Who the platform serves.
The Acarigua Chapter is designed to strengthen the people who produce, mediate, teach, research and sustain contemporary cultural life in Venezuela’s central-western region. Its direct beneficiaries include artists, cultural workers, young people and educators; its indirect beneficiaries include local communities, digital audiences, researchers and cultural institutions. The project has been submitted to the UNESCO IFCD 2026 call; this reference does not imply selection, endorsement or confirmed funding by UNESCO.
Four direct groups, one shared platform.
Artists
Visual artists and creators with active practices connected to memory, territory, displacement, diaspora, identity and cultural reconfiguration. The platform offers professional documentation, structured visibility, access to training and connection with local and digital audiences.
Cultural workers
Curators, mediators, archivists, producers, cultural managers and educators working in contexts beyond the capital. The program strengthens technical and methodological capacity so the regional ecosystem can sustain documentation, training, mediation and public access processes beyond the funding period.
Young people
Young participants from the central-western region who often have less access to contemporary art circuits, cultural training and institutional spaces. The platform includes them as active publics, mediation participants and future cultural agents.
Educators
Teachers, facilitators and community educators who can integrate the program’s content, methodologies and resources into their own educational work. The transfer of tools allows the impact to continue circulating after the initial project phase.
Expanded reach through public and digital resources.
Local communities
People and communities in Acarigua-Araure and Portuguesa State who access public activities, cultural mediation, educational content and participation spaces connected to the program.
Researchers
Researchers, university faculty and students who will be able to consult documentation, methodological materials and archive resources on Venezuelan contemporary culture from a regional perspective.
Cultural institutions
Museums, foundations, cultural centers and civil society organizations that may use the methodology, learnings and produced content as references for future cultural processes.
Digital audiences
Online audiences who will access public content, resources, training materials and open documentation, extending the program’s reach beyond the physical territory of implementation.
Inclusion is built into the way the platform works.
Geographic inclusion
The platform is intentionally based in Acarigua-Araure rather than Caracas. Strengthening cultural infrastructure outside the capital is a programmatic decision: it recognizes an interior territory, regional museum work, territorial education and cultural practices that often remain outside the country’s most visible cultural circuits.
Youth participation
Young people are not a secondary audience. They are central to the design: participating in mediation, training and access to cultural content, while being recognized as a generation capable of sustaining new forms of regional cultural life.
Public access and continuity
Inclusion becomes operational through open activities, reusable materials, accessible documentation and digital resources. The goal is not to produce a one-off event, but to leave capacities, content and tools that can continue to be used as part of a living archive connected to the region.