This important initiative allows educational communities to access chamber concerts performed by professional musicians, members of the cast.

As a great contribution to the socialization of classical orchestral music in the community, the Educational Concerts are established, promoted by the Symphony Orchestra of the University of La Serena (OSULS), which since April has been visiting schools and institutions to share its talent This important initiative allows educational communities to access chamber concerts performed by professional musicians, members of the OSULS, who provide a playful and educational moment to schoolchildren.

This year three groups have been formed that perform simultaneously in different establishments: a Bronze Quintet, a String Quartet and a second String Quartet plus Clarinet, which have prepared a special repertoire for basic and secondary education students to join in. with classical music and its instruments. In the region there will be thousands who attend this wonderful encounter with art, since the Educational Concerts will take place between April and November.

One of the priorities raised by the technical team of the Regional Orchestra is to ''form audiences'', to interest people so that they can enjoy a pleasant moment, getting to know works by various authors. The musicians also generate entertaining spaces for dialogue with the students, sharing their experience and talent.

Inmates of the Huachalalume prison, users of the ''Virgen Morena'' Microcenter in Andacollo, students of the Salesianos San Ramón Technical High School, the German School or kindergartens, among others, have already received the interpreters in their classrooms. For the month of May, it is expected to repeat the success of the event in the events that will be held on the 28th, 29th and 30th.

Registration is still open on the website: www.sinfonicalaserena.cl and the registration of events in: www.facebook.com/sinfonicalaserena.

Registration is open for courses that start between the end of April and the beginning of May.

Various training courses in different areas are being offered by the Training Services Office, dependent on the Extension Directorate of the University of La Serena. The training is aimed at technicians, students, alumni of the institution and any interested person, also giving companies the possibility to pay through tax exemption. This office, which is now celebrating 10 years since it was first certified, stands out for its long history and experience training people in the Coquimbo Region, and seeks to cooperate in the promotion and development of workers' work skills, in order to contribute, through the training and qualification of people, to the economic and social development of the region. 

On this occasion, registration is open for the April and May courses: ISO 9001 Internal Auditor, Intermediate Excel, Microsoft Project, Budget and Costs in Construction Works, Autocad 3D Applications, Labor Legislation Applications, Intermediate Office Applications, Advanced Excel, Project Formulation and Evaluation, Construction Work Inspection Techniques, Applications of Macros in Excel, Applications of IFRS Standards (financial-accounting standards). 

The person in charge of the Office, Eng. Pablo Sánchez referred to why those interested should take a training course at the University of La Serena. ''Because the University is accredited as an institution, which is a first great support, second because it has been teaching for years and we are subject to certain standards that the University demands, therefore, there is a guarantee in the teaching area and At the same time there are spaces gained, for example, the fact that many of our speakers are professionals from the same institution, therefore there is a big difference with other courses,'' he emphasized.

On the other hand, regarding the challenges for this year, he commented that ''the idea is to expand the offer. Today we have all the computer courses as a base, we want to open that base hopefully by entering the area of ​​health, education and mining, that is, they are given at the request of the people and what we want to do is generate an offer that allows it to be maintained over time , and additionally in the medium term to incorporate the possibility of taking online courses, a currently nascent market. The advantage is that this system offers greater flexibility to workers since not all classes are in person, that is a slightly more long-term challenge, but one that we have considered at least starting with the design this year.'' 

It should be noted that the Training Services Office complies with a quality management and continuous improvement system, in accordance with the Chilean standard 2728:2003 and ISO 9001:2008 for 10 years.

For more information or details of the courses, call 2204172, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or in Amunátegui 890, La Serena.

This course is an opportunity for all older adults, and not so old, who have not yet entered today's technological society. 

Until May 9 or until available places are exhausted, registration will be open for the workshop on ''Introduction to the use of ICT'' or information and communication technologies, which will be held on Tuesdays, starting May 20 and until June 17, from 15:00 p.m. to 16:45 p.m., at the Educational Computing Center (CIE), located on the Isabel Bongard Campus of the University of La Serena. The workshop, which is part of the XXIV School for the Elderly, organized by the ULS Extension Directorate, lasts 12 pedagogical hours and will be taught by teachers Eva Toro Morán and Karina Núñez Varela, both CIE professionals. It has a unique value of $6.000 and, according to one of the speakers, its objective is to teach literacy to older adults so that they integrate into this new technological society and learn to use these tools that not only include the computer, but also digital cameras, social networks. , which are also part of the knowledge that can be acquired in subsequent workshops. 

''This course itself is to help you enter the first phase, to turn on the computer, to know the parts of it and what it can be used for. We are going to teach two fundamental tools that will help them transmit information, which is Word and the Internet, so that they begin to navigate and see sites such as newspapers, cooking sites, their bank, different platforms that can be managed and in a safe way,'' said Eva Toro, course presenter.

