Foundation Casa de la Cultura

José María Vivas Balcázar

Tunía - Cauca, Colombia

COMMUNITY LIBRARY AND

CULTURAL CENTRE
Tunía, Cauca Department

Colombia
 Cauca

1,000 inhabitants (village)

5,000 including surroundings
Contents

 History and structure of the foundation

 Library
 Cultural Centre
 Events, cultural dialogue, workshops
History in brief
 The first library of Tunía was founded in 1956, in order to
support an agricultural school. Books and magazines came
from donations.

 In 1985, the cultural centre "Casa de la Cultura - José María

Vivas Balcázar” was established in view of offering library
services both to students and to the local population. Vivas
Balcázar was a renowned poet from Tunía.

 Today the Library counts with 11,200 books and magazines,

a children's corner with 1,200 publications and a collection of
maps.
Structure
Actually, the Advisory Board of the Casa de
la cultura is led by two women, ELSA
STRAUSS (President) and MARIA
CLEMENCIA MUÑOZ (Vicepresident).
The Casa de la cultura is administered and
legally represented by PHANOR TERÁN.
The Casa de la cultura is part of the
Colombian network of libraries and is funded
exclusively by own activities and projects.
Historical publications
“Mi comarca" (my region) 1956.
MISSION of the cultural centre
To rebuild, preserve and spread the local cultural and artistic
patrimony, promoting research, diffusion and recovery of
individual and communitary heritage and to revive historical
ecologist and responsible attitudes
Community library
CASA DE LA CULTURA
"Mapoteca": Collection of
local and regional maps
Children's corner 1989 - 2010
Children's corner
School children
come to do their
homework,
research, read or
play ...
Register of users 2003 – 2010
La
Casa
de la
Cultura
Events:
Theatre from Argentina, 2009
Tunía Teatro. Our own
theatre company, 1985 – 2010
Cultural exchange
In the neighbouring village of Almaguer, 2009
Formation of an audience
1985 - 2010
After the performance:

Dialogue
with the
spectators
Support to local artisans
Solidarity building with
the ethnic group of the
Guambianos, 2007
Support of local artists, 2010
 Recovery of the cultural and
historical memory 2005 -2010

"Traces of our past, which we ignore and don't even care for ..."
Local memory – 2008
Cultural Memory – 2010
Participation in local
traditions
Repertoire of Tunía Teatro:

The Autopsy (Enrique Buenaventura)

Official
violence
and social
complicity
Notas para el olvido
Notes for forgetting (Phánor Terán)

Impunity
and the
social role
of theatre
El soplón
The Spy (Bertold Brecht)

In a fascist
regime,
everybody is
suspicious
Yeimi (Phánor Terán)

Refugees
and
forced
displace-
ment
Repertoire of Tunía Teatro:
Theatre for children
Awards and acknowledgements