WEBVTT 00:00:09.306 --> 00:00:15.124 La Fábrica Cultural is a project with different areas, with training areas for 00:00:15.134 --> 00:00:20.386 all types of dance, music, theater, and other workshops; 00:00:21.236 --> 00:00:28.819 another part has shows with live music, theater, puppets, movies, 00:00:28.835 --> 00:00:32.221 the programming is very diverse and we also have a restaurant. 00:00:32.318 --> 00:00:34.492 But we don't work there. 00:00:36.328 --> 00:00:39.827 There are two of us, we both studied film, we opened in July of 2009. 00:00:40.121 --> 00:00:49.108 It started from a get together, as well as the dream of, or more like 00:00:49.214 --> 00:00:52.776 the intention of starting a cultural center, a cultural center 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:57.821 with workshops and small shows , we decided to do 00:00:58.176 --> 00:01:00.648 all of this in two months. 00:01:01.109 --> 00:01:06.763 This place used to be a pharmacy, it went bankrupt one day and since then 00:01:06.792 --> 00:01:08.330 we’ve been renting the space. 00:01:09.890 --> 00:01:11.280 Attendees from all of Córdoba, 00:01:11.299 --> 00:01:17.999 are between 18 and 35 years old, 00:01:18.107 --> 00:01:22.507 depending on the type of show that we're having. 00:01:23.094 --> 00:01:27.772 What we’re looking for is social diversity to be a meeting point in our space. 00:01:27.978 --> 00:01:30.452 that is what we are looking for. 00:01:33.024 --> 00:01:38.453 We are a non-profit organization. Being just the two of us, 00:01:38.665 --> 00:01:45.909 Meetings aren't tedious, they are lengthy discussions. It’s really good 00:01:46.035 --> 00:01:52.137 because we compliment each other's potential. I'm in charge 00:01:52.267 --> 00:01:57.917 the artistic side of things. I coordinate the shows and day to day activities 00:01:58.109 --> 00:02:02.006 that happen. We are open from Wednesday to Saturday, and for all workshops. 00:02:02.547 --> 00:02:08.108 My partner Matías takes care of all of the parts that I find boring, which 00:02:08.264 --> 00:02:13.757 I don't understand, all of the structural and financial aspects… 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:19.953 We work with a lot of independent producers, many from Córdoba and at 00:02:20.145 --> 00:02:25.510 national level as well. I believe that it’s really interesting because 00:02:25.646 --> 00:02:31.267 novel ideas came from that. Today we work with around, I don’t know, 00:02:31.707 --> 00:02:37.997 10 to 15 producers on a monthly basis who are developing their own space. 00:02:38.192 --> 00:02:45.389 A percentage of ticker sales, or publicity 00:02:45.519 --> 00:02:52.108 agreements is divided – we try and divide the income equally. 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:59.725 We work with, well, with a website that controls everything 00:02:59.918 --> 00:03:06.562 because once the information is finalized it goes to 00:03:06.783 --> 00:03:11.479 the page, from the page it goes to a a printer that works with us. 00:03:11.797 --> 00:03:12.792 It works very well. 00:03:13.594 --> 00:03:16.099 There is a girl dedicated to internet marketing with 00:03:16.544 --> 00:03:18.487 social networks like 00:03:18.499 --> 00:03:22.177 Facebook, Twitter, and also email marketing, we have a big data base 00:03:22.299 --> 00:03:27.253 with 25,000 people more or less, that does a lot for us. 00:03:27.638 --> 00:03:33.568 And this year we’ve started a magazine that will be printed in the daily paper 00:03:33.568 --> 00:03:38.711 with the monthly programming schedule, we were printing 5,000 00:03:38.902 --> 00:03:43.498 copies, we distributed them all over town, from the university, to all 00:03:43.661 --> 00:03:49.502 of the cultural and social hubs, that basically work from the center, in 00:03:49.674 --> 00:03:53.371 books stores, and later with flyers. 00:03:54.106 --> 00:03:57.662 Because there were only a few people it cost us a lot to coordinate it all. 00:04:00.469 --> 00:04:07.126 Yeah, I think you can say so, after 3 years I believe it cost us a lot, it’s 00:04:07.283 --> 00:04:12.422 a long process to maintain it, it takes a lot of effort, 00:04:13.522 --> 00:04:21.618 it took us a long time and many hours, to get where we are, to think about how, 00:04:21.777 --> 00:04:30.931 it’s always the most difficult, when you talk about sustainability, but we 00:04:31.288 --> 00:04:40.311 worked, and worked, and searched, and I believe that now, we found 00:04:40.571 --> 00:04:46.812 a middle ground where, we are satisfied with the 00:04:46.842 --> 00:04:48.231 work that we are doing. 00:04:48.854 --> 00:04:50.845 At all our artistic events 00:04:51.104 --> 00:04:59.070 we always have a bar, that's like the income, basically 00:04:59.325 --> 00:05:05.819 our only income. Income also comes from our workshops, 00:05:05.979 --> 00:05:11.281 this year we will have between 25 and 30 workshops, 00:05:11.568 --> 00:05:19.557 we also work with the teachers, 70% goes to the teacher and 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:23.229 30% stays here. The agreement that we have today 00:05:23.229 --> 00:05:30.804 for productions is varied, not really an agreement, and a lot is in the middle of 00:05:30.962 --> 00:05:36.094 the press, designs, but they are all productions of our shows. 