Foundation Casa de la CulturaJosé María Vivas BalcázarTunía - Cauca, Colombia

COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY LIBRARYLIBRARY ANDAND CULTURALCULTURAL CENTRECENTRE

Tunía, Cauca Department

Colombia

Cauca

1,000 inhabitants (village)

5,000 including surroundings

Contents

History and structure of the foundation

Library Cultural Centre Events, cultural dialogue, workshops

History in brief

The first library of Tunía was founded in 1956, in order to support an agricultural school. Books and magazines came from donations.

In 1985, the cultural centre "Casa de la Cultura - José María Vivas Balcázar” was established in view of offering library services both to students and to the local population. Vivas Balcázar was a renowned poet from Tunía.

Today the Library counts with 11,200 books and magazines, a children's corner with 1,200 publications and a collection of maps.

Actually, the Advisory Board of the Casa de la cultura is led by two women, ELSA STRAUSS (President) and MARIA CLEMENCIA MUÑOZ (Vicepresident).

The Casa de la cultura is administered and legally represented by PHANOR TERÁN.

The Casa de la cultura is part of the Colombian network of libraries and is funded exclusively by own activities and projects.

Structure

Historical publications“Mi comarca" (my region) 1956.

MISSION of the cultural centre

To rebuild, preserve and spread the local cultural and artistic patrimony, promoting research, diffusion and recovery of individual and communitary heritage and to revive historical ecologist and responsible attitudes

Community library CASA DE LA CULTURA

"Mapoteca": Collection of local and regional maps

Children's corner 1989 - 2010

Children's corner

School children come to do their homework, research, read or play ...

Register of users 2003 – 2010

LaCasa de laCultura

Events: Theatre from Argentina, 2009

Tunía Teatro. Our own theatre company, 1985 – 2010

Cultural exchangeIn the neighbouring village of Almaguer, 2009

Formation of an audience 1985 - 2010

After the performance:

Dialogue with the spectators

Support to local artisans

Solidarity building with the ethnic group of the Guambianos, 2007

Support of local artists, 2010

"Traces of our past, which we ignore and don't even care for ..."

Recovery of the cultural and historical memory 2005 -2010

Local memory – 2008

Cultural Memory – 2010

Participation in local traditions

Repertoire of Tunía Teatro: The Autopsy (Enrique Buenaventura)

Official violence and social complicity

Notas para el olvidoNotes for forgetting (Phánor Terán)

Impunity and the social role of theatre

El soplónThe Spy (Bertold Brecht)

In a fascist regime, everybody is suspicious

Yeimi (Phánor Terán)

Refugees and forced displace-ment

Repertoire of Tunía Teatro:

Theatre for children

Awards and acknowledgements