the protection, conservation, maintenance, restoration, enhancement and dissemination of the fortifications and lace walled city of Cartagena de Indias, Bolivar.
5. More libraries and spaces for cultural and artistic expressions throughout the country
In 2015 the Ministry of Culture, he built and rehabilitated 25 libraries, and built six houses of culture, a cultural center, a dance hall , a music school and a theater. The Ministry of Culture undertook to make libraries in all municipalities where desmine, so in 2015 he began the construction of a mobile library in the municipality of Briceño will have the special feature of using containers for easy adaptability to Colombian geography, with an investment of $ 34,308,869,108. In 2015 Mincultura forward intervention works in nine cities, with an approximate value to $ 25.175 billion, including: Chapels Paeces in Páez-Belalcázar, Cauca; Bolivar Park Buga, Valle del Cauca; the Dome Church of the Conception in Mompóx, Bolivar, and the Museum of Colonial Art in Bogota. Also in the capital, with a totally controlled by a digital console props, Teatro Colón, was endowed this year with the most modern theater mechanics, with which he completed the last phase of the second stage of the renovation of the emblematic temple of the arts .
6. A musician and hero were honored in 2015.
José Barros Exhibition Antonio Nariño
The Ministry of Culture declared the 2015 as the Year Jose Barros to commemorate the centenary of the birth of this prolific composer Colombian author of works such as the Canoe and Momposina. Mincultura promoted activities and initiatives such as the concerts of the centennial of the birth of master Barros, El Banco, Magdalena and national celebration of Independence Day in Palmira, Valle del Cauca; his work was massive shaft strategies as Celebrate Dance celebrates music and dance Cocoroyó Award; the interpretation of ‘The fisherman by the First Virtual Choir Colombia Colombian singers comprised of 150 residents within and outside the country, among other actions.
also declared the Year Antonio Nariño to commemorate the ideas of the hero in the 250 years of his birth. The Ministry of Culture and the National Library conducted sample urban ‘Now or never art. Ideas are to release ‘, in charge of the Drug Addicts, Erre and Lesivo artists to give a contemporary look of Nariño and will be exhibited at the National Library until March 2016, together with the exhibition “Antonio Nariño or the Adventure of thought ‘. The Museum of Independence – Vase House also held the exhibition “Antonio Nariño 250 years: Testimonials’.
7. National Literacy Plan ‘Read my story’, the commitment to a reader
country During 2015 and the Ministry of Culture continued betting on creating the habit of reading among Colombians and increase reading rates through the National Literacy Plan ‘Read my story’. In turn, the Ministry of Culture joined the campaign “Give a book is my story ‘, held in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, the Colombian Book Chamber, so that Colombians give away a new book to more than 8 million students from public schools in the country. To date we have collected more than 91,000 copies as the Ministry of Culture he has given to each student Vaupés, Guainía, San Andres and Providencia, Amazonas, Guaviare and Vichada, and 58,000 are currently collected for the department of Arauca.
> Through the National Network of Public Libraries, by December 2015, 415 additional connectivity libraries are guaranteed, obtaining 1257 connectivity libraries (88%) of the 1,414 that currently are part of network, among others.
The Ministry of Culture supported, along with the Colombian Chamber of Books, the book fairs of Pasto, Bucaramanga, Cucuta, Medellin, Cali and Pereira, as well as reading shows that were conducted, along with the Colombian Association Independent Booksellers in Florence, Popayan, Riohacha, Barranquilla, Ibague and Villavicencio. In particular, the Bogota Book Fair 2015, supported by The Ministry of Culture, and had to Macondo as guest of honor, in memory of Gabriel García Márquez, had the extraordinary figure of 520,000 visitors during the 14 days Corferias that conducted.
This year delivery of the second version of the Hispanic American Story Prize Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who had the winning Bolivian Magela Baudoin (Bolivia) for his book The Making of ‘The composition of salt’ and who he received a bag of $ 100,000.
The total resources invested in the National Literacy Plan in 2015 amounted to more than $ 75,000 million. He has also received contributions from allies for more than $ 10,000 million. Investment in books available to access Colombians in 2015 amounted to the sum of $ 10,301,405,454. In the current government, the total investment of the Plan represents 37% of the investment budget of the Ministry of Culture.
8 a sector that continues to strengthen thanks to the Public Entertainment Act
Thanks to the 1493 Act of 2011 or Public Entertainment Act this year in the country, resources are raised by more of 16 billion pesos. Of them invested $ 10,329,821,476 in strengthening, adaptation and construction of 42 cultural facilities in the performing arts in the country. Since the implementation of this Act significantly increased the cultural offer for Colombians, as well as conducting concerts by international artists such as Paul McCartney, Madonna, Metallica, Katy Perry, Muse, Foo Figthers, Cirque du Soleil, Maroon 5, Pearl Jam, among others; Confirmation of the visit of the legendary band The Rolling Stones in 2016 and the presence of one of the most important music festivals in the world as it is Loolapalooza, are made possible by the law.
9. Orange economy growing by leaps firm
The ‘Embark Culture, Culture for Prosperity’ program used the productive cultural potential of people in a vulnerable situation to create opportunities for training, support and income generation, as a bet of social innovation for the country, for 50 municipalities and more than 3,700 people. At the close of the process, 300 projects were selected, which were asked delivering seed capital for more than $ 6,000 million.
This year the national circulation of more than 150 artists are allowed in national markets ( MINEC) in San Andrés, Medellin Cultural Market – Circulart, the Pacific Music Market in Cali, Bogota Music Market, the Caribbean Cultural Market in Cartagena, among others. At the international level the participation of 15 businessmen music markets Womex (World Music Expo) in Budapest, Hungary and MaMa Event in Paris, France
stands out. On the other hand, with a contribution of $ 300 million Mincultura the National Guarantee Fund in September this year, it is expected that banks grant loans up to $ 4,400 million to companies.
10. Harmonics for reconciliation and peace
In 2015 the Ministry of Culture, through the National Plan of Music for Coexistence, PNMC, 720 Municipal Schools of Music were strengthened, 950 music schools managed formalized, nearly a thousand municipalities were supplied with musical instruments, 487 stimuli were given to creation, research, management and musical movement; hundred thousand children and young people benefited in Municipal Schools of Music, more than a thousand musicians were updated in processes of professionalization, 77 pedagogic and musical materials were developed and distributed to municipalities and 1,349 community leaders were trained. Mincultura supported with an investment of 14 billion pesos, the Music Program for Reconciliation of the National Batuta Foundation, through 132 music centers, benefiting more than 19,000 Colombians, of which 91% are children and youth as well as African, indigenous and people with disabilities. Thanks to Music for Reconciliation, music has become one peace tool that mitigates the differences and transforms the contexts of violence.
11. Huge support for the work of managers and creators across the country
In 2015 the offer of the National Incentives Program, had 144 calls, shown in the delivery of incentives 767 1,321 winners, with an investment of more than 16,860 million pesos, in 29 departments. Meanwhile,
National Coordination Program in 2015 supported 1,838 projects and cultural activities with an investment of $ 68.162 million, double the budget allocated in relation to 2010. Also effective coverage of 347 municipalities was expanded in 2011-482 in 2015, representing an increase of 39%, also, there were more bodies and beneficiary institutions, from 900-1341 in this period (49% more). In total, 22,800,000 people benefited on average each year.
12. Communication for peace and strengthening the cultural heritage
In 2015, through the Department of Communications, the Ministry of Culture strengthened the contents of community and university radio stations for peace, in the case of television Children and content production processes and cultural content is supported, in terms of digital culture 100 entrepreneurs relied on cultural entrepreneurship and delivered with MINTIC 3,000 million in Stimulus for content and 4 digital culture on communication and peace forums were held with support from regional universities
On the other hand this year the National Museum of Colombia held nine exhibitions among which stand Encounters Mexico Colombia ‘,’ Memories of the peasant world, ” Omar Rayo. vibrant geometry ‘and’ Tribute to the mayor of Macondo ‘; also it amended four rooms of the permanent collection (Currencies, silver dome, visible Reserve collections of ethnography and Colombia in motion) and benefited 17,432 people in 11 municipalities through the organization of 15 exhibitions. Similarly, he performed the iconographic exhibition Women between lines was sent to the 1,103 municipalities in Colombia. By December 6, 355,038 people entered the National Museum and benefited 115,972 educational and cultural services. Finally, the National Museum, accompanied the management of museum projects of several museums in the country for more than 3,760 million pesos, thanks to various sources Coalition, Resource Consumption Tax and Incentives.
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