The District Institute of the Arts (Idartes) of Bogotá opened new calls for free music training workshops in different localities of the capital. They are aimed at young people and adolescents who want to explore their creativity, even without previous experience.
The offer includes training processes in rock, Brazilian percussion, vocal and instrumental ensembles, and DJing, with spaces designed for those who want to approach music for the first time, strengthen their skills, or create collectively with other people from the city.
The workshops do not require previous experience
One of the available processes is the rock music workshop at Crea Bosa San Pablo, aimed at young people between 17 and 25 years old. There, participants will be able to become part of a rock ensemble without the need for previous knowledge or a musical instrument. Sessions will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
For its part, Crea Tunal opened registration for its Brazilian batucada process, aimed at people between 15 and 30 years old. The space proposes an immersion into percussion rhythms and the collective energy of drums, through meetings on Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
The process does not require previous experience and seeks for participants to discover rhythm through the body, movement, and group work.
Likewise, at the Crea Fontanar training center, in the locality of Suba, registration is open for a vocal and instrumental ensemble aimed at young people between 18 and 23 years old.
The space is focused on the fusion of genres, collective creation, and the construction of a shared sound identity. People who sing, play instruments such as drums, piano, guitar, bass, or folk percussion may participate, as well as those who want to begin their musical process. Classes will be held on Mondays and Fridays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Added to this offer is the vocal-instrumental ensemble process at the Diego Felipe Becerra Youth House, also in Suba, a space for girls, boys, adolescents, and young people interested in learning music in a practical and collective way alongside teaching artists. Meetings will be held on Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Finally, Crea La Pepita, in the locality of Los Mártires, opened free DJ training workshops for people over 13 years old. There, participants will be able to explore synchronous mixing, harmonic mixing, and turntablism techniques, while finding new ways to express emotions and build narratives through musical language.
What the Crea program is
With these spaces, the Crea program continues strengthening scenarios for free artistic training in Bogotá, promoting gathering, collective creation, and young people’s access to cultural experiences in their territories.
The Crea program is a strategy that forms part of the 2024-2028 District Development Plan Bogotá Walks Safely, which supports strategic objective number three: Bogotá trusts in its potential.
The program was born in 2013 under the name CLAN, Local Arts Centers for Children and Youth, as a response to the need to contribute to better conditions for the quality of public education through the adaptation of infrastructure for artistic practices and the creation of an artistic training offer for children from the city’s public schools who entered the full-day school policy.
Currently, under a new name, the Crea Program has managed to reduce the citizenry’s training needs thanks to educational strategies in the field of the arts through three strategic lines: Art in School, Collective Impulse, and Art and Health, which strengthen the free exercise of citizens’ cultural rights and reinforce the development of public policies in the dimensions of the field.