London


::::: ACULCO :::: The Cultural Association For Colombia And Latin America :::::

::: 53ª Clapham High Street, London SW4 7TG Tfno: 020 7622 7080 :: E_mail: londres@aculco.org :::

The Cultural Association For Colombia and Latin America in the uk, aculco london, is part of an international network of non profitable organizations with offices in england, spain and colombia. In these current times, given the large scale of migration, we are compelled to work with a multicultural vision. That is why aculco london is currently working for the creation of social and cultural spaces for the latin american inmigrants in europe and thereby becoming a voice for the benefit of that community.

Aculco london is also to be a space of the analisis of the latin american countri es’ socio economical and political reality.

Aculco london focuses on the following areas:

1-Cultural

Promoting events such as festivals, latinamerican music concerts, dance, painting and art exhibition.

2-Education

Diffusion of the latin american culture through the following projects: spanish lessons for adults; acyl’s programme “spanish after school” for children aged 5 to 11 and “let’s support a school in a latin american country”.

3-Develop co-operation

We will achieve this by acting as a link between european and latin american countries and by means of being a centre for management and administration of resources for the promotion of social and cultural projects.

4-International relations

Organizing seminars, forums and international meetings.

Promoting the networks of latin americans abroad.

5-IT magazine (tiempo iberoamericano)

Monthly magazine with an analysis of latin american current affairs and also articles of common interest which help to keep up to date the latin american community living within the european union.

Projects wich are already working

1- Acyl, with acyl we have started one of our most ambitious projects: asas, anglo spanish after school. It is a private school situated in the heart of clapham, london, which sends native and qualified teachers of spanish to schools in the area. The idea is to teach the pupils right after their lessons.

In the short run students do notice not only an academic improvement but a personal one.

The first school which realized about the importance of the project started with the spanish lessons in january 2004. Just a couple of months after we can say that the project is already a success and that nowadays we have 5 schools and 50 children alredy enjoying the benefits of speaking another language.

2-Spanish for adults

With this school we try to make come true our deam of an ethnical integration in london, no matter age, religion, race, etc.

Since spanish is one of the most spoken languages worldwide our students get the reward of communicating without barriers with spanish speakers. This happens in the professional field as well as in the recreational field. It provides personal fullfilment and the benefits of speaking another language are transmitted from generation to generation.

3- IT (Tiempo Iberoamericano Magazine)

Monthly magazine with an analisis of latin american current affairs and also articles of common interests wich help keep up to date the latin american community within the european union.

Projects to be defined in the near future

In the social area we are currently cooperating in the organization of a popular gay festival in clapham, queen of clapham 2004, wich will get together not only people from the area but also guests and participants from all over london.

In an international field we are organizing the first international congress in london based on latinamerica. Landmarks of the past decades which contributed to our present will be seen and studied from an academic point of view.

The opening of aculco paris, in order to potenciate our labour we believe more branches will improve the efficiency of our duty wolrdwide.

Other projects include:

Help develop and support the cultural profile of latin american people in london

Create a latin american party. This should reflect and respect the feeling, thougths and ideology of the “latino” when abroad.

Since we believe that education is the best investment in the future, aculco london is comitted to help a school in a latin america. In this way we will be doing our bit in order to educate the men and women of tomorrow.