The Dominican Commissioner of Culture announces the creation of new cultural programs

The Dominican Commissioner of Culture announces the creation of new cultural programs
New York, August 20, 2014

The office of the Dominican Commissioner of Culture in the United States announced the creation of several new cultural programs and events that will take place during the 2014-2015 period.

“Our goal is to disseminate all styles of Dominican poetry at the international level, and to create connections and friendly relations between Dominican poets and important poets throughout Ibero-America,”

Among the new cultural events is the Commissioner’s First Poetry Festival,which is scheduled to take place in the summer of 2015.

“Our goal is to disseminate all styles of Dominican poetry at the international level, and to create connections and friendly relations between Dominican poets and important poets throughout Ibero-America,” said Mr. Carlos Sánchez, the Dominican Commissioner of Culture. 

Another project that was deemed as transcendental by the office of the Commissioner of Culture was the creation of the Audiovisual Memory of the Art and Culture of the Dominican Diaspora, which will consist of the creation of historical documents, through the production of documentaries, focusing on the life and work of Dominican artists from the Dominican Republicwho live abroad.

“We, as an institution believe that, in addition to the audiovisual record of the culture and art in all its forms, it is the duty of cultural institutions to create, preserve and disseminate a lasting audiovisual memory of the artistic creators –writers, playwrights, painters…–, as a historical document that can be used for consultation and learning for present and future generations,” said Mr. Sánchez. 

The Dominican Commissioner of Culture in the United States will create the Commissioner’s Book Club as an incentive to promote further reading of Dominican books, especially of those authors that reside abroad.

“The objective of the book club consists of the promotion and sharing the experience of reading among the members of the club.On one hand, for the simple delight of reading quality literature, and on the other, to confront ideas and opinions regarding the work,which is mutually enriching and would be promoted by each and every one of the opinions shared by the participants,” said Mr. Sánchez.

In addition to this, in 2015 the Dominican Commissioner of Culture will celebrate its First Biennial of Visual Arts that is intended for artists of Quisqueyana diaspora and which will cover different forms of art such as paint, sculpture, photography, video art, and installations.

“We have various visual artists within our cultural community, and our goal is that the biennial event becomes a vehicle through which established artists will be able to project their work, as well as to become a motivational medium for the emerging artist generation,” said Sánchez.

The office of the Commissioner of Culture will also resume publishing the international art and culture magazine “Trama” and will launch the Commissioner’s Hispanic Theatre Festival magazine, which will cover the history of the festivals that are coordinated by this institution and will serve as a permanent archive on the Hispanic theatre events that take place in the United States and Puerto Rico.

“We are also painstakingly working on the creation of more cultural community links to expand our relationship with the cultural community and to create two-way bridges of collaboration,” said Sánchez.

Similarly, the Commissioner is currently updating and upgrading the Carlos Rodríguez Library,which will include digital copies of Dominican books (per prior agreement with the authors), so that they can be offered to readers through its web portal, which is currently under construction.

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The Dominican Commissioner of Culture in the United States is a cultural organization created by the Dominican government, through the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic. It was established to protect Dominican artists who reside in the United States, to offer the US Dominican diaspora a program of action that contributes to the preservation of national cultural values, and to steer the Dominican culture towards other Latin American communities that are established in North America.