Malaga and its aspiration for a Casa de América
The shores of Spain and America could be brought even closer together thanks to the initiative being promoted in Malaga to found a Casa de América or Latin American Cultural Institute in the Andalusian city.
The main driving force and promoter of the proposal is José Antonio Sierra, a great Hispanist and a person with a 40-year career of disseminating Spanish culture and language in different destinations such as Ireland, where he created the Spanish Cultural Institute of Dublin.
This adventure began with the project to create the Latin American Cultural Circle of Malaga, which began in 2015 and is the germ of the current proposal whose main purpose is to create a House of America or Latin American Cultural Institute in Malaga in order to contribute to the promotion of relations between the capital of the Costa del Sol and Andalusia with Latin America, as well as with the Hispanic communities in the United States and Canada.
In 2021 the creation of an Executive Committee is planned for the development and aims of the Circle and the future Casa América. The aim of this project is to promote cultural, educational, artistic, touristic, sporting and commercial relations between the city and province of Malaga, as well as Andalusia, and all the countries of America.
With this challenge, the aim is to collaborate with institutions in Latin America, the United States and Canada, as well as with Latin American associations in Malaga and Andalusia.
Among the activities that would be carried out with this project would be the promotion of Spanish-American culture and bringing the Spanish and Latin American shores closer together to further strengthen the ties between the two communities. This could also serve to strengthen ties with another important shore of the Mediterranean, North Africa, since Latin America and the African continent are increasingly close, with Morocco as a prime example. Morocco has maintained intense contacts with various Latin American countries in recent times in order to bring positions closer and cooperate in various areas such as politics and economics. It is worth highlighting here, for example, the memorandum of understanding sealed a few weeks ago between Nasser Bourita, Morocco's foreign minister, and Colombian Foreign Minister Claudia Blum, with bilateral agreements in important sectors such as tourism.
The Círculo Cultural Latinoamericano de Málaga aims to develop important activities such as promoting knowledge of the languages and cultures of Latin America, organising congresses, meetings, seminars, conferences and any other cultural, educational or scientific activity.
In addition to promoting educational and cultural exchanges, developing academic programmes concerning Latin American culture, establishing channels to disseminate the current state of knowledge of Social and Human Sciences, Literature and Art in Latin America, contributing to Latin American integration through the dissemination of their scientific and artistic creations in Malaga and Andalusia, cooperating with Latin American associations and institutes in Spain and other countries, managing the creation of grants to facilitate research work on Malaga's relations with Latin America, collaborating to increase Malaga's cinematographic exchanges with Latin American countries, cooperating to achieve the dissemination of works of art and scientific works in Malaga and Andalusia, cooperating to increase Malaga's cinematographic exchanges with Latin American countries, cooperate to ensure the dissemination of works by Malaga and Andalusian writers in Latin America, disseminate Malaga's cultural offer in Latin America, as well as through the Spanish-language media and Latin American institutions and associations in the United States, promote the exchange of digital information, organise activities that contribute to the social, educational, cultural and employment integration of Latin American residents in the city and province of Malaga, disseminate activities related to the capital of the Costa del Sol and Andalusia that take place in Latin America, as well as those organised in Malaga and Andalusia by Latin American associations and institutions; and, finally, to request and take steps to achieve, in the short term, the creation of the Latin American Cultural Institute or Casa América in Málaga.
