CAF celebrates its 50th anniversary with the virtual concert "United for Music"
As part of the celebration of CAF's 50th anniversary, the institution will organise the virtual concert "United by Music", which will feature the participation of outstanding artists from a group of Latin American countries. A total of 15 artists from 15 countries in the region will perform a piece representative of their country and culture, recorded from their home. "Through this activity, we appeal to the feeling of integration and hope in Latin America to overcome the situation we are currently facing. Cultural expressions have always been part of CAF, and that is why we want to give this gift to the region," said Luis Carranza Ugarte, CAF's executive president.
The artists who will participate in the virtual concert are Juan Quintero (Argentina), Piraí Vaca, (Bolivia), Yamandú Costa (Brazil), Mariela Condo (Ecuador), Francisca Valenzuela (Chile), Martha Gómez, (Colombia), Lara Bello (Spain), Lila Downs (Mexico), Omar Alfanno (Panama), Anna Chase (Paraguay), Rosita Guzmán (Peru), Kees Dieffenthaller (Trinidad and Tobago), Covi Quintana (Dominican Republic), Rubén Rada (Uruguay), Rafael "Pollo" Brito (Venezuela).
- When: Friday 12 June 2020
- Time: 14:30h Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Peru / 15:30h Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela / 16:30h Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay / 21:30h Spain
- Where: Online, will be broadcast from this page: https://www.caf.com/es/actualidad/eventos/2020/06/concierto-unidos-por-la-musica/
50 years of contributions to development and culture
CAF - Latin American development bank - was born in the early 1970s with a capital of $25 million provided by the five founding countries (Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela). Today, there are 19 shareholder countries (including Spain and Portugal) and $8 billion in sucritus capital. Its historical evolution makes CAF one of the few success stories of Latin American integration.
In 50 years the organization has financed $188 billion in projects in water, electricity, housing, education, health, mobility and telecommunications that have improved the quality of life of millions of Latin Americans. These figures include $11 billion for 77 integration projects in the last 20 years. In the cultural sphere, CAF has set aside spaces for the dissemination of artistic expressions that are manifested in exhibition projects and help promote the creativity of artists from its member countries.
The CAF Gallery in Caracas has been the scene of more than 70 varied exhibitions and has become a space for different cultures since it began activities in 1995, to celebrate the XXV anniversary of the institution with the exhibition "Andean Painting". From 1996 until today, the CAF Gallery in Caracas has had a continuous program of high-level quarterly exhibitions. This program has been broad and versatile: from plastic arts such as painting, engraving, sculpture and photography to samples of gold work, crafts, radio, sports and toys.
In Bolivia, the Artespacio CAF gallery, located in the CAF building in La Paz, has promoted Bolivian culture since 2017 with exhibitions of paintings, photography, textiles and architecture by the country's most important artists of the 20th century, the 21st century and pre-Hispanic art. Works by international artists have also been exhibited. Since 2009, CAF has participated in the Long Night of Museums, a cultural event that allows the population to discover and meet the existing museum heritage. It is organized in the city of La Paz annually, during the month of May, by the Autonomous Municipal Government of the City of La Paz. This one gathers along its route dance, theater, music of diverse musical genres and another type of artistic expressions.
In Uruguay, since the inauguration of the new CAF building in 2018, located in the former Central Market of Montevideo, the cultural and social life of the city is also promoted. The new building houses the Cinemateca complex, which has three cinemas with capacity for 406 spectators and the spaces of the CAF Montevideo Gallery where two exhibitions have been held with Uruguayan artists. In this way, the permanent art collection at the CAF Galleries in Caracas, Bolivia and Uruguay is an exhibition of the main representatives of modern and contemporary art in Latin America and constitutes an effort to evolve and grow in order to reveal the richness and cultural diversity of the region.
