- A Chilean delegation, headed by the Creative Economy Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, will participate in the event in Lugo.
- The international meeting seeks to position creativity, art and culture as an engine for territorial development.
The 8th edition of the Forum of Creative Cities and Territories of Spain, an annual meeting organized by the Creative Spain Association that promotes the model of creative cities and territories, will be held from November 10 to 12.
A Chilean delegation composed of members of the National Network of Creative Territories of Chile and the Ministry of Culture will be representing the country at this international event.
Carolina Pereira, executive secretary of the Creative Economy Secretariat and Helen Urra, promotion coordinator of the Seremía de Cultura de Los Ríos, lead the delegation, which includes the following participants: Juan Hidalgo, Qiri Centro Tecnológico de Divulgación Multimedia; Mauricio Cifuentes, Valparaíso Creativo; Gladys Sandoval, Corporación Cultural de Peñalolén; Johann Bórquez, C3 Centro Creación Concepción; Ximena Nogueira, O'Higgins Crea; Pablo Witker, Chillán Ciudad Creativa; Gabriela Urrutia, Galería Barrios Bajos; José Feuereisen, Frutillar Ciudad Creativa.
The National Network of Creative Territories is a collaborative space whose main objective is to place culture and the creative economy at the center of local development, in order to contribute to Chile's sustainable development agenda. It is a network of territorial articulators that seeks to mobilize strategies to value and raise agendas that promote the development of culture and creative industries as a viable alternative for local development.
The participation of Chilean cultural agents will make it possible to show, through this international platform, how Chile and the specific territories represented by the cultural agents of the delegations are thinking about development from what are called "creative territories", that is, from places and communities that place creativity, art and culture at the center of local sustainable development, in which people coexist in a creative ecosystem that contributes significantly to social, economic and environmental progress.