ONLINE EVENT | Popular culture, creative economy and local development
Within the framework of the CLXXX CAF Directory of 2023, CAF - development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean - and the Prefecture of Rio de Janeiro invite you to participate in the discussion "Popular culture, creative economy and local development".
We recognize in the Rio de Janeiro Carnival a significant case of creative economy and successful model for exporting. “Popular culture, creative economy and local development” is the enhancement of popular festivals within creative economies, regenerative tourism and the social cohesion of cities. Likewise, CAF will present its “CAF Strategy for Creative and Cultural Economies 2023/2026”, as part of our commitment to recognize the complementarity of economic and cultural aspects in sustainable development.
Event date:
December 07, 2023
Online
In recent years, relevant forums of the international system such as the G20, OECD, UNCTAD and UNESCO, Mondiacult, among others, have highlighted the need to revalue the cultural variable and its influence on multiple areas of life in a heterogeneous, hyperconnected world, en crisis and increasingly digitized.
In this sense, the “CAF Strategy for Creative and Cultural Economies 2023/2026” seeks to boost and strengthen cultural and creative economies, contributing to the achievement of more resilient, inclusive, sustainable, productive and competitive territories. Furthermore, the objective is to increase the value of creative economies and reaffirm the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, as stated in the 2005 UNESCO Convention. However, the challenges for the Creative and Cultural Economies in the region still manifest high levels of informality, low investment in innovation and precarious employment.
This event, which will take place in parallel to the last CAF Directory of 2023, will bring together public and private institutions linked to cultural and creative economies, as well as artists and civil society organizations in Río de Janeiro and Brazil. The event was also attended by delegates from the Carnivals of Montevideo (the widest in the world) and Barranquilla, which in 2003 also received from UNESCO the nomination of “Obra Maestra del Patrimonio Oral e Intangible de la Humanidad”, in addition to members of other popular festivals in the region.
The presentation of these popular festivals has a central message: culture generates economy. These highly symbolic cultural practices, based on the intellectual, creative and emotional capacities of their populations, have an economic impact on cities. Ultimately, culture has strategic importance for the social context, public policies and sustainable development.
Rio's carnival is more than a city brand, it is a world reference where the cultural and creative act produces externalities every year: more than 120 samba schools, 600 registered street carnival blocks, 20,000 workers at the sambódromo and providers of tourist services, 18,000 municipal employees, 45,000 workers during the event, press and digital media coverage, 864 hours of artistic and physical preparation, as well as several neighborhoods that work throughout the year around Carnival. In this sense, the activity “Popular culture, creative economy and local development” is an invitation from CAF to generate better associations and a positive South-South political dialogue between national, local governments, artists and managers that promotes Creative and Cultural Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Date: December 7, 2023
Time:
3:30 pm Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras time
4:30 pm Colombia time, Ecuador, Panama
5:30 pm Bolivia time, Dominican Republic, Venezuela
6:30 pm Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay time
The event will be broadcasted through this microsite
Program
Day 1
December 07, 2023
Opening remarks
Speakers:
Eduardo Cavaliere
Municipal Secretary of the Civil House of the Mayor's Office of Rio de Janeiro
Sergio Díaz-Granados
Executive President, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Colombia
Eduardo Cavaliere
Municipal Secretary of the Civil House of the Mayor's Office of Rio de Janeiro
Sergio Díaz-Granados
Executive President, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Colombia
Sergio Díaz-Granados has extensive experience in public and private service, both nationally and internationally, with special emphasis on regional development and integration issues. Before assuming the presidency of CAF, he served as Executive Director for Colombia at the Inter-American Development Bank. He previously held the positions of Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia, Vice Minister of Business Development and President of the Boards of Directors of Bancóldex and ProColombia. He also has been a congressman and chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Colombia’s House of Representatives.
PRESENTATION – CAF Strategy for Creative and Cultural Economics.
Speakers:
Ángel Cárdenas
General manager of urban development, water and creative economies, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Ángel Cárdenas
General manager of urban development, water and creative economies, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Manager of urban development and creative economies for CAF- Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-. He previously served as a director for the energy projects for the South Region at CAF. Angel Cardenas is an Eisenhower Fellow at Eisenhower Fellowships, a forum that brings leaders from around the world to spend several weeks meeting with experts in their fields of interest throughout the US in the spirit of making the world more peaceful, prosperous, and just. Cardenas has worked for the World Bank, Universidad Central de Venezuela, and the University of Toronto.
PRESENTATION – Why is it carnival all year round?
Speakers:
Nilton Cadeira
Vice Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
Nilton Cadeira
Vice Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
PANEL / DIALOGUE – Managers, governments and development banks: a new alliance is born.
Moderator: Ángel Cárdenas Sosa. Urban Development Manager, Water and Creative Economies, CAF-development bank for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Speakers:
Ryan Straughn
Minister of Economy and Finance, Barbados.
Sandra Gómez
Manager of the Carnaval de Barranquilla
Ramiro Pallares
President of the Montevideo Carnival jury
Rafaela Bastos
President of the João Goulart Fundation.
Lucrecia Cardoso
Vice Minister of Culture of Argentina
Luciane Gorgulho
Urban Development, Heritage and Tourism of the BNDES
Ryan Straughn
Minister of Economy and Finance, Barbados.
Is an economist, a past President of the Barbados Economics Society and a former analyst at the Central Bank, where he was in charge of modelling the macroeconomic business cycle and assessing the stability of the financial system for more than 10 years. In the 2018 general election, he successfully contested the Christ Church East Central seat for the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) becoming a member of Parliament and being appointed Minister in the Ministry of Finance. He holds a BSc Economics & Mathematics degree (UWI) with First Class Honours, MSc Econometrics degree (Manchester) and is a trained National Accounts statistician (IMF Institute).
Sandra Gómez
Manager of the Carnaval de Barranquilla
Ramiro Pallares
President of the Montevideo Carnival jury
Rafaela Bastos
President of the João Goulart Fundation.
Lucrecia Cardoso
Vice Minister of Culture of Argentina
Luciane Gorgulho
Urban Development, Heritage and Tourism of the BNDES
Closing remarks
Speakers:
Chicão Bulhões
Secretary of Urban and Economic Development of the City of Rio de Janeiro.
Christian Asinelli
Corporate Vicepresident of Strategic Programming, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Argentina
Chicão Bulhões
Secretary of Urban and Economic Development of the City of Rio de Janeiro.
Christian Asinelli
Corporate Vicepresident of Strategic Programming, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Argentina
Christian Asinelli is a political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Policy from the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) and postgraduate degrees in Urban Economics (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and in Sociourbana Management (FLACSO). In 2019, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from the National University of San Martín (Argentina). During the last sixteen years he has been appointed in different roles in the public sector and the international arena: Alternate National Director of the State Modernization Project at the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2005); Deputy of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2007-2010); Undersecretary of Evaluation of Projects with External Financing of the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2011-2014); Corporate Director of Institutional Development of CAF (2014-2017); President of the Fundación Banco Ciudad (2019) and Undersecretary of International Financial Relations for Development, Secretariat of Strategic Affairs, Presidency of the Nation. He was a Fellow of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program (2010), the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies-MIT (2011) and the Singularity University Executive Program (2017). He is the author of the books Buenos Aires: The city we have, the city we want (Buenos Aires, 2009); Modernization of the Argentine State: policies, management and professional scene (Buenos Aires, Edition, 2015) and Financing Development: The role of multilateral banking in Latin America (Buenos Aires, 2021).
