La Periférica - Cultura Contemporánea
Calle Jazmín 11, El Mamí
04120 Almería Almería
Spain
- Arts
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
We are a group of Cultural Managers from Almería that seeks to value cultural life from an innovative vision.
La Periférica is a launch pad for projects that foster and promote talent and creativity, the exchange of experiences and cultural cooperation.
Through artistic and cultural projects, our own and in collaboration with others, we intend to activate citizen involvement and participation, as well as reflection and action on contemporary challenges and issues. We comprise the different aspects of contemporary art and culture (audiovisuals, music, performing arts, anthropology, ecology, feminism, queer movement ...) as tools for social transformation and as vehicles for citizen mutual understanding and cohesion. Thanks to the fact that we are a multidisciplinary and specialized team in different areas of the cultural and creative sector, and with extensive experience in cooperation and the third sector, both nationally and internationally, we have managed to take different actions such as the conceptualization of our own programs and projects, cultural management and production, as well as the promotion of contemporary creation.
As "cultural agitators", from La Periférica, we conceive each project as a new seed to create, from horizontality and collaboration, a better world for everyone. Promoting environmental and social sustainability we want to contribute to greater solidarity, at the glocal level. All these values are transversal to the projects we carry out, from the contents to the management itself.
La Periférica always works as a team, in a democratic way, exercising listening as the main work tool. We team up, whenever possible, with other networks of professionals and institutions, associations, groups, initiatives and projects with which we share visions, values and ways of doing to achieve objectives. Furthermore, we work with numerous public institutions with which our interests come together.
The aims of the Association are:
- Carry out volunteer work to achieve a better society.
- Contribute to creating multiculturality and international solidarity.
- Promote mutual understanding, cultural exchange and cooperation between people of different nationalities, beliefs,
sexual condition, etc.
- Sensitize people about their important role as agents of change in society.
- Support local initiatives that promote the development and benefit of the community.
- Promote arts to raise the level of awareness about music and culture in the city and the province
- Promote the arts for children and young people by carrying out a continuous program of performances.
- Collaborate with different organizations in the field of art to help fuse different visual and plastic arts with other disciplines.
- Collaborate with cultural associations that promote independent culture at local and international levels
- Promote the arts such as painting, sculpture, poetry, photography etc, as long as the works have a connection with
contemporary culture.
The usual activities of our organization include:
- Management of international volunteering projects: support from the first stages of election, conducting and evaluating a
volunteer field; and after it, accompanying the volunteer to become an agent of change.
- International formations and assemblies where the strategic planning and the fields of volunteering.
- Trainings, seminars and meetings of international volunteers where intercultural issues are discussed, respect,
commitment, conflict resolution, logistics, etc. At the arrival of their fields a meeting with the objective of evaluating and
sharing experiences and learning.
- Holding concerts, workshops, exhibitions, stage performances, conferences.
- Elaboration of publications and texts of contemporary culture of the town of Almería in collaborations with different cultural
associations.
- Organize musical events and performances by different local and international performers to enrich the cultural offer of
our city
- Preparation of books and publications within the field of arts and contemporary culture
- Holding photography and plastic art exhibitions, poetry recitals, and different types of cultural events.
We are a group of Cultural Managers from Almería that seeks to value cultural life from an innovative vision. La Periférica is a launch pad for projects that foster and promote talent and creativity, the exchange of experiences and cultural cooperation.
Through artistic and cultural projects, our own and in collaboration with others, we seek to activate citizen involvement and participation, as well as reflection and action on contemporary challenges and issues. We understand the different facets of contemporary art and culture (audiovisuals, music, performing arts, anthropology, ecology, feminism, queer movement, etc.), as tools for social transformation and as vehicles for citizen understanding and cohesion. Thanks to the fact that we are a multidisciplinary and specialized team in different fields of the cultural and creative sector, and with extensive experience in cooperation and the third sector, both nationally and internationally, we have managed to make La Periférica cover different lines of action, from the conceptualization of own programs and projects, cultural management and production, as well as the dissemination and promotion of contemporary creation.
As cultural agitators, from La Periférica we conceive each project as a new seed to create, from horizontality and collaboration, a better world for everyone, promoting environmental and social sustainability we want to contribute to greater solidarity, at the glocal level. All these values cross and are transversal to the projects we carry out, from the contents to the management itself.
At La Periférica we always work as a team, in a democratic way, exercising listening as the main work tool. We partner, whenever possible, with other networks of professionals and institutions, associations, collectives, initiatives and projects with which we share visions, values and ways of doing to achieve objectives. Furthermore, we work with numerous public institutions with which our interests converge. From the creation in 2018 La Periférica -. Cultura Contermporánea Association works with the objective of contributing to the dissemination of art and culture, facilitating a wide offer to different types of publics and we think we can become a great asset to the network in our country.
The network, gives us the possibility to spread our values and mision and to get to work within a network, which is a key factor for us to get to a larger impact in a wider audience. It is really enriching for us to get to know other people working in other projects that share our values and try to find conexions to collaborate. This will allow us to grow in a sustainble way hand by hand. He would like to be able to apply to the opportunities that this network supplies, in order to create projects with a bigger impact in society.
