Abstract

Recognition of the changes and challenges in the Colombian cultural sector includes mechanisms for constructing and distributing cultural manifestations and providing spaces that legitimize social values and promote traditions. However, the importance of cultural policies at the territorial level in Colombia demonstrates differential behavior throughout the country. Within this framework, an analysis of cultural policies and initiatives for cultural consumption is conducted based on the normative and budget relationship in the thirty-two Colombian departments and the thirteen major urban areas of the country. In this sense, from the behavior of several territorial entities, the lack of articulation between the established normative realities and budgetary executions generates a distortion between the desire established in public initiatives and the investment projects linked to improving the cultural sector. Finally, this cultural sector quotidian dissonance with the budget and public initiatives directly affects the audience’s access and the interactions of the cultural ecosystems.