ADES Santa Marta - Incentivizing the arts with youth

Published: September 12 2016

El equipo de ADES fortalece sus capacidades en la producción orgánica

Young people were the leaders of the Utopia Festival 2016, organized by ADES in Santa Marta.

The event, where more than 250 young people from Cabañas and Cuscatlán were found, called on the youth to build a better community.

The young participants are products of the leadership schools developed by ADES in the communities of Suchitoto, in Cuscatlán; and Guacotecti, Santa Marta and Victoria in Cabañas.

The Utopia Festival seeks to strengthen the creation of spaces for artistic expression and youth ideas that expose their abilities and skills in art and culture, emphasizing community history and identity.

Leadership organization and incidence

Throughout 23 years of community work, ADES Santa Marta has been accompanied by organizations, churches, national and international social groups, with whom, through cooperation and strategic partnerships, we have been able to carry out our community development initiatives.

The fields in which we have focused the most are education, community organizing and popular communication, solidarity economics, health, and organic agriculture.

Esther Ávalos Mesa

Invitation to the Utopia

I couldn’t avoid it. The famous words of Galeano were frolicking in my memory this Sunday as I attended the impressive Utopia Festival, brought to life by the Asociación de Desarrollo Económico y Social Santa Marta (ADES) and carried out by the youth from Cabañas and Cuscatlán. It took place in the Santa Marta Community Center.

Leadership, organization and incidence

Promote inclusive and horizontal leadership, with an emphasis on women and youth, that strengthen community organization. • Promote processes of political incidence, vindication of human rights and defense of the territories, in alliance with social movements.

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