Although not all communes in the country are under mandatory quarantine, the general call is to stay at home and thus stop the contagion curve. In this scenario, in which universities and cultural centers remain closed, state universities have made available free and open cultural activities to be carried out online.

Cultural Action is the name of the page that brings together the panoramas and artistic-cultural activities of the 18 State Universities of Chile. This site is the result of the work of the Arts, Cultures and Heritage network, whose objective is to open university spaces and democratize access to cultural assets throughout the country.

During these months, Acción Cultural will be dedicated to disseminating the recommendations that universities make week after week, including concerts, books, workshops and Chilean films available to watch or download for free.

Through the site, you can even access photographic exhibitions and tours of museums in Chile and the world, expanding cultural spaces beyond universities and offering a window to explore different activities without leaving home.

Along with weekly recommendations, some universities have chosen to carry out daily activities such as workshops and talks. These links will also be available on the billboard, where you can view the activities scheduled for each day.

Finally, the page will be updated weekly with featured activities, including a summary of concert, literature and film recommendations.

You can access the Cultural Action billboard by clicking click here.

Source: Network of State Universities of Chile

This ULS initiative is the third of its kind so far in the preventive quarantine - preceded by #QuedateEnCasa #VuelveALeer and #QuedateEnCasa #DiscoverLaMúsica - and seeks to bring the community closer to cultural expressions.

Cinema, culture and national theater is what the University of La Serena will offer through a new communication campaign called #StayHome #FromYourButaca, whose purpose is to accompany the community in these times of COVID-19 preventive quarantine, offering access to an hour culture daily, recommending free access to cultural goods.

Starting today and for 2 weeks, the institution will recommend, via emails and social networks, films and plays, with the conviction that people's quality of life improves when they integrate the enjoyment of the world into their information consumption habits. of culture and the arts.

The programming of recommendations includes content for children and adults, and is organized into 3 blocks: theatrical works from the archive of the National Theater (Escenix); works from Teatro a Mil and, finally, films from the National Cinematheque.

These 10 recommendations will guide the community in consuming the best of the performing arts and national filmography, from the Web and without leaving home.

Regarding this initiative, the person in charge of Culture of the Directorate of Links with the Environment and Extension (DIVEULS), Fernando Tapia, advanced and pointed out that “#StayAtHome # DesdeTuButaca invites the community to enjoy national cinema and theater to complement well-being of people (…). This campaign comes to give relaxation to our lives, because art and culture provide that, even managing to delve into human emotions and expressions.”

This ULS initiative is the third of its kind so far in the preventive quarantine - preceded by #QuedateEnCasa #VuelveALeer and #QuedateEnCasa #DiscoverLaMúsica - and seeks to bring the community closer to cultural expressions.

Written by Jenifer Araya, DIVEULS

The coronavirus emergency has generated a change in regular activities at our borders and the professional cast joins these measures, through their social networks.

With the arrival of Covid-19 in Chile and the health alert implemented by the Government, activities around culture in our country have been diminished. Due to this, the symphonic ensemble of the Coquimbo Region and, in turn, a cast belonging to the Network of Professional Regional Orchestras of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, has decided to give a twist to its musical programming.

The measures aim to encourage people to stay at home and avoid any type of exposure that could harm their health and that of their family. Therefore, the Universidad de La Serena Symphony Orchestra invites its followers present in Chile and around the world to become part of the 2020 season through its different digital platforms. “Due to the contingency we are at home; Therefore, we invite you to share through social networks where every week we will upload videos of our musicians, educational capsules and also videos of our previous seasons,” the concertmaster and artistic director of the cast, Leonardo Godoy Sepúlveda, stated in a video.

In the audiovisual capsule, the musician also clarifies that “the programmatic proposal for the year 2020 will undergo some adjustments due to the health contingency,” but that it can now be reviewed and downloaded by entering www.sinfonicalaserena.cl.

To find out about the activities that the professional group will be carrying out during this quarantine, you can visit their YouTube channel or visit their social networks, such as Fanpage: Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de La Serena; Instagram: @sinfonicalaserena and Twitter: @sinfonicaLS

Written by Camila Pérez, University of La Serena Symphony Orchestra

Invitations are for Saturday, February 8 and Monday, February 10.

A new version of the traditional La Serena Book Fair, in its XXXV literary meeting, will take place between January 30 and February 15 in the Gabriel González Videla square. On the occasion, the Publishing House of the University of La Serena, in addition to participating with a stand, as is usual on these dates, will present 2 of its most recent publications, titled “The indigenous toponyms of Norte Chico” (2019), by the author Herman Carvajal Lazo, and “Touring the Elqui Valley with Gabriela Mistral” (2019), a selection by Gabriela Mistral, made by Jaime Quezada.

