The ENAIRE Foundation celebrates the third anniversary of Naves de Gamazo by expanding its cultural offerings

On 31 July, the ENAIRE Foundation celebrated the third anniversary of the Naves de Gamazo Art Centre in Santander, with the summer programme being presented by the managing director of the ENAIRE Foundation, Margarita Asuar.

In 2021, the ENAIRE Foundation opened its permanent headquarters, the Naves de Gamazo Art Centre, in Santander where it displays works from ENAIRE's Contemporary Art Collection and presents current and relevant artistic and aeronautical exhibitions to promote contemporary art and the art of aviation science, to preserve ENAIRE's Art Collection and to support the preservation of aeronautical heritage.

To mark the third anniversary of the Naves de Gamazo, the director of the Foundation, Margarita Asuar, presented this summer's activities programme, highlighting the launch of the Window to Art, a digital touchscreen installed in the Naves de Gamazo Art Centre where visitors can take tours and view virtual rooms of the ENAIRE Foundation's exhibitions, which are currently in the art capsules at the Seve Ballesteros-Santander Airport and in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

[Margarita Asuar with the Mayor of Santander (left) Gema Igual and the Government Delegate (right) Eugenia Gómez de Diego].

"We are connecting different spaces with digital museum resources. In Naves de Gamazo, the public can access for free the ENAIRE Foundation's exhibitions at the Seve Ballesteros-Santander airport, where we have two art capsules, and in Madrid, to see the exhibitions of our photo award winners at the Royal Botanical Garden. And we have expanded the range of cultural activities parallel to the art exhibitions, with a 'book satellite', which is a reading point specialising in art and aeronautics, and book presentations, conferences and documentary projections on art and aeronautics”, explains Asuar.

The mayor of Santander, Gema Igual, the government delegate, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, the chairman of the Port of Santander, Carlos Díaz Maza and the CEO of Culture and Historical Heritage of the Government of Cantabria, Juan Antonio González Fuentes, all congratulated the ENAIRE Foundation for the work it has done over these three years.

The right to culture, art and science

The Foundation's idiosyncrasy is that it is very mindful of the right to a cultural, artistic and scientific life, as it is one of the economic, social and cultural rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognises that everyone has the right to participate freely in culture and to the protection of authorship, as set out in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.    

For the Foundation's managing director, Margarita Asuar, "all our activities are free in order to boost the democratisation of culture, because we understand that culture is a universal right, and with the implementation of digital museum resources, we are taking culture everywhere in the world".

[Margarita Asuar with the Mayor of Santander (left) Gema Igual and the Government Delegate (right) Eugenia Gómez de Diego].

Cultural volunteering in Naves de Gamazo

For the first time, the ENAIRE Foundation offers the possibility of engaging in tutored cultural volunteering, aimed especially at young people, the unemployed and disabled, who want to learn about the cultural sector of art and aeronautics.

 Every month, the ENAIRE Foundation will publish a leaflet with information on the volunteering activities available. Anyone interested can access the information at the Meeting Point of the Santander City Council Volunteering Office, where they can register via this link.

"We have already started with our first volunteer, Jorge, a great kid who will learn with us, tutored by our specialised Outreach Service, and we are open to receiving more volunteers. Culture is an area where there are many professional possibilities, and engaging with it can help identify skills and open up professional horizons", explains Asuar.

Book presentation in Naves de Gamazo

The book presentations at Naves de Gamazo started on Wednesday, 31 July, with the participation of three writers who propose different perspectives on travel, from the metapoetry of Antonio Ruiz's "Las maletas" (The suitcases), winner of the international metapoetry prize, to "Siete relatos sobre extranjeros" (Seven stories about foreigners) by Lucía Paredes and the poetry of "Las palabras que habito" (The words I inhabit) by Leticia Quemada Arriaga.

Link to all the activities of Naves de Gamazo here.

The ENAIRE Foundation

Is a cultural institution of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility that, in addition to managing, preserving and exhibiting the ENAIRE Collection of Contemporary Art, engages in a comprehensive annual programme of activities that focus on aeronautical art and culture. Notably, it is one of the institutions that currently provides the most support to photography through its annual prizes - which have become a benchmark for professional photographers - and by hosting exhibits.

It is the only foundation in Spain that combines the two seemingly disparate themes of art and aeronautical culture, bringing them together by undertaking a programme of activities that promote the study, research, knowledge and dissemination of aeronautical culture, integrating history and modernity to raise awareness of the world of aviation in our country.

The Naves de Gamazo are the first permanent home of the ENAIRE Collection of Contemporary Art, an example of collaboration between government agencies that was made possible thanks to the partnership and joint efforts of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, the Government of Cantabria, through the Office for Culture, Tourism and Sport, and the Port Authority of Santander, which share the operating expenses of the centre in order to ensure the present and future viability of this cultural project.

The ENAIRE Foundation is implementing digital museum resources to boost the democratisation of art and make it accessible from anywhere in the world. These new museum resources are now available on the Foundation's website: https://fundacionenaire.es

About ENAIRE

ENAIRE is the air navigation service provider in Spain.

As a company of the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility, it provides en route control services for all flights and overflights from five control centres in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Gran Canaria and Palma, as well as approach services to every airport in the country.

In addition, 46 airports receive communication, navigation and surveillance services from ENAIRE, which also maintains their air traffic control systems, and 21 of them, including the country's busiest airports, rely on its aerodrome air traffic control services.

ENAIRE is Europe's fourth largest air traffic manager and participates in the A6 Alliance, a coalition of air navigation providers responsible for over 80% of European air traffic, and which is seeking to modernise the air traffic management system. It is also a member of other international alliances promoting the Single European sky, such as SESAR Joint Undertaking, SESAR Deployment Manager, iTEC, CANSO and ICAO.

ENAIRE, as the responsible agency identified by the Ministry of Sustainable Transport and Mobility to implement the U-Space system in Spain, will, through its digital platform, provide the Common Information Services (CIS), which are essential to facilitate U-space services to drones and Urban Air Mobility in cooperation with local air traffic services, so that all types of aircraft can fly safely in the same airspace.

ENAIRE has received the highest score in Europe on the aviation safety key performance indicator for four years in a row, and it now boasts the ESQM 600 seal, the result of its safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable management of air navigation services.