The Power of Culture

The Casa de las Américas Research Centre for Literature wants to express with its prizes mainly literary-artistic appreciation for books by Latin American authors.

The Proyecto Amauta works from the Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas in Cusco and stimulates skills with audio-visual resources in the region.

Young dancers from Colombia don't have to go abroad anymore in order to develop themselves professionally. Now there's an integral and long-term training course available, which occupies itself with their mental development as well.

No Apto Para Adultos – Not Suitable for Adults has good prospects in a country where more than forty percent of the population is younger than nineteen. NAPA, which is still operating regionally, wants to become therefore a broadcasting company for all Peruvians.

With government investments of more than thirteen million dollars, the Villa del Cine film complex that opened in Venezuela in 2006 is intended to significantly stimulate the local and Caribbean film industry.

"Gastronomy is the cultural expression of a basic need. It plays an irreplaceable part in development processes," says Manual Izaguirre Sotomayor, head of the Tourist Observatory of the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru.

"Music education is one of the pillars of the cultural development of each and every individual", says festival director Jan van Charante.