Marea cultural is a project by @mijarosoft that aims to showcase the invisible people and cultural side of Peru. It was started in 2007 in Chimbote, Peru. The founder had previously won a national journalism prize. Marea cultural publishes video interviews of writers, painters, musicians and actors to feature figures in Peruvian culture that are ignored by mainstream media. After publishing over 300 videos on their blog and social media in its first year, Marea cultural now travels around Peru to cover cultural events in person.

1. A project of @mijarosoft and @mareacultural… @mijarosoft Marea cultural: the other side of the cultural peruvian journalism…

2. “ The future is already here – it is just unevenly distribuye” W illiam Gibson @mijarosoft

3. @mijarosoft @mijarosoft Marea cultural`s blog was born in Chimbote (Peru) in 2007 to show invisible people of the peruvian cultural side.

4. @mijarosoft @mareacultural Months before the recovery of marea cultural`s blog, his founder obtained the national prize of journalism CVR + 5, contest summoned by consejo de la prensa peruana @mijarosoft

5. @mijarosoft @mijarosoft To begin our work was necessary to establish an alliance with the leader of technology in the peruvian blogs.

6. @mijarosoft @mijarosoft The merger technology and culture was in way…

7. @mijarosoft @mijarosoft What would come was going to be a product of working without rest…

8. Our web project @mijarosoft

9. @mijarosoft @mijarosoft From may, 2009, “Marea cultural” started publishing interviews on video to writers, painters, musicians and actors of the cultural peruvian scene…

10. @mijarosoft The interviewed ones were figures of the cultural sector despised by the peruvian mass media. Viadescapetv` s blog was publishing also the videos… @mijarosoft

11. @mijarosoft One year after (until june, 2010), “Marea cultural” has published more than 300 videos in his blogs and platforms of facebook and twitter @mijarosoft

12. @mijarosoft We tune with the real protagonist of the cultural peruvian and latin american scene @mijarosoft @mijarosoft

13. @mijarosoft 5,000 followers in facebook and 1400 in twitter endorse us, but the most important thing is the follower´s quality that we possess @mijarosoft @mijarosoft

14. @mijarosoft In spite of the success in the social media networks even we couldn´t have made profitable our project @mijarosoft

15. @mijarosoft Of the world 2.0 we`ve jumped to the real world travelling around peru to realice coverage of cultural events @mijarosoft

16. @mijarosoft Of the world 2.0 we`ve jumped to the real world… @mijarosoft

17. @mijarosoft Hereby, we “rescue” the winner of international latino book award in Book Expo America (New York, 2009) @mijarosoft

18. @mijarosoft Braulio Muñoz, a writer from Chimbote (Peru), is author of the novel “Alejandro and the fishermen of Tancay” @mijarosoft @mijarosoft

19. @mijarosoft Figures of the intellectual world scene, like the italian literary critic Antonio Melis, have been interviewed for us @mijarosoft

20. Out-standing cultural civil servants like Edgar Montiel (chief of UNESCO`s departament of culture and development) also have had space in “Marea cultural” @mijarosoft

21. @mijarosoft Diego Ribadeneyra, ambassador of Ecuador, talked with “Marea cultural” about cultural binational policies @mijarosoft

22. @mijarosoft with Mayra Santos Febres, essayist, narrating and winner of Juan Rulfo Prize (Paris, 1996) @mijarosoft

23. @mijarosoft with the brasilian novelist María Alzira Brum Lemos, talking abour your books @mijarosoft

24. @mijarosoft with the peruvian congressmember Luciana León, talking about cultural policies @mijarosoft

25. Some mentions that speaking for our project… @mijarosoft

26. @mijarosoft Global Voices in spanish @mijarosoft

27. @mijarosoft Global Voices in english @mijarosoft

28. @mijarosoft La fortaleza de la soledad (Lima, Peru), a post about “Marea cultural” project @mijarosoft

29. @mijarosoft Círculo D. M. (Amsterdam, Holland), a interview with Augusto Rubio about “Marea cultural” project @mijarosoft

30. We presence on Twitter… @mijarosoft

31. @mijarosoft @mijarosoft

32. @mijarosoft In this slide: Jeff Pulver, one of the pioneers of VoIP industry @mijarosoft

33. @mijarosoft Bubok, leading publishing house in the autoedition in internet and enterprising prize XXI in Madrid (Spain, 2010) @mijarosoft

34. @mijarosoft A tweet of Holly Ross, executive director of NTEN (The nonprofit technology network) @mijarosoft

35. @mijarosoft Beth Kanter, one of the mis respectes non profit tech consultant @mijarosoft

36. @mijarosoft Luciana León`s congresswoman and promoter of the future peruvian department of culture @mijarosoft

37. @mijarosoft Shira Lazar, blogger and personality of the web @mijarosoft

38. @mijarosoft Caterina Fake (Co-Founder Flickr) @mijarosoft

39. @mijarosoft “ Marea cultural”. democratizing the web, cultural citizen journalism of all and for all… @mijarosoft

40. @mareacultural @mijarosoft