00:05:36.388 --> 00:05:43.749 The producer or the artists take 00:05:43.940 --> 00:05:48.543 one hundred percent of the tickets, and we keep 00:05:48.543 --> 00:05:49.896 the money from the bar. 00:05:51.109 --> 00:05:53.061 Until today we were not against it at all 00:05:53.512 --> 00:05:59.974 but we don’t take external funding, it is a short term goal, but 00:06:00.333 --> 00:06:10.280 we don't want the space to depend on that, because of, well, nothing, 00:06:10.513 --> 00:06:16.518 we know the day that that doesn't exist we must continue working. 00:06:19.246 --> 00:06:26.893 We work with a lot of projects that are, well, 00:06:27.245 --> 00:06:31.866 ideological exchange most of all, we work with other spaces and organizations, 00:06:32.035 --> 00:06:36.845 also with the university, there’s a program in particular 00:06:37.219 --> 00:06:41.570 with an exchange that interested both of us. 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:47.996 We work with a lot of work groups for different activities and 00:06:48.217 --> 00:06:51.332 we communicate a lot with other spaces in our city, 00:06:51.556 --> 00:06:55.724 or we make productions together as well, that also lets us know what 00:06:55.916 --> 00:07:00.578 is happening on the other side, so we have a good relationship with the other 00:07:00.681 --> 00:07:03.052 spaces, but for now they are informal. 00:07:05.661 --> 00:07:11.340 The talent in Córdoba is incredible, I study film so from that point of view 00:07:11.665 --> 00:07:16.512 I was already fascinated by the production that was in 00:07:16.644 --> 00:07:22.523 Córdoba that seemed very interesting, the knowledge of, from visual artists 00:07:22.744 --> 00:07:31.902 music, theater, film, I don't know the organizations that exist 00:07:32.063 --> 00:07:38.772 that work in the neighborhoods, the puppet show networks, there are a lot of them, 00:07:39.063 --> 00:07:44.877 so many shows, so many artists, in fact we have 00:07:45.069 --> 00:07:49.192 a lot of shows from Buenos Aires and they do very well here. 00:07:52.116 --> 00:07:57.726 The legal part, well, all the different parts of the association cost us a lot, 00:07:57.929 --> 00:08:04.958 everything to do with authorization, but nothing, there’s nothing, when you 00:08:05.092 --> 00:08:12.126 know nothing about this side of things, there’s nothing to do but look into it, 00:08:12.448 --> 00:08:20.616 and there are things that they don't tell you and you have 00:08:20.902 --> 00:08:25.330 to just do them, with the schedule too, it happened on the artistic side at first, 00:08:25.498 --> 00:08:33.812 finding a line of work that you don’t know 00:08:34.006 --> 00:08:39.975 it’s the hardest, but there was never a time 00:08:40.197 --> 00:08:45.917 when we had to close because of difficulty. 00:08:47.372 --> 00:08:51.025 We spoke to the neighbors a lot, and since then we still do. 00:08:51.281 --> 00:08:54.619 We had meetings with the building occupants, we went and 00:08:54.876 --> 00:08:58.577 told them about the project, it’s not like talking to just anyone, it’s like 00:08:58.799 --> 00:08:59.987 another neighbor. 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:06.053 "Tercer lugar" has the goal of working with people with disabilities. 00:09:06.471 --> 00:09:11.834 They formed this group and started working twice a week 00:09:11.998 --> 00:09:20.589 to create workshops and a monthly event, called 00:09:20.771 --> 00:09:26.232 "La Matiné" which happens on Saturday evenings, it’s a party, with live bands 00:09:26.458 --> 00:09:34.171 it’s really beautiful. Something that we always talk about, 00:09:34.456 --> 00:09:43.800 is that the bar at the shows, that it’s like 00:09:44.184 --> 00:09:51.416 our Bible or at least until now we always did things 00:09:51.673 --> 00:09:57.107 that way, from communication, and printing, the show is always the 00:09:57.154 --> 00:09:58.888 center of attention here. 00:09:58.898 --> 00:10:00.705 Culture, identity and work. 00:10:03.496 --> 00:10:09.886 Now the idea is to start registering all of the shows, and installing a 00:10:10.227 --> 00:10:14.599 radio here inside the space, ideally each organization has their space 00:10:14.791 --> 00:10:15.818 to do as they please. 00:10:16.168 --> 00:10:19.123 We would like to develop more in the online film area. 00:10:19.842 --> 00:10:25.002 Now this year we are working with a newspaper, named 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:32.689 El Comunal that we got, which came out in 2013, 00:10:32.915 --> 00:10:40.125 and works with social organizations, about political, cultural and social matters. 00:10:40.308 --> 00:10:46.845 We were looking for a new space that’s social, political, 00:10:47.037 --> 00:10:52.785 a space within society where we’re not, this interests us a lot 00:10:52.816 --> 00:10:54.946 going forward as a future objective. 00:10:55.534 --> 00:10:57.797 And La Fábrica doesn't belong to any 00:10:58.157 --> 00:11:05.303 network, this year I believe we're going to think about changing that, 00:11:05.443 --> 00:11:11.156 working with networks, working with organizations, doing activities outside of 00:11:11.156 --> 00:11:14.583 our space, this is something that also interests us. 00:11:17.262 --> 00:11:26.547 Advice, we let them chat, like, I don’t know, the space is a way of communicating, 00:11:26.754 --> 00:11:30.253 it’s just an experience, I don't know if it’s something we could teach 00:11:30.509 --> 00:11:32.129 I don't know if it’s like that. 00:11:33.014 --> 00:11:37.461 It seems like the conversation always occurs with everyone, 00:11:37.685 --> 00:11:42.018 and many things come out of that, this is something we’ve learned a lot. 00:11:42.058 --> 00:11:44.605 Subtitles: Jamaal Taylor. Proof-reading: Victoria Price. 00:11:44.623 --> 00:11:48.870 Coordinated by the initiative PerMondo (Mondo Agit).