In 2026, Medell\u00edn celebrates with emotion and reverence the 50th anniversary of the Corporaci\u00f3n Cultural Canchimalos, an organization that, more than a cultural project, has become a home for the inner child we all carry within us and a path to finding meaning through art, play, and community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since its founding in 1976, Canchimalos has flourished as an unwavering commitment to bienvivir (living well), to human dignity, and to authentic encounters with our deepest forms of knowledge. In every workshop, every dance, and every expression, this Corporation has sown seeds of joy, curiosity, identity, and freedom that today have taken root in generations of artists, families, and transformed citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What distinguishes Canchimalos is its understanding of art not as a distant product, but as a life experience that touches bodies, hearts, and collective memories. Its Integral Artistic School opens its doors to people from \u201c0 to 100 years old,\u201d inviting them to understand that playing is learning, growing, and building meaning together with others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over these fifty years, Canchimalos has been a space to recover and revalue our popular culture, to build bridges between generations, to reimagine traditions, and to make Medell\u00edn a city that does not forget how to play, how to dance, how to sing, and how to look toward the future with hope and creativity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In recent years, initiatives such as the Scenic Memory Laboratory have delved deeper into the richness of the works, gestures, and learnings accumulated since 1976, understanding memory as a living archive and a source of new paths to explore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In recent years, initiatives such as the Scenic Memory Laboratory have delved deeper into the richness of the works, gestures, and learnings accumulated since 1976, understanding memory as a living archive and a source of new paths to explore. Fraternidad Medell\u00edn<\/em>, acompa\u00f1ar a Canchimalos desde 2022, ha significado reconocer en su trayectoria una fuerza transformadora sin igual: una manera distinta de creer en las personas, en sus capacidades creativas y en la cultura como instrumento de dignidad y paz. Celebrar los 50 a\u00f1os de Canchimalos es celebrar la posibilidad de que cada vida pueda ser tejida con arte, alegr\u00eda y sentido. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today we celebrate half a century of stories that beat with life, of shared embraces, of learnings that endure, and of dreams set alight. May the next 50 years continue to be a collective song, a constant game, an endless dance of hope for Medell\u00edn, Colombia, and all the places where playfulness and art make the impossible possible. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" En 2026, Medell\u00edn celebramos con emoci\u00f3n y reverencia los 50 a\u00f1os de la Corporaci\u00f3n Cultural Canchimalos, una organizaci\u00f3n que, m\u00e1s que un proyecto cultural, se ha convertido un hogar para el ni\u00f1o interior que todos llevamos dentro y un rumbo para encontrar sentido a trav\u00e9s del arte, del juego y de la comunidad. Desde su fundaci\u00f3n en 1976, Canchimalos ha florecido como una apuesta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8997,"template":"","categoria":[18],"class_list":["post-8995","eventos","type-eventos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-noticia"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 05:33:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"categoria","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/8995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventos"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/8995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8996,"href":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/8995\/revisions\/8996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraternidadmedellin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}