The vice-president of the Junta de Andalucía and president of the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo has inaugurated the cultural centre 'Fábrica de la Luz' in Chiclana de la Frontera.
The Vice-President of the Regional Government and Minister of the Presidency and Local Administration, Manuel Jiménez Barrios, stated that "when a cultural facility is inaugurated, a stone is always being laid in the right direction, in the sense that economic growth must go hand in hand with the soul of our people". In this sense, he explained that if a public official "works to ensure that his town grows from the point of view of wealth and employment, and does not work to ensure that it grows from the point of view of the cultural enrichment of its people, he would be mistaken". This is what he said during the inauguration of the 'Fábrica de la Luz' cultural centre in Chiclana de la Frontera.
The inauguration ceremony was also attended by the mayor of Chiclana, José Mª Román, the delegate of the Government of Andalusia in Cádiz, Fernando López Gil, and the president of the Provincial Council of Cádiz, Irene García.
The vice-president said that the development in Andalusia over the last 20 years has been accompanied by "growth and enrichment of our people from the cultural point of view" and stressed that "Chiclana has not been alien to this process". In this sense, he thanked the corporations and their mayors for "having been able to raise the level" of the city's cultural facilities and, together with the Fábrica de la Luz, he referred to the opening of a "first class" theatre and the extension of the Casa de Cultura, among other facilities.
Exhibition 'Seeds of the New Morocco'.
The centre is located on a municipal plot of 512.71 square metres in Segismundo Moret Street. It has three floors, totalling some 800 square metres in total, where there are exhibition halls, multi-purpose rooms, as well as administrative spaces. In one of the rooms, the exhibition 'Seeds of the new Morocco', organised by the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation, which Jiménez Barrios presides, was inaugurated. The director of the Foundation, José Manuel Cervera, accompanied the visit to the exhibition, which will remain in the Cadiz town until 10 January.
Since 2012, the photographic exhibition, together with the exhibition 'Faces of the new Morocco', has been an essential part of the cultural programme of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation, both in the context of the European MENARA project - in which they were conceived - and in the framework of the Morocco 2014 project and its cultural programme.
The exhibition 'Seeds of the New Morocco' has toured various venues in Andalusian cities, such as the Museum of Cádiz, and the Andalusian Regional Centres of Radio Televisión de Andalucía in Granada, Almería and Málaga. In Morocco, it could be visited at the Cervantes Institute in Tetouan.
Now, on the occasion of the inauguration of the La Fábrica de la luz Centre in Chiclana, it arrives in this city of Cádiz with the aim of improving knowledge of the circumstances in which migratory movements between the north of Morocco and the south of Andalusia take place, as well as the objective of opening a space for reflection on the presence and life of Moroccan citizens in Andalusia.
The exhibition is a visual story through which the viewer approaches the world of four young Moroccan students who moved to Andalusia, separating from their families in their country of origin, to pursue their university studies in the south of Spain and thus continue their academic training. Through the images and texts that make up this audiovisual exhibition, the motivations of these students are presented, their aspirations, but also, as happens to many Andalusian students, the nostalgia of being far from home.
Their stories represent effort, personal and professional capacity, as well as a lifestyle not very different from that of many Andalusian citizens. But they also offer a portrait of a Moroccan society and a social context of Moroccan-Andalusian immigration that is much more in line with reality and far removed from stereotypes.
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