Puppets in Aguadas
FIRST PUPPETS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON BIODIVERSITY “AWAQ IN AGUADAS” 2022
Closed
20-01-2022
15-05-2022
Colombia
Aguadas – Caldas
Cultural – Environmental – Educative
To carry out the FIRST PUPPET SHOW INTERNATIONAL MEETING “AWAQ IN AGAUDAS” 2022 IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF Aguadas-Caldas, with the aim of promoting the formation of audiences and raising citizens’ awareness for the cultural development and he preservation of the environment.
The FIRST PUPPETS INTERNATIONAL MEETING “AWAQ IN AGUADAS 2022” was developed as a cultural and artistic space, addressed to children and young people from the municipality of Aguadas-Caldas, which sought to generate an environmentalist culture as part of the environmental dimension and essential principle of coexistence and democratization of goods and cultural and artistic services, towards the construction of sustainable societies (“To think globally, to act locally”).
The activities carried out during the meeting had the purpose to promote the formation of an audience, thus raising citizens’ awareness of cultural development and environment preservation, focused on making relevant environmental topics visible. Climate change is one of the most referred to aspects, but fauna or natural resources exploitation are also some of the highlighted points to consider in the productions of the theater companies who took part in the meeting.
With this initiative which deals with rural theater itinerancy, it is intended to decentralize theater shows from conventional theater halls in big cities, searching not only an audience formation in rural areas but also giving support to puppet show artists, both regional and national, who due to the bio sanitary emergency caused by Covid 19 have been affected both economically and professionally as lacking spaces to spread their artistic works.
As a chain effect, when providing a hall in a rural zone, tourism and nature are boosted, as it is possible for the different audiences, especially the city ones, to go to the countryside to enjoy cultural programs and interact with rural surroundings, which results not only in cultural development but also an economic one for the artists and rural zones.
The FIRST PUPPET SHOW INTERNATIONAL MEETING “AWAQ IN AGUADAS” 2022 was developed following these steps:
Caldas is a diverse and multicultural department, stuck to its traditions and beliefs, which gathers the biggest number of municipalities in the Coffee Region’s Cultural Landscape. However, the rural population in Northern Caldas, as well as a great number of the inhabitants of the department’s lanes, have it difficult to access both education and culture, as well as connectivity and technology, due to the state of the tertiary pathways that lead from urban areas to the different lanes where a significant percentage of the local population lives.
The development of the project AWAQ IN AGUADAS 2022 showed the existing need for decentralising the cultural offer, which is concentrated in cities, making it possible for rural areas to access a high-quality cultural and artistic offer, and also to overcome the cultural gap that exists because of their isolation within the national territory due to a precarious infrastructure.
Official guarantor for the development of the different activities within the Meeting in Aguadas, as well as a direct mediator with the community to bring the Meeting to the municipality.
a Professional puppet show company, which works in favor of human ecology, thus providing spaces of transformation around environmental matters, using theater as an awareness-raising tool.
a savings and credit cooperative that, through cooperativism, supports the projects of peasants and inhabitants of different municipalities in Colombia.
which has been working for more than 35 years committed to the children’s and young people’s sports development.