The invitation is for those people who wish to learn on their own initiative or out of necessity, since according to experience, students enroll for different reasons. ''Older adults arrive who have notebooks, who have the tool and don't know how to use it,'' commented the speaker, who also invited everyone to live a new experience, lose fear and connect with technology. 

For more information about this workshop, call 2204171, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or go to the Extension Center of the University of La Serena, located at Prat 446.

The activity invites a reflection on the papacy as such, what its value is, its meaning for the church and for Christianity in general.

Next Monday, April 28, at 17:00 p.m., the conference ''New era of the papacy: Francis and his reform'' will be held belonging to the cycle ''Opening Horizons'' of the XXIV School for the Elderly of the U. of La Serena. On this occasion, the inaugural activity will be given by Marcelo Sepúlveda, Master in Dogmatic Theology, in the Auditorium of the Mutual de Seguridad C.Ch.C, Los Carrera 330, 3rd Floor, La Serena. 

The conference is organized by the ULS Extension Directorate with the collaboration of the Los Andes Compensation Fund. It will delve deeper into Pope Francis and what he represents, as a novelty in many ways, for the life of the church, and the good news that he has meant to world opinion. Why does this happen? What are the scope of this novelty? What can we expect? They will be part of the topics that can be discussed in the activity. 

In the words of the rapporteur, ''the idea is to delve into the novel aspects that the papacy is representing in the way Pope Francis exercises the Petrine ministry. Let's pay attention, from the start, to the name chosen for the exercise of the Petrine ministry. Francisco is the first time that it has been chosen as a pope's name and, clearly, it refers to one of the most important saints in the history of Christianity and not only that, but by choosing the name Francisco, he chooses a way of living Christianity that It is the one that he wants to strengthen and highlight, and that seems relevant to me,'' he emphasized. 

Along the same lines, the rapporteur announced that the activity will necessarily remember and allude to the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi. ''Everything that he meant in his time, the revolution that he implied and the invitation to move forward in a church that was quite complicated and that invites the church to move forward in a certain way, through poverty, simplicity , focusing on the core values, etc., which is a bit what Pope Francis is doing now,'' Sepúlveda stated. 

The ''Opening Horizons'' cycle is part of the Program for the Elderly, promoted since 1991 by the Extension Directorate with the aim of contributing to the comprehensive training of the elderly through conferences on current regional and national topics.

For more information on this free entry activity, call 051-2-204171, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or at the Extension Center, located at Prat 446, La Serena.

The Extension Directorate and the Mistraliano Center of the University of La Serena announce the start of the new cycle of its traditional Poetic Café that will inaugurate the 2014 programming this Thursday, April 24, at 19:00 p.m., at the Extension Center . On this occasion, it will be held in tribute to the birth of Gabriela Mistral, so the theme will be contextualized in her literary work.

The activity will be directed, as usual, by Dr. Rolando Manzano Concha, director of the Mistralian Center of the house of higher studies, who leads this meeting space for all literature lovers who wish to participate in pleasant creative meetings. and poetic inspiration around a warm coffee.

For more information on this free entry activity, call 2204171, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at the Extension Center of the University of La Serena, located at Prat 446, La Serena.

The works are inspired by a healing process of the exhibitor, who suffered the loss of her first child. 

''Sanación'' is the name of the exhibition by the regional artist Rocío Salvador (Rocío Rojas Santibáñez), which will open on Friday, April 25, at 17:00 p.m., in the Exhibition Hall of the University of La Serena (Benavente 950) and which brings together works of intuitive painting and visionary art, as well as a selection of mandalas, fabrics and dream catchers, elements that helped her overcome a difficult moment in her life and that motivated the artist to take refuge in art'', as she herself comments. 

The exhibition, a compilation of the highlights of the graduate of the ULS School of Design in the last period, is loaded with color and symbolism, which speaks of the inner strength that led her to intuitive painting and, consequently, to visionary art. like the art of flow. In addition, it includes art in its entirety, incorporating various disciplines of painting and inner discipline techniques (contemplation, visualization and meditation): dream catchers, as ornamental figures of a symbolic nature and mandalas (or mandalas) as spiritual and symbolic representations. rituals of the macrocosm and the microcosm, used in Buddhism and Hinduism.

In Rocío's words, the exhibition ''travers visionary art and intuitive painting, and the name alludes to the fact that this entire exhibition is inspired by a healing process, after going through a difficult moment that consists of the loss of my first child. . It was something difficult but I took refuge in art and through art I moved forward and well everything that is creativity flowed, I immersed myself in visionary art, which is a branch of art that proposes transcending the physical world and portraying a broader vision. of knowledge, including spiritual or mystical themes,'' he stated. 

The exhibition ''Healing'', framed in the 2014 cycle of the ULS Extension Directorate, will be open to the public from Monday, April 28 to May 19 during Monday hours from 10:30 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. 15:30 p.m. to 18:00 p.m., and from Tuesday to Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. and from 15:30 p.m. to 18:00 p.m.