translated from Spanish: Morelia government has strengthened community cultural development in the municipality

Morelia, Michoacán.- The Government of Morelia through its Ministry of Culture has strengthened community cultural development, boosted cultural enterprises and the creative industry with a culture of peace approach, prevention of violence against women, addictions and guaranteeing the cultural rights of citizens, said its owner Cardiela Amézcua Luna, who would emphasize that the Secretariat in charge is one of the youngest municipal units of the City Council in recalling was created in 2017 and in the administration of the municipal president, Raúl Morón Orozco has worked to strengthen it.
In addition to maintaining and offering constant attention and follow-up to the guilds of the cultural sector such as artists, craftsmen, managers. Amézcua Luna recalled that actions and activities have been carried out on two sides mainly with the #CulturaEnTuCasa and “Morelia es Cultura” programmes, with which recognition has been obtained by the United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In this sense, the owner of SeCultura, Cardiela Amézcua, assured that in response to the health contingency by Covid-19 the program “Culture in your House” was launched, recognized by the representative of Unesco in Mexico, Fréderick Vacheron, as “a project so that citizens can exercise their cultural rights that are a fundamental resource of resilience, to maintain human and social cohesion links”, as well as being the first municipality to respond with a proposal to the contingency. Coupled with the protection of the social fabric and boosting the economy through the promotion, entrepreneurship of the creative industries.
In addition, the Secretary of Culture of Morelia stated that work has been done together with cultural companies in the creation of health protocols for the gradual reopening of their properties and in this municipal administration will also be included in the catalog of municipal operating licenses the turns of the creative industries for their strengthening.
For his part, the director of Emblematic Culture, César Cortés Pérez, commented that different activities, programs and actions have been carried out with a total of 356 cultural interactions from January to October 2020, which were divided between the face-to-face and the virtual in the face of health contingency, with activities such as exhibitions, meetings, parades, fairs, festivals, crafts, folk art, folk art, traditional arts and community culture, between face-to-face and virtual.
At the same time, the director of Culture Management, Fernando Fuerte Soto, emphasized that through his program “Morelia un Gran Escenario” 602 interactions between the virtual and the digital have been achieved in this year, with strategies such as the promotion of books, reading and literature, promotion and cultural promotion, as well as the formation of community art groups.
He detailed that for the remainder of this 2020, SeCultura Morelia prepares for a closure with activities such as the world premiere of the fictional documentary short film “Where Is Diego”, co-production between Colombia, Costa Rica, Paracho and Morelia, to be screened on the social networks of the depence on November 1 at 19:00 hours.
Finally, the Ministry of Culture will celebrate digitally the third anniversary of Morelia’s appointment as Creative City of Music with a virtual concert to be held on October 30 of this year and will be broadcast by the Facebook of SeCultura, at about 19:00 hours, which will have a range of musical genres that the municipality has thanks to which I achieve this important recognition by Unesco. With these actions and without stopping cultural activities or programs in the municipality, the Government of Morelia has overstified the culture.

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