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Cultural Rights

Culture, Protagonist of Sustainable Development: Regional Consultation for MONDIACULT 2025

The Minister of Culture, María Eugenia Herrera, represented our country at the Regional Consultation of the UNESCO on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development, in preparation for MONDIACULT 2025. During his intervention, Herrera emphasized "that the National Plan of Cultures (PNC), designed to guide the development of the country from 2026 with a [...]

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MiCultura works with a national plan to strengthen public libraries in Panama

To diagnose the state of the buildings and evaluate the cultural programs of public libraries, the National Director of Cultural Rights and Citizenship, Katherine Bucktron, with her team, undertook a visit to several libraries in the provinces of Herrera and Los Santos. The Biblioteca Virgilio includes some of the libraries visited.

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The Fine Arts Schools will come back to the Ministry of Culture after approving a project at the third debate.

With the adoption at the Assembly's plenary session of the third issue of Project No. 79, only an executive sanction remains for 22 high educational and technical institutes of Fine Arts and Folklore, located throughout the country, to be returned to the scope of the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura).

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Young talent from The Network shows an interest in Lutheria

Highlights the talent of our youth from the Orquestas and Coros Network, we have mentioned Amilcar Castillo, who has been playing the violoncello for five years and currently a member of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra. He has had the privilege of participating in two editions of the Multinational Workshop of Lutheria from Ibericbranzo.

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Ministry of Culture coordinates actions to promote the right to read in provinces and communities

The Ministry of Culture (MiCultura) is undertaking a number of activities aimed at promoting reading, literary creativity, writing and orality at educational centers and libraries at Ngäbe Buglé, Coclé and Panama West, with the aim of guaranteeing access to the right to read throughout

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MiCultura Promotes Literary Expression Workshop for Older Adults

On September 18, the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura) opened the workshop of literary expression for older people entitled "Let's talk again," at the Hortencio De Ycaza Public Library, located at La Chorro. That initiative, by the writer and cultural promoter Carlos Fong, is designed to offer a creative space of exchange and

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The Ministry of Culture conducted public consultation with a view to familiarize itself with the social and employment realities of artists and cultural professionals.

Some 114 people from five provinces participated in the first public consultation organized by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with the Central American Cultural and Educational Coordination (CECC-SICA).

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My Culture conduct an evaluation tour to advance a modernization plan at Biblioteca de Coclé

The Ministry of Culture, through the National Directorate for Cultural Rights and Citizenship, led by the licensed Katherine Bucktron, conducted a work tour in the province of Coclé. Accompanied by his team and by the coordinator of the Network of Public Libraries, Olga de Cuevas, the tour had been aimed at

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MiCultura promotes dialogue to create national consultative processes in cultural policies.

To propose a path for consultative workshops at national level under the Central American Coordination of Education and Culture (CECC) are part of the principles of the Ministry of Culture of Panama, who through the National Cultural Rights and Citizenship Office aims to set up a clear and organized strategy for

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Young community Nele Kantele wins first place in the drawing contest "Mother Earth"

On June 12, the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura) with the SOS Albino Foundation awarded 14-year-old Agar Smith from Guna Yala and Axel Villarreal from 14 years old but from San Miguelito and 12-year-old Angie Jiménez from Tocumen with their first, second and second year-old prize.

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