Santander Cultural
Santander is a cultural institution of Santander Brazil, formed by the banks Santander and Real, focused on the integration and dissemination of the diversity of languages and artistic-cultural. Committed to contemporary culture, with the knowledge and the socio-economic development, operates in the fields of visual arts, music, film and reflection. Committed to the integration of various social, Santander Cultural works through strategic partnerships with areas of cultural production in Brazil and internationally.
Since its inception in 2001, Santander Cultural showed 20 major exhibitions of visual arts, thousands of screenings, festivals, seminars and courses, and hundreds of concerts, workshops and masterclasses. There were 28 000 operations in seven years, coupled with over a thousand models of partnerships an audience of about 3 million people - equivalent to approximately 1200 visitors per day. The educational actions, specifically, in this period had the participation of 412 000 students and teachers.
Shares in Santander Cultural allow the partnership to promote culture, education and citizenship from Porto Alegre, in line with the main socio-cultural movements worldwide, with emphasis on social responsibility and the pursuit of sustainability. In the first half of 2008 held its 18th exhibition of visual arts, FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, in partnership with Hi Future, which occurred simultaneously in Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre.
And has also promoted, the show TRANSFER_cultura urban. contemporary art. transfers. Transformations, which proposed a reflection on the culture produced in the streets of cities, both in Brazil and in other parts of the world and brings together key icons of urban art. Shows Gilberto Freyre - Performer of Brazil and Ariano Suassuna: Iluminogravuras - Aesthetics Armorial, which opened in November 2008, showed a design innovation of exposure to the general public from the works and careers of thinkers and writers. The shows remain on display until February 2009.
Among the visual arts exhibitions held throughout these seven years, it is worth noting, too, the first major exhibition of contemporary art produced in recent years the collection of Gilberto Chateaubriand (Today is the Brazilian Contemporary Art) and the show with 200 works of Catalan artist Joan Miró (! Miró fancy!).
Cultural Santander is housed in a historic building in the heart of the capital city, the Square Customs. A building in neoclassical style of 5,600 m2, dated 1932, was elected in 2008 by popular vote as the most significant architectural heritage of Porto Alegre.
A successful strategy for the management of associative Santander Cultural - to form alliances with several segments of society, playing the role of an institution of the third sector as an agent of integration and social development - has been recognized by the 2007 Top Marketing Award in the category Segment Market / Culture in Rio Grande do Sul, in addition to other awards.
Have an educational focus and transfer of knowledge present in all activities of the institute was recognized by the 2008 World Summit Creatitvity carried out in Taiwan (China) in early June, such Latin American example of how creativity, culture and arts in education can contribute to the development of strategies to meet the global challenges of our time. The initiative is organized by the World Alliance for Arts Education, and involves the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) among other institutions.
Address: Rua Sete de Setembro 1028, Praça da Alfândega, interssection with Rua General Câmara, Porto Alegre
Phone number: (51) 3287-5500
homepage: http://www.santandercultural.com.br/
Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, from 10am to 7pm; Weekends and holidays from 11am to 7pm
Admission Fees: FREE admission
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Address: Rua Sete de Setembro, 1028, Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilActivities near to Santander Cultural
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| Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul (museum) - The idea of creating an institution that emphasized the gaucho culture emerged between 1995 and 1996, being implemented through a partnership between federal and state governments in September 1996. It was agreed at that time that the headquarters of the post office for almost a century, would house a place of dissemination of culture and memory Rio Grande. The agreement for transfer of the building also led the creation of a Post... Address: Rua Sete de Setembro 1020, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil Distance: 0.00km from the Santander Cultural |  |
| Porto Alegre Public Market (market) -
Historical and Cultural Heritage of Porto Alegre, the Central Market opened in 1869 to house the trade supply of the city. Listed as a cultural object, it has become an icon of the shopping capital of the state.
The market has today 110 establishments, with the following activities:
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| Mário Quintana House of Culture (museum) -
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| Mother´s Day in Porto Alegre (festival) -
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| Nossa Senhora Aparecidas Holiday (festival) - On October 12, to celebrate three dates, but few remember them all: Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil's official patron, Children's Day and the Discovery of America. Our national holiday, however, is due only to the first date, and although the devotion to the Saint dates back to the eighteenth century gone, was only enacted in 1980.
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Restaurants near to Santander Cultural
Café do Cofre is a Coffee House restaurant that is roughly 0.00km from Santander Cultural and can be found at R. Sete de Setembro, 1028
Serving breakfast and sandwiches, the Café is safe meeting place for lovers of art exhibitions, film and other cultural attractions. The coffees can be served with liqueurs, port wine, cream and even whiskey.Moeda Bar e Restaurante is a International restaurant that is roughly 0.00km from Santander Cultural and can be found at Rua Sete de Setembro, 1028
Located at Santander Cultural center in Porto Alegre, Coin Bar and Restaurant has an unusual decoration for being where they were formerly the vaults of the old bank. Keeping this structure in the Currency serves lunch buffet with 11 kinds of salads, 10 hot dishes, desserts and six options. The cuisine is international and diverse cuisine...Café do Margs is a Coffee House restaurant that is roughly 0.01km from Santander Cultural and can be found at Rua Sete de Setembro, 1010
Always in tune with the museum exhibition, Café Margs creates the pies according to the artists in the spotlight. As always lunch is served two options for a hot dish and salad buffet. In late afternoon the place is full of downtown workers who go in search of a good coffee or wine ACA.
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