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The Castle of the Arts was launched this Wednesday, December 16 and will have a library, a museum, laboratories and cultural workshops. The place will operate 24 hours a day.
El Castillo, which was known for being a famous brothel located in the center of Bogotá, is now a cultural center, which will bear the name “El Castillo de las Artes”. The place had been seized in 2017 for having possible links with drug trafficking and has since been abandoned.
The new cultural center will offer an arts school, a library, a museum, social mapping processes, collective creation laboratories, talks, workshops to revive the arts, cinemas, exhibitions, concerts, theater plays and dance shows. The place will work all week 24 hours.
“The dream of El Castillo de las Artes was born because we want to have a space to handle all the territorial intervention at that point and in the 19 towns of Bogotá, and add the arts to arrive in a correct way. More than an alternative, it is a commitment to ethics and aesthetics in the face of coexistence ”, said Carlos Marín, director of the District Institute for the Protection of Children and Youth (IDIPRON).
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The idea of the project is to promote the arts and culture, as well as the empowerment of cultural rights and the care of life. “It will benefit communities and territories affected by multiple violence, particularly in the towns of Santa Fe and Los Mártires, highlighting, making visible and recognizing their wealth and the political, social, cultural and artistic diversity found in these territories,” said Catalina Valencia Tobón, director of the District Institute of the Arts (Idartes).
The place will be accompanied by Idartes, IDIPRON, the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (FUGA), the Secretaries of Security, Culture, Women and Social Integration. The Los Mártires Local Mayor’s Office and the Peace and Reconciliation Memory Center will also support the initiative.
During the launch of the new center, the facade of the building will be covered with a loom built by the Group of Women Victims of the Armed Conflict (Asomujer).
