Idartes is looking for 40 artists to be part of KY Art School

The Art Institute of the Province of Bogotá (Administrations) has opened the call for artists from the public space to participate in the second edition of Escuela Arte a la KY, a comprehensive training exercise to promote artistic practices, and to organize street art exhibitions from the city.

For this purpose, KY School of Art has arranged activities to develop skills and competencies in topics such as engaging with digital tools, cultural marketing, communication and expression strategies, and collaborative networking.

Thus, persons interested in participating in the permit platform must be registered for the economic use of public spaces. www.paes.gov.co You can register until July 25 through this form.

After the engravings close, 40 artists, including cartoonists, caricaturists, painters, sculptors, human figurines, singers, musicians, landscape artists and oral narrators, among others, who will be part of this training process developed by the Sustainability Line of the Art Ecosystem and Idartes Art Program will be selected. to KY, powered by El Eje Creatividades Collaborativas Corporation.

According to Quena Leonel, Idartes Artistic Ecosystem Sustainable Line lead, this project also seeks to bridge social and regional gaps by accessing qualification opportunities. “Our goal is for the city’s artistic initiatives to be socially, economically, politically and environmentally sustainable, which is why we encourage training processes that prioritize the creative component and recognize the work, in this case, of street artists.”

Participants in Escuela Arte a la KY will receive 30 hours of training focused on construction labs, which will be carried out in person and under a learning-by-doing methodology.. At the end of the program, a social awareness meeting will be held for the projects that will be the result of the training process; In addition, the artists will have the opportunity to attend distribution events organized by the Departments to promote their work.

“This school joins the activities managed by the Departments to serve, promote and honor the work of street artists within the framework of the new Social and Environmental Contract of Bogotá. One of our main goals is to place the work of people who carry out their artistic practices in public spaces and to recognize their value as enablers of art creation in life and public spaces, and with this Meaning We will move forward with this training program,” says Daniel Sanchez, Arte a la KY Program Coordinator.

Finally, from Idartes, they have invited artists from public spaces to participate in this training opportunity so that they can practice their practice in a sustainable and dignified manner, as primary actors in building the district, creating city stories and the dynamic relationships between the arts and citizenship.

Next Tuesday, July 19, Ibrahim Ferrer Jr. – the youngest son of legendary Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer – will perform at the Jorge Eliaser Gaitán Theater, downtown Bogotá, at the 25th Anniversary Commemoration of the Buena Vista Social Club.

From the Provincial Institute of Arts (Administrations), Deputy Director of Cultural Facilities, Mauricio Galeano, described it as “a privilege to have a new voice for Cuba on the stage of Jorge Elicer Gaetán, where the audience will be able to enjoy an artist whose voice and music will take you on a journey where you will attract the classics of Cuban sounds to The nostalgia and interpretive quality left behind by the famous Buena Vista Social Club.”

Now, the capital’s audience will be able to enjoy the best of Cuban sounds at the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theatre.

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