Location
Visit this multipurpose public space filled with art, culture and the environment in the Caribbean context.
León's Origins Center
The first Eduardo León Jimenes Art Contest was held in 1964, with the intention of promoting the development of visual arts and stimulating creativity in the new generations of artists. In his speech for our opening, Mr. Eduardo León Asensio anticipated that over the years
Mission, vision and objetives
Eduardo León Jimenes Cultural Center (León Center) is located in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. It was devised by the Leon Asensio brothers to honor the memory of their parents while giving the country an institution for its educational and cultural development. Its doors were opened in October 2003 with various spaces used for public and private activities, both inside and around the main building. It has four exhibition halls, multipurpose room, classroom, educational workshop room, auditorium, media library, cafeteria, shop, Caribbean Patio and gardens, all of which comply with international standards established by ICOM / UNESCO for their design and operation.
Centro León is home to an eco-museum that seeks to articulate educational, socio-cultural, investigative, informational and exhibition programs around Dominicanity within its Caribbean context. Its projects and activities make art, culture and the environment into essential components of community development, through the strengthening of values of creativity, identity and habitability.
Mission
Leon Center develops creativity through research, protection, exhibition and dissemination of Dominican artistic and cultural achievements and of everything that contributes to forming a society more sensitive to transcendent values, more proud of itself and capable of actively participating in improving the quality of life of the nation within the Caribbean context.
Vision
Leon Center thrives to become one of the most complete cultural centers in the Caribbean and Latin America in documentation and creation of offers and cultural products. Centro León seeks to encourage the increase of interest, audiences and specialized institutions in the cultural field, by providing the cultural recognition of communities, cultural actors, traditions and vanguards, centered in the quality and diversity of artistic trends, conceptions and styles, through the generation of learning dynamics, accessibility, participation and cultural production based on information and communication technologies.
Objectives
To propitiate diverse spaces and reflection-action modes on three thematic axes: the identities, the creativity and the habitat, within their respective Dominican and Caribbean contexts.
To organize, investigate and expose collections and artistic and anthropological objects that converge in a plural representation of the Dominican and Caribbean identities.
To value the role of art, particularly the visual arts, in the formation of cultural identities, emphasizing the relationship and the expressive role they articulate in culture.
To motivate in the participant questions and answers from the expositions, the cultural contexts and the possibilities of the art of recreating and questioning the culture.
To constitute and offer a public space to ease the exchange between communities, groups, artists and institutions for the use, enjoyment and production of cultural and artistic projects and activities, as well as the reflection-action on habitability.
Promote actions, strategies and collaboration programs with public and private institutions that have programs in various regional, national and international communities, to manage initiatives to be carried out in different locations and contexts.
Foundation E. León Jimenes
The Eduardo León Jimenes Foundation is a private non-profit institution created by the Leon Asensio brothers and Leon Jimenes Group to contribute to the social and cultural development of the Dominican nation.
The Foundation was established on November 29, 1995 with the purpose of managing socially relevant, participatory and self-managed projects, with a vocation of exchange and collaboration between national and international groups and institutions. It is part of Leon Jimenes Group and a key unit in the development of its corporate social responsibility programs.
The origins of Grupo León Jimenes date from October 3, 1903, when Eduardo León Jimenes founded the first company of the Group, La Aurora, in 50,000 square meters of cultivated land of tobacco, in the community of Don Pedro, Guazumal, province of Santiago . After that modest beginning, this company was transformed into a diversified business group, at the forefront in the industrial and commercial field of the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean.
To know more about León Jimenes Group and its history, we invite you to visit its website, www.glj.com.do
The Eduardo León Jimenes Foundation is a faithful expression of the commitment made by Leon Leon Jimenes and the Leon family to contribute to the achievement of a better nation.
María Amalia León de Jorge
Director at Eduardo León Jimenes Foundation and León Center
Artificer of the education of thousands of students, through the school and commitment, literature and philosophy, Maria Amalia Leon de Jorge thanks life for the opportunity of a coherent work in search of a better society. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and Language from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as well as a post-graduate degree in School Administration and Supervision by the Santo Domingo Technological Institute and a Diploma in Group Dynamics.
She is Director at the Eduardo León Jimenes Foundation and Academic Director at Lux Mundi Educational Community. Active member of the International Patronage Council of the Queen Sofia Foundation Museum (Spain), as well as member of the Boards of Directors of important institutions in the Dominican Republic, such as the National Council of Culture, the Sinfonia Foundation, Acción Pro Educación y Culture (APEC); The Friends of the National Theater Foundation, the Higher Institute of Teacher Education (ISFODOSU) and Póveda Family Integration Center. She is also a member of the Founding Council of the Friends of the Colonial City Foundation (Santo Domingo).
Among its innumerable lectures and shared publications, stand out When the Wind Speaks (children's fiction, Tales of the Reserve of the Biosphere collection, 2009), The Foundations, Voice of Solidarity, Human Rights at its origin: The Dominican Republic and Antón de Montesinos (Complutense University of Madrid, Spanish Cooperation, Quinta Dominica, 2011), Genesis of a Miracle (children's fiction, Art Book BHD collection, 2015) and The teaching of values through literary symbolism and artistic integration, edition of her doctoral thesis with the Complutense University of Madrid, which will soon come to light.
Centro León's Team
We are a team of cultural workers who stimulate public space that is open, dialogue and participatory with the community, to stimulate the production of knowledge and cultural exchange, based on the study, dissemination and promotion of the cultural artistic heritage of the Dominican Republic In the Caribbean context.
Amigos Centro León Program
Friends of Centro León feel identified with the programs and activities carried out by Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes.
With its annual contribution, each friend collaborates with the fulfillment of projects that benefit different communities of artists, students and teachers, while receiving additional benefits for membership. Being part of Friends of Centro León is very simple: choose one of the categories that we offer and register.
Work at the León Center
The León Center invites you to belong to your work team. Register in the database of talents, where you are guaranteed that your data will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and you will be contacted when a work opportunity is presented that corresponds to your profile.
