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Venezuela to Expand Its El Sistema Music Program

May 22nd 2013

Jose Abreu (left) and President Nicolas Maduro (VTV)

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.

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Venezuela: Artists Form National Guitar Network

Feb 22nd 2013

Venezuelan musicians

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

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Venezuelan Film Industry Beginning to Flourish

Feb 1st 2013

A community film showing (AVN)

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

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

Dec 7th 2012

(Cofradia)

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.

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Caracas Hosts National Conference on Venezuelan Cultural Diversity

Sep 3rd 2012

An event during the close of the 7th National Cultural Diversity Conference in Caracas yesterday (Primicias24)

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.

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New Venezuelan Festival Promotes National Music and Artists

Aug 16th 2012

The opening of the Venezuelan Festival of the Disc 2012 (patriagrande)

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

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Venezuela’s “Mission Culture” Celebrates Seventh Anniversary

Jul 12th 2012

(venezuela-us.org)

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.

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

May 28th 2012

The GPP’s Patriotic Council of Culture was established yesterday with participating intellectuals, artists, musicians and cult

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.

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National Study: New Book Culture Sees More Venezuelans Reading Regularly

Apr 24th 2012

Children receive free books at Venezuela’s annual book fair this year (AVN).

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.

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8th Venezuelan International Book Fair Closes with Attendance Up

Mar 20th 2012

The Filven 2012 book fair saw a massive rise in attendance (YKVE Mundial).

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.

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

Mar 14th 2012

Children receiving their musical instruments (Mpprij)

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.

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Venezuelan Music Program to Begin in United States

Oct 9th 2011

Over 250,000 Venezuelan children are learning to play an instrument in the Venezuelan music program, known as "el sistema&q

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.

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Venezuela Prison Orchestra Gives Hope to Inmates

Aug 12th 2011

Members of the Venezuelan Prison Orchestra performing live on national television (Agencies)

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.

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