Second Palm Exhibit

PALM REGION DIALOGUES
Cultural Program of FEDEPALMA

The experience we enjoyed during the First Palm Exhibit has provided us much satisfaction and many memorable events.
The first was to verify that the event was understood and enjoyed by both professional and local artists (and many useful and delicious visits were made to several plantations).

The second, also very important, was the sensation that the palm-growing communities participated in the event with great pleasure and enthusiasm, expressing their own voices.

This is what we would like to build upon in this second round: We believe that the First Palm Exhibit has opened a new path that we can confidently tread upon. We intend to enrich the dialogue we started with the understanding that the works displayed by the artists are a bridge towards opening new relationships, insights and knowledge. Our country is immensely rich in its cultural diversity, and each palm-growing region has its own unique cultural essence that we believe is possible to discover and reveal through art and the images created by artists who are members of the communities and who see them from an insider’s perspective. It is in this exchange of perspectives that we can find a real possibility of communication and understanding. This exchange benefits all program participants in many ways, and promotes invaluable ties of solidarity.


CONVOCATION
March of 2006
Palms and Landscapes – Second Palm Exhibit

The cultural program of FEDEPALMA, Dialogues of the Palm-Growing Regions, invites all companies affiliated to FEDEPALMA to sponsor the participation of their personnel in the landscape workshops to be held with artists in the different palm-growing regions. The workshop is directed by an artist who is a professional in plastic arts from the nearest city to the plantations, with experience in didactic workshops.

The paintings produced by these workshops will be presented at the Second Palm Exhibit.

The exhibit will be presented in Cartagena from September 19th to 22nd, during the XV International Conference on Palm Oil.