The Department of Education and the Foundation Cajamar have developed a program of performances for the second half of the course, designed to encourage reading and love for the performing arts among young students
Councillor for Education, Joseph Marotta, director of Greater Social and Cultural Foundation Cajamar, Marcela Orozco, and the area manager Cajamar in Cartagena, Pedro Antonio Vidal, today presided over the presentation of the first Municipal Campaign Theatre School, an addition to educational training program that the Department has developed with schools.
A total of eight plays, by many other theater groups, represented from January to May at the Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy, some of them in two sessions, and is expected to attend more than 3,000 school elementary through bachelor, fifteen schools in the municipality.
This is an innovative proposal that, as noted Maroto, is designed to promote the love of reading and a taste for the performing arts and to encourage teamwork and helps children to express emotions and appreciate the elements of a work theater.
In addition, it offers a variety of topics, such as bullying, healthy eating and a multitude of values that must not be lost, read the tolerance, gender equality and multiculturalism, and even drama in English.
From Cajamar Foundation, who have launched this campaign with great success in Almería, consider the response from schools has met the expectations of Cartagena and predict that this performance will continue in the future. The culture is essential for creating good citizens and at this point to spread through the theater values continue to influence, claimed Marcela Orozco.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena