Africa-Press – Angola. The Chiloango Cultural Centre, in Cabinda, will benefit from restoration works, within days, to make it more welcoming and financially profitable, confirmed the provincial secretary of Culture, Ernesto Barros André.
Speaking to the press, at the end of a visit that the governor of the province, Mara Quiosa, made to the Chiloango Cultural Center on Saturday to find out about the conditions of the property and its management, Ernesto Barros André stated that the Government could very soon rehabilitate that cultural enterprise, taking into account its state of degradation that requires an intervention to provide it with better accommodation conditions.
According to the head of Culture in the province, the holding of shows as well as other activities are almost conditioned at the Chiloango Cultural Center, due to the state of degradation in which it has reached, with emphasis on the roof that causes water infiltration in its interior causing damage to the infrastructure of the property.
Ernesto Barros André did not indicate the date for the start of the works, but according to Jornal de Angola, if they happen, it will be the third intervention that the Chiloango Cultural Center will benefit from, after the first that took place in 2003 and the second in 2014, the last contract having cost around five hundred thousand dollars, in an investment by the Government of the province of Cabinda, which included, in addition to the total rehabilitation of the property, technical and technological equipping.
Another difficulty pointed out by Ernesto Barros André, which conditions the normal operation of the Chiloango Cultural Center, has to do with the technical problem derived from the obsolete state of more than three thousand bearings that guarantee the automatic movement of seats (chairs) that are jammed.
The Chiloango Cultural Center is administered by the provincial secretary of Culture, which according to Ernesto Barros André does not have the budget to support the maintenance costs of the property.
The person in charge said that in order to keep the center functional they have used the funds raised by renting the space for private events in that venue.
“The Chiloango Cultural Center has no budget, it works with its own resources. The maintenance of the infrastructure is very expensive. The income we collect is insufficient to support our needs”, he lamented.
The Centro Cultural Chiloango, which until mid-2002 was a showroom (cinema) owned by a private entity, became after its first rehabilitation in 2003, a modern and multidisciplinary space, starting to host any type of ceremony , from conferences, cultural activities, banquets including weddings and galas, which have become the most popular.
Among other service areas, Chiloango has a commercial area with ten stores, three restaurants and a disco. It also has a film screening area and a music school, with all the equipment.
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