With the power of art: an art and memory entrepreneurship fair

This Saturday, March 19, at the Bogotá Planetarium, young people from Suba, Usme, Ciudad Bolivar, Usaquén and Los Martyrs will present their stained glass, linoleum, wool and literature projects in 'With the power of art', an entrepreneurship fair from one o'clock in the afternoon. Admission is free.

With the Power of Art is one of the components of the project A Citizenship from Arts and Rights in Bogotá, by Idartes and the PLAN Foundation.

After a process of collective artistic creation, 125 young people from the towns of Usaquén, Suba, Usme, Martyrs and Ciudad Bolivar in Bogotá built their own community entrepreneurship projects from the arts. This Saturday, March 19, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Bogotá Planetarium, will be the time to meet you at the Art and Memory Entrepreneurship Fair: With the Power of Art, which will have free admission.

“From Idartes we want to contribute voices to the discussion on the construction of memory and symbolic reparation in the city. That is why we are committed to recognizing the role of young people in this process and the power that art gives them to enunciate themselves from there. This fair is a unique opportunity to network, approach and share”, warned Catalina Valencia Tobón, director of Idartes.

The participants from the town of Suba carved their lives on linoleum and will show the audience that a change still awaits them. The memories of the lives that inhabit the mountains in Ciudad Bolivar were painted with the colors of stained glass windows and the lives of the young people of Usaquén who want to build peace through memory and reconciliation were woven through wool. And that learning to read is not only done with a book... learning to read means that one can make sense of what is seen beyond the gaze of the walkers of Los Martyrs.

“At PLAN we are convinced that through art we can change and transform the lives of young people and society in general. I invite you to never stop dreaming, not setting limits but goals and that with all your strength and intelligence we can continue to travel, change and improve the conditions of our country's youth,” said Ángela Beatriz Anzola de Toro, executive president of Fundación PLAN.

Until June 2, 2022, Colombian women will be able to participate in the third edition of the Elisa Mújica National Narrative Award, which is being carried out by the District Institute of Arts (Idartes) in partnership with Laguna Libros, an independent publisher.

This initiative was born in 2018 as a commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Colombian writer Elisa Mújica, and seeks to ponder the work of a Colombian writer who writes any kind of narratives, whether fiction or non-fiction, in genres such as novel, short story, literary essay, chronicle and testimony, you can also participate with a compilation of texts.

The winner will be announced on November 15 of this year and will receive an economic stimulus of $32,000,000 and the publication of the work in Laguna Libros.

Interested parties must submit a work that must be unpublished, that is, it has not been published in any digital or printed media and not previously received recognition. It should be noted that the prize works under anonymous mode, so participants must not reveal their identity anywhere in the proposal. If they do, they will be disqualified.

The full rules of the call can be found here.

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