The City of Buenos Aires joins Spain to provide more culture
With the aim of generating content with free and open access, the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires and the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires (comb) reached an agreement that will guarantee a wide offer through the platform "Culture at Home".
These contents can be enjoyed from this Wednesday 23 September and in addition to the aforementioned site, can be seen on different digital platforms.
The CCEBA is part of the Network of Cultural Cooperation Centers of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (aecidia). Since 1988, the CCEBA - initially as the Ibero-American Cooperation Institute "ICI"- constitutes a space dedicated to meeting and cultural exchange, where prominent Ibero-American creators meet.
Nowadays, The CCEBA together with the team of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain supports and generates projects that promote cultural action as a tool to achieve well-being and social dignity, democratic governance and promotion of human rights, gender equity, environmental sustainability, and respect for diversity. Among its programming lines, the training activities stand out, exhibitions, concerts, audiovisual projections, encounters, presentations, discussion spaces and publications dedicated to the arts, cultural management, the communication, scientific dissemination and new technologies.
About the cooperation agreement that allowed this new exchange, the Minister of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires Enrique Avogadro, He held: “We are very happy to be able to celebrate this cultural bridge through the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires. This initiative has the premise of making artistic and cultural activity a link of integration, fundamental in these times that we are going through. Connect our digital platforms to enjoy their cultural expressions and heritage, it is enriching for everyone. We are sure that in this framework it is essential to join forces to work together, guaranteeing free online access to culture ".
Meanwhile, Luis Marina, Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of Spain, highlighted: “We join this initiative with great satisfaction. Culture, more if possible in difficult times like the ones we go through everywhere, must remain a source of exchange, of innovation and creativity and an essential tool for rapprochement between peoples ".
Spanish theater, conversations with writers, and a documentary investigation on the pop artists in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, are some of the proposals that will be available from this agreement with the CCEBA. Since Wednesday 23 September the following contents will be on the BA Cultura en Casa website, and then they will be housed in the section What to do / Discover the Culture of the World: