The councilor of Youth, Ricardo Segado, and the head of the Youth Service, María del Mar Sánchez, presented Monday the new winter program of the T-LA (Alternative Free Time) in the press room of the Palace of Cartagena.
The new program has a budget of 10,000 euros and has a total of 70 activities planned in its quarterly calendar.
Among the initiatives proposed for the beginning of this year 2017 are various workshops, courses and trips and excursions.
For example, trips to Sierra Nevada and Elche, excursions to Port Aventura and the Liquor factory 43 or the ascent to Mulhacén peak, as well as lasagna, theater, comic and illustration workshops, gender identity or vegetarian cuisine , And courses on youth and drugs, initiation to astronomy, initiation to sound and theatrical improvisation, among many other activities.
María del Mar Sánchez has highlighted the meetings of 'UrbanCT' - the first Friday of each month in the Center for Youth Resources - a periodic meeting of young people dedicated to the practice and improvement of skills in regard to activities dedicated to the movement Urban youth (music, training, graffiti ...).
He also recalled that from the Youth Service are still looking for a young idea for the poster and the image for this 2017 and has indicated that the deadline is still open, so it has encouraged young designers who are starting to present themselves.
As a particularly representative novelty, Sánchez has presented the first contest of emerging bands, which will be held soon in the 'El Santo' of Cartagena and will respond to the title of 'Banda Estrella'.
Entries to this competition, which are already open, will be closed on January 23 and can participate in Rock and Pop bands that do not have any type of record contract.
"VERY POSITIVE"
Ricardo Segado, meanwhile, has also presented the T-LA balance of autumn, which has resulted in a total of 6,000 participants in the 95 activities projected last quarter, in addition to the people who participated in the weekend of Halloween, the Inter-Associative Encounter and the Youth Market.
For the councilman of Youth, the increase of participation registered in the last three months "means that it is a program that works, which also serves as a true alternative - linked to the Night Pact - for young people."
According to Segado, the T-LA "is a good way for the City of Cartagena to present alternatives and to tell them that there are other leisure options in the municipality" and bets on "further development" because it is very useful in This aspect.
Not surprisingly, the T-LA program ended 2016, having organized up to 432 activities involving 18,532 young people from Cartagena who enjoyed these alternative leisure spaces in which the City Council invested a total of 45,000 euros.
REGISTRATION AND FUTURE FORECASTS
The inscriptions for all activities planned for this winter can be made by all those interested in the Youth Resource Center of Paseo Alfonso XIII, next to the Department of Youth, in front of the campus of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena.
On the other hand, it is anticipated that the next quarter will join the councils of Culture and Sport to the night activities linked to the Night Pact organizing activities on the nights of the weekend.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena