News: Culture

Venezuela to Expand Its El Sistema Music Program

chris — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:25:10 +0000

Founder of Venezuela’s world famous El Sistema music program, Jose Abreu, met with President Nicolas Maduro last night to discuss expanding the program. They agreed on a project called Musical Program Simon Bolivar, which will aim to have one million Venezuelan youth and children playing musical instruments.

Venezuela: Artists Form National Guitar Network

tamara — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:01:08 +0000

Venezuelan musicians and and cultural authorities formed a national guitar network on Wednesday, aimed at promoting the instrument nationwide.

Venezuelan Film Industry Beginning to Flourish

ewan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:01:47 +0000

The rise in the quantity and profile of Venezuelan films comes after a spectacular collapse in the industry in the 1990s.

Venezuela’s Dancing Devils Receive Country’s First Intangible Heritage Recognition by Unesco

ewan — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:22:06 +0000

One of Venezuela’s most celebrated traditions was granted Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity status by the United Nation’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) on Wednesday during a committee meeting of the international body in Paris.

Caracas Hosts National Conference on Venezuelan Cultural Diversity

ewan — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:26:28 +0000

Close to 2,000 representatives of communities from all over Venezuela arrived in Caracas last Monday to participate in the country’s 7th National Cultural Diversity Conference.

New Venezuelan Festival Promotes National Music and Artists

ewan — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:34:38 +0000

A Venezuelan festival aimed at promoting national artists and music recordings opened up to the public in Caracas on Wednesday.

Venezuela’s “Mission Culture” Celebrates Seventh Anniversary

Rachael — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:53:09 +0000

Mission Culture, a social program that aims to transform cultural education in Venezuela, celebrated its seventh anniversary on Tuesday. The program was created on July 10, 2005, by the government of President Hugo Chávez, and since then it has trained over 12,000 people in different areas of the arts to foster a renewal of popular creativity.

Venezuela’s Great Patriotic Pole Continues to Organise, Forms Culture Council

greg — Tue, 29 May 2012 02:55:04 +0000

With the formation of its Culture Council yesterday, Venezuela’s Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) coalition of social movements continues to organise itself ahead of the 7 October presidential elections.

National Study: New Book Culture Sees More Venezuelans Reading Regularly

greg — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:08:12 +0000

According to a Reading Behaviour Study conducted jointly by the National Book Centre, the Venezuelan Book Laboratory, and Goya Consultancy, 50.2% of Venezuela’s population are book readers, with a preference towards history, politics, and social issues.

8th Venezuelan International Book Fair Closes with Attendance Up

greg — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:32:09 +0000

Venezuela’s 8th Annual International Book Fair (Filven) closed on Sunday with record attendance, up over 20% from 2011. Between 9 and 18 March over 235,000 visitors attended the open cultural event, compared with 180,000 last year.

Venezuelan Government Hands out Traditional Musical Instruments as Part of Crime Prevention Strategy

ewan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:06:06 +0000

On Monday the Venezuelan government handed out 600 musical instruments to children from ten schools in Caracas, as part of a strategy to prevent crime, and bringing the number of instruments handed out so far to a total of 1,600.

Venezuelan Music Program to Begin in United States

Rachael — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:39:20 +0000

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has seized the initiative in guiding a national teaching program based on El Sistema, the Venezuelan-based movement that weds music teaching and social work.

Venezuela Prison Orchestra Gives Hope to Inmates

juan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:48:14 +0000

Surrounded on four sides by high walls or fences, looked over by a watch tower and countless closedcircuit cameras, the inner courtyard at this mixed prison is a barren and unwelcoming place. But the music is a clue that not all is so bleak at this jail.