CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN CARTAGENA ZENU GOLD MUSEUM
• 9000 years before Christ: hunters garthered around the Sinu and San Jorge Rivers. • 6000 ybc: climate became warmer: • Formation of lakes and mangrove swamps around the rivers mouths. • 3000 ybc people began habitate the “concheros”, cultivate roots and vegetables and to produce pottery objects
ZENU GOLD MUSEUM: CERAMIC AND GOLD EXPOSITIONS • Zenu people lived above a net of rivers and swamps criss-crossed by artificial channels that drained the inundation waters. • The universe was a net above which living beings lied • The net was represented in the earmuffs and narigueras made in a technique called melted filigree that simulated a metallic net.
CARTAGENA MUSIC FESTIVAL • •
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January Each edition: specific theme presented with two perspectives “the old and the new world” 40 concerts in different patrimonial spaces
International artists: free magistral classes to Colombian young musics and proffesors. •
•Fellowships for students from different parts of the country: concert of young talents. • Luthería: children, young pleople, students, professionals and teachers of music learn about maintenance and repair of their instruments.
•Additionally: building workship gaitas and drums.