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Consejo Nacional de Casas de Cultura



The Consejo Nacional de Casas de Cultura was founded in 1991 and named National Centre for Cultural work in National Communities. In 1994 the name was modified in National Centre of Community Culture, and now it is known as Consejo Nacional de Casas de Cultura.




FUNCTIONS

  • Contribute to culturally enrich the population by applying the principles of social participation, established by the cultural policy.


  • Try to increase social participation by strengthening and stimulating the cultural community interests.


  • Work to preserve and foster the cultural traditions of the community by absorbing the most significant aspects of national and universal cultures.


  • Contribute to form ethic and aesthetic values in children and adolescents. Pay attention to the groups that devote themselves to this activity in the Government and non Government institutions.


  • Support the artistic working expectations within the National Education System.


  • Increase the sensitiveness and appreciation of our (meglio Cuban) people towards artistic and literary events


  • Transmit through courses, stages and seminars the socio-cultural animation work, thus improving the technical-scientific and professional level of the staff, the teachers and the professors in the National Education System and of other personalities involved in this field.


  • Educate to a more cultured and aware use of free time by developing the creative potentialities of the different social classes.


  • Promote and coordinate the active participation of the cultural institutions, social organizations and others to establish the Centre’s development programme in order to achieve other common objectives and provide socio-cultural perspective.