| It will be this Wednesday, starting at 10 am, and will be attended by the Deputy Mayor, the Delegate Councilor for Culture and the General Director of Cultural Assets | Thirty representatives of the world of culture in Cartagena have visited the Central Cinema on Wednesday, July 29, to see the building and make their contributions so that the recovery project includes all the possible uses that the future cultural center may offer.The vice mayor, Noelia Arroyo, stressed that "the cultural sector has to actively participate, from the first moment, in the elaboration of the winning project of the ideas competition", whose term ends on September 19 and will have a writing deadline of six months to collect all the suggestions that allow making a space adapted to the needs of cinema and the performing arts.Arroyo, who has been accompanied by the general director of Cultural Assets, Rafael Gómez, and the delegate councilor for Culture, Carlos Piñana, has highlighted that “it is a strategic project for this legislature, which not only contemplates the recovery of the Central Cinema and the expansion to other cultural uses, but also the recovery of the Plaza del Lago converted into a plaza of culture, with buildings of the importance of the MURAM and the Palacio de Aguirre.
"All this, he added," together with the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the projects in the surroundings of the Monte Sacro that will become an attraction for the young public ”.The president of the Cartagena Film Festival, Nacho Ros, has called for "unity of the culture sector to make a project for everyone, in a magnificent space that offers us many possibilities", as well as Nuria Más, representative of dance in Cartagena that has highlighted "the enthusiasm and drive of the City Council and the Ministry, being able to participate in the project that will be carried out with our ideas to make a multifaceted space for the city."It must be remembered that it is a project of the Ministry of Culture, supported and promoted by the City Council, to create a large cultural center available to the world of culture and for the enjoyment of all Cartagena, maintaining its cinema hall given its relevance historical cinema for the city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena