After several months of absence and with proposals only online, Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) reopened its doors and with sold-out seats.

With a day full of music and a classic repertoire, From early on, people flocked to the traditional premises of Sarmiento street, respecting distance and with the corresponding health protocols.

Once the necessary checks are completed, the National Auditorium received the Klais Opus organ 1912, kicking off the opening of the concert, with the most famous work of the repertoire for the instrument: the toccata and fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by organist Matías Sagreras.

Then it was the turn of the duo made up of the singer-songwriter Nadia Larcher and the pianist Andrés Beeuwsaert, who offered moving versions of “Para ir” by Luis Alberto Spinetta, "Silence", by Nadia Larcher, and "La diablera", by Hilda Herrera and Antonio Nella Castro.

As a great closure, pianist Horacio Lavandera performed two works by Astor Piazzolla ("Goodbye Nonino" and "Libertango"), shortly after the 100 years of the birth of the great composer from Mar del Plata, as a preview of the great concerts that the Cultural Center will present in 2021. The concert closed with pure emotion, with the Argentine National Anthem in the hands of Lavandera.

During the day, the Minister of Culture of the Nation, Tristan Bauer, He stated that it was "a very emotional day because we started the stage of the reunion and the opening with a beautiful concert".

The official in turn added that "an important path begins with a different modality, both for the public and for the artists, with controls and protocols that we are going to develop with the greatest responsibility to enjoy the cultural and artistic activities that are so necessary and so important for everyone ".

For Bauer, “a stage of reactivation began; higher production and work, always with the primary objective of strengthening cultural industries ".

Meanwhile, Martín Bonavetti, Undersecretary of Management of Spaces and Special Projects of the Ministry of Culture, highlighted the importance of “meeting again with the public and with our workers, that allowed the Cultural Center not to stop its production rhythm and will generate its own virtual contents throughout this stage ".

For Bonavetti “this type of digital content allowed us to generate more than 500 productions and maintain the link with the artists around the need to reflect and produce thought, in a situation as exceptional as it is urgent. But we needed to meet face to face, with everyone ".

Finally, Verónica Fiorito, general director of the Kirchner Cultural Center, stayed on the same line, where with this reopening "We mark a new time, we encourage the spirits to listen after the directions that artistic expressions took in times of quarantine ".

Para Fiorito, seeing the open space meant "a continuity of the relationship, of the ties that we maintained and enliven ”during this year with the artists.

"These scenarios waited active physical presence, the artists were always here, It is not those who attend the rooms today who waited for the artists but the other way around. That wait was action to think again what we want on stage, up and down, fomentar relaciones de circulación entre les que asistan, those that produce and those that contribute a critical spirit to these times ", ended.