Africa-Press – Angola. The Huambo Cultural Centre, under construction, will have a higher-level arts school for the academic and professional training of creators.
The fact was announced Friday, in statements to the press, by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Filipe Zau, at the end of a visit to the development to find out about the progress of the works, which began in 2011.
The infrastructure, whose works were resumed in 2022, after five years of stoppage, will consist of two cinema-theaters, two conference rooms, a space for the presentation of works of art, literature and music, two rooms for dance, an equal number for visual arts and handicrafts and one for exhibitions.
Once completed, it will also have 11 artistic and cultural specialty stores, a restaurant on the 2nd floor, overlooking the upper part of the city, two cafés facing the lower part of the city, support areas for actors and musicians during its stage exhibitions and two rooms for music classes.
Without going into details, the official, who works for two days in the central plateau to X-ray the sector he directs, said that the project aims to provide qualified training for students from different provinces in the country and abroad who intend to study the sciences of arts, in their varied specificities.
In this way, he continued, the intention is to respond to the challenges of specific training in culture which, in general, have been forgotten in various training projects in the country and, as a result, create, in the near future, a symphony orchestra to the province and one national.
According to the official, the city of Huambo has adequate conditions for promoting training in the various specificities of the arts, as it has several public and private higher education institutions, which can help in carrying out the project and, in the end, absorb the staff trained for the development of teaching, research and scientific research activities.
The minister also made it known that the initiative aims to develop art, through training, as well as the full functioning of the Huambo Cultural Centre, with the continuous realization and with the desired quality of cultural activities, in terms of music, theatre, dances , among others.
On the occasion, Filipe Zau was impressed with the current status of the Cultural Centre’s works, which register a degree of physical execution above 80 percent.
He pointed to August for its completion and inauguration, explaining that the changes made to the project, with the addition of other essential components for its full operation, made it not possible for it to be completed last February, as initially planned. .
“We think that with its entry into operation, in synchrony with other cultural infrastructures, added to the role of the existing kingdoms and ombalas in the province, Huambo could become, in a short period of time, a cultural capital of Angola”, predicted.
In another part of the interview, the minister admitted that it was necessary to create funds for the maintenance of the sector’s infrastructure in the country, in order to avoid its degradation and, as a result, guarantee its full functioning for the development of culture. national.
Lack of money conditions Huambo Museum works
The Minister of Culture and Tourism also visited the Huambo Regional Museum, whose requalification works have been paralyzed for over a year, due to lack of financial resources.
On the occasion, the minister made it known that the ministerial department he heads continues to seek funding for the resumption, soon, of the contract.
For this purpose, he said that the possibility of inscribing the work in the next General State Budget (OGE) of the province or of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism is being studied.
Still on the first day of his working day, the Minister of Culture and Tourism also verified the functioning of the Huambo Provincial Library, inaugurated in 2016, and held a meeting with the governor, Lotti Nolika, with whom he discussed, among various aspects, the administrative and budgetary management of the future cultural centre, as well as the approval of its organic status.
The agenda for the second and last day of his working day includes a visit to the province’s tourist attractions.
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