Colonia Nicolich: Culture and Leisure

Colonia Nicolich can be explored for trip planning through its specific cultural and leisure offerings. Plaza Fraternidad, Centro Cívico Nicolich and Polideportivo are connected with different activities; there is also a youth program with a specific date and a cultural course offering from previous years. This brings together examples of visual arts, music and photography, as well as leisure and sports activities. The dates range from a single event day to a year-long offering, each giving the examples its own context.

Culture and past offerings

As part of the youth program “Delivery de juventudes,” community sculpture, percussion, expressive dance, a photography exhibition and muralism took place on November 11, 2016, at 2 p.m. at Plaza Fraternidad, Escuela N° 264 and the pedestrian route at Rotonda Emaplme Nicolich. The program brought together visual arts, music, movement and photography. It took place at three different locations; Plaza Fraternidad was one of them. This dated event thus brought several art forms and different venues together.

The cultural course offering in Colonia Nicolich in 2018 included basket weaving with willow and paper, decorative painting, and guitar. The activities combined handicrafts, visual arts and music. Unlike the youth program, these were course topics offered over the course of a year, not program items for a single event day. Willow and paper were specified as materials for basket weaving; painting and guitar complemented the handicraft with other creative disciplines.

Photography featured in two different contexts: it was part of the youth program “Delivery de juventudes”; in addition, the photography exhibition “Nakba 75” was on display at Centro Cívico Nicolich until September 29. Photography was one of several forms of expression in the youth program, while “Nakba 75” was a separate, limited-time exhibition. The two examples therefore differ both in form and in timeframe.

Places for culture and leisure

Plaza Fraternidad covers an area of 1,700 square meters and was also one of the venues for the 2016 youth program. This gives two different perspectives for understanding the plaza: its area and its role in a specific cultural event. The area in square meters makes the size of the plaza tangible; its connection to the event links it to a past artistic program.

Young people and adults take part in leisure and sports activities at the Polideportivo de Colonia Nicolich. This adds a distinct leisure and sports dimension to the cultural examples. Unlike the dated events and course offering, the focus here is not on a single date, but on participation in leisure and sports activities. These different areas thus complement one another in presenting Colonia Nicolich, without the information suggesting that they were part of a single event program.

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