Next Tuesday May 7 the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena has convened the cultural agents of the city for the constitution of the full Council of Culture, organ of participation and democratization of cultural management of the municipality, whose fundamental objective among others is to promote and elaborate the Municipal Culture Plan, which will take place on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the ceremonial room on the ground floor of the Consistorial Palace, presided by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón.
In the Conference of Culture and Municipality held in Cartagena established the need to establish the Council of Culture of Cartagena (CCCT), conceived as an institutional body of participation in the cultural management of the municipality, composed of representatives of different sectors and agents of the world cultural, and will have among its functions, in addition to serving as a channel for participation, the control of cultural policy, its development, coordination, monitoring and evaluation and, in this first stage, the impetus for the development and approval of the Plan Municipal de Cultura de Cartagena, planning document that has to collect the objectives and actions of this policy.
The Culture Council will gather the requests and ideas that any person interested in the culture of the city has made through the permanent work commissions, divided into visual and plastic arts, performing arts, music, reading, books and libraries, cinema and audiovisual , Cultural heritage and popular culture, Science and thought, Diversity and thought and a transversal Commission that will include topics related to cultural management in general.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena