With its 3.5 million inhabitants of the Lowlands, now divided between the municipalities of Japeri, Paracambi, Burns, New Delhi, Mosque, Nilópolis, Belford, St. Johns Wood, Duque de Caxias, Mage and Guapemirim has a process of occupation quite different from other metropolitan capitals of Brazilian States. The Rio de Janeiro, having been the capital since the colony has always added a large and increasingly growing cultural facilities such as museums, theater, music, sports centers, convention centers and other bodies and institutions that are dedicated activities related to culture.

The periphery always in need of equipment and cultural activities, has been relegated to oblivion and the exclusion of decisions, forming generations sold in the advance of modern thought, character and cultural changes that processed in the contemporary world. Television and radio were the vehicles and drivers have been in some way the processes of change, allowing behavioral attitudes in relation to the intellectual world.
We arrived at the beginning of the XXI century Lowland with a lag of cultural facilities that can only be explained in light of the processes of discrimination and social exclusion.

The Lowlands now has theater rooms in the cities of St. Johns Wood (SESC), Burnley (Town Hall), Duque de Caxias (SESI and City Hall) New Delhi (City Hall), Nilópolis (City Hall), New Delhi (SESC) . With the exception of the rooms of the SESC and the City Burn the others are very shy and are not prepared for big shows.

Cultural Centers or spaces for various cultural activities, appear in the counties of St. Johns Wood, Nilópolis, N. Iguaçu, Belford Roxo and Duque de Caxias, which enable these municipalities, depending on the projects developed in each Department of Culture, fill them with cultural activities.

With regard to the visual arts only SESC New Delhi has a permanent space dedicated to the exhibition. The artist presents his works in the lowlands adapted in salons, restaurants and steak houses, in cultural centers, which do not have sufficient lighting, security and all the works necessary for the recovery of the artwork.

The preservation of memory through reference centers or museum, there is only the initiative of IPAHB in St. Johns Wood, which is still quite small and does not have a significant collection.

The music only the counties of St. Johns Wood School have Nilópolis and maintained by the government, with enough grace and lack of adequate space for learning in the diversity of instruments.

Craft production is significant, however, no public or private initiatives, with artisan cooperatives or sheds, organization of production and sale. There is no traditional handicrafts and what is produced is for immediate consumption that is taken to the fairs and are sold on the street near the free market and crossed by the street vendors.

The editorial production of poets, writers and intellectuals different is very small compared to the population universe. There are no precise figures, we can say without much margin of error does not occur every year more than 06 book titles in lowlands. To believe that the production is, however, by a lack of these works are not published.

The cultural institutions that are linked or not the government that are worth mentioning are the IPAHB (works on the issues of memory and historical heritage), the Culture House (working with the arts in general), the INCAPRA (works with African community) AMC (Lowlands of Composers works), all SJMeriti. In Nilópolis find the Baroque Soul (working with the arts in general). In New Delhi highlighted the Green Wave (works with ecology and culture in general). In Burnley Project Youth and Adolescents (Culture and Education). In Duque de Caxias, the Association of Artists, the Association of Folias de Reis, Cine Club Mate Angu and Historical Institute of the Municipality of Duque de Caxias.

It appears that many institutions are anonymously is occupying spaces that should be occupied by the Government. Indeed private initiatives or groups produce quality cultural activities in the vacuum left by state officials.

Cultural issues of Fluminense suffer the same ailments that plague Brazilian culture, among the many ills I highlight what I consider the most relevant. First municipal budgets for culture are mediocre and are around 0.5 to 0.7%, mainly consumed with payroll. There is no money to invest physical and cultural projects.

Another issue of great importance is the management of culture. There are municipalities that the manager is the result of political agreements and the folder is given to people with no experience and knowledge of the cultural universe. Soma is also a lack of intellectual and academic credentials necessary for good management, it all comes hindering the development of projects. These factors create a lack of continuity, causing obstruction of interpersonal relationships with operators.

Thus we see that there are municipalities that advance as a manager when you have individuals with training and understanding the cultural and kicks when the choice is poorly made and who loses is the people, not only the city but the lowlands as a whole.

One factor that disturbs the development of cultural activities is improvisation. I know today in the cultural universe of the lowlands, cities that have projects of medium and long term. The actions are aimed at invarialvemente immediacy and political events, or at most punctual projects. A plan of Culture care organization in the municipality of physical infrastructure, human and material capable of supporting the cultural demand quality, operability and result transformer.

Columnist - Genesis Torres