The Idartes art laboratories for children returned in Bogotá

They are located in spaces arranged for the arts in the different towns of the city

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The District Institute of Arts - Idartes announced the reopening of its Nidos Program, with 17 artistic exploration laboratories for children between 0 and 5 years old, which can be accessed free of charge in spaces dedicated to art and located in the different locations of the city of Bogotá.

“These spaces are unique in the country, they have an endowment that allows children to play and create, they are set with different themes,” said the entity's communication and at the same time explained that the laboratories will have new schedules and some surprises.

In these spaces, children, accompanied by adults, will be able, in particularly suitable spaces, to meet their needs for their integral development, typical of their first years of life. “Physical laboratories are conceived as scenarios where early childhood children can share with their caregivers and interact with the languages of art, safely,” explained the Institute.

Among the activities available for infants, there is that of the Colonial Museum where Ivo and Garabatea Tea, will make an invitation to play and exploration, there will also be Green Truth and Abode Lying “, who play with truth and memories in the town of Santa Fe. Like these, there are other characters, stories and places that return to meet the girls and boys of the city.”

Nests Program
This strategy seeks to put into dialogue the creation of spaces for early childhood and their contents, generating places for collaborative construction and exchange of knowledge. Idartes.

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The exact location of each location and its opening hours can be found on the website www.nidos.gov.co/programacion. The entity expects that by 2023 early childhood in Bogotá will have 23 artistic laboratories throughout the city.

“Since 2013, the Nidos Program has adapted various spaces in different parts of the city with the aim of enabling children to explore the world through the different languages of art, including the audiovisual arts in the Rayito Room of the Bogotá Cinematheque and social integration in the new laboratory El Castillo de los Sueños, located in El Castillo de las Artes in the town of Los Mártires”, announced the institute.

Infants will also be able to access from their homes or gardens in the Play with Nests section, with multimedia content to sing, draw, read and share through invitations to play, which are updated weekly. It will be available from next Sunday, March 27 with the 5th chapter of the podcast Mochilita de tales, a radio production that tells the stories of migration, travel and adventures of girls and boys.

It should be said that according to Idartes, “the interventions that physical laboratories have been developed by collectives of artists and designers and their creation is accompanied by the pedagogical artistic team of the Art in Early Childhood program”.

In this pedagogical space, “spaces are created based on the linking of the biological dimensions of children's development and the various aesthetic alternatives”. For the Nidos Program, this implies “understanding the singularities of childhood in each of the contexts of the 17 physical laboratories”.

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