Alejandro Abufom, manager of the ULS Publishing and Bookstore, highlighted that "book presentations are a way to bring authors closer to the public and contextualize the work in the words of the author or through a presenter. I like to call them launches. since officially the world is told 'here we have another human work, another prodigy of our species: language encoded in words'”.

The presentation of “The indigenous toponyms of Norte Chico (2019)” will be introduced by its author and CEHRC (Center for Historical Studies of the Coquimbo Region) on Saturday, February 8, at 19:00 p.m.; and “Touring the Elqui Valley with Gabriela Mistral” will be presented by Paula Ceballos (Mg. Gender and Culture; professor and editor) and Camipepe (Illustrators of the book) on Monday, February 10, at 20:00 p.m.

In response to the launch location and the opportunity to do so in the showcase provided by this fair, Abufom added that "launching them at the La Serena Book Fair is very significant for our University, because we are the state University of the Coquimbo Region and Our contents are mainly local and designed for our communities. We are grateful that this fair continues to be held year after year, despite the difficulties and challenges, because it is one of the important fairs we have in Chile. A tremendous effort from the Serenense municipality, a whole tradition that makes us proud".

Written by Jenifer Araya, DIVULS

This work continues the link that the U. de La Serena has had for many years with the Chilean poet, diplomat and pedagogue.

“Touring the Elqui Valley with Gabriela Mistral”, a selection of texts and preliminary references by Jaime Quezada, with an epilogical note by Sonia Montecino, is the latest publication from the La Serena University Publishing House, available as a new 2020 product at the ULS Bookstore. , located at Los Carrera 207, La Serena.

This book presents a selection of longing texts, anecdotes and impressions of the Elqui Valley, related to the landscape, the skies, the territory, food and animals. In this regard, the person in charge of the Publishing House of the University of La Serena, Alejandro Abufom, referred to the work involved in this publication and some relevant data in its production. “Jaime Quezada proposed this compilation project to us, which seemed like a very interesting idea to us. It was a long job of about a year and a half, where in addition to the compilation, we took the texts and gave them to a couple of regional illustrators called 'Camipepe' and we asked them to illustrate some parts of this book," he said.

At the same time, Abufom highlighted the quality of content and printing of this publication. “It is a very beautiful book, very well made, in full color and brings together in a very harmonious way the words of Gabriela Mistral regarding her native land.”

It should be noted that the “Camipepe” illustrators are 2 regional artists who participated in this project, which coincides with the work that the ULS Publishing House has been developing to promote regional work and the professionalization of the book industry, a topic in which precisely This year the University of La Serena was awarded a project of around 11 million pesos from the National Fund for the Promotion of Books and Reading, and which considers holding an editorial design workshop.

Regarding this initiative, Alejandro Abufom indicated that “our obligation as a university publisher is to promote the professionalization of the book industry in the region, therefore, we are privileging young illustrators, with a lot of potential, such as Camipepe. They are simple illustrations, very colorful, but with their own style, very distinctive of these two boys, and we hope to work with other illustrators in the region in the future.”

Written by Jenifer Araya, DIVEULS

The radio station of the University of La Serena will revive the large auditorium format with live audiences and musicians, providing a powerful broadcast platform for musicians and composers from the Coquimbo Region.

With the aim of strengthening its programmatic proposal and providing new broadcast spaces to local musicians, Radio Universitaria FM 94.5, a station from the University of La Serena, generated a new radio project, with which it was recently awarded the National Music Fund 2020, Chilean Music Radio Broadcasting line, a call led each year by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.

The winning project is called “From the Auditorium: live musical sessions with artists from the Coquimbo Region”, and will be a biweekly broadcast space, which will initially have six episodes in its first season, which will have a duration of 60 minutes. per chapter, intended to publicize and disseminate works by local creators, in live format, in the context of a large radio auditorium, in the style of the radio of yesteryear, staging in which the artists will perform their works, interacting with the audience and thus recovering a historical format that has been lost in current radio broadcasting.

For the Coordinator of the Department of Protocol and University Radio, Mg. Karina Damke Álvarez, the importance of developing this project is due to the fact that currently in our region there is no space intended to disseminate works by local authors and composers in this format, making this project a dissemination platform for artists' material. regional and especially for those linked to the University of La Serena. “We are very proud as a team to give life to this project, which consolidates the work that has been done to reinforce the local identity of our programming and for which this type of financing is key to the creation of new projects,” said Damke. .

The program will begin its broadcasts during the month of September 2020 and will be coordinated and conducted by Rodrigo Gutiérrez, in addition to the musical production of Daniela Banderas, an academic from the ULS Department of Music, who has selected the six participating artists, who represent the sound diversity that arises in our territory and especially in the training and academic field that exists within this University.

Among the participants in this space are the musicians Eduardo Enrique Gajardo, Gabriel Gálvez, Cristian Monreal, Patricio Galleguillos, María Cecilia Zamorano and Luis Alberto Mery, who will give life to this first season “From the Auditorium.”

Source: University Radio