The urgency that we human beings establish and strengthen understanding between ourselves, and therefore between all our cultures, has a utilitarian dimension and a moral dimension. So much practical as idealistic.The utility connects concord save our existence and our survival in the world, and ethics with the recognition of human agency in its unity and its diversity.
Recognize, so multiculturalism is to accept the Other, and does not in any aspect of human rights. It is an action "inter", then each other, and require political, legal... but also to a large extent cultural. Opening cultural attitudes and relationships, and reinforce that are rooted in knowledge on others, and open up channels of communication, not exclusive.
The Living Library of al-Andalus (BVA) ensures that THE SEEDS OF MULTICULTURALISM, recommended for all reasons, fruition through the knowledge of other cultures, which existed during the course of history and those that exist today, bringing the contribution of library and cultural activities.
Al-Andalus is the hub of the Living Library. The eight centuries of al-Andalus we offer all the usual range between the Coexistence and exclusion, war and peace, harmony and rejection, but also give us an example of coexistence and coexistence, and in that luminous Cordoba Umayyad Caliphate led to the limelight as joint top of the three religions, of the Three Cultures: Christians, Jews and Muslims.
The multiculturalism of al-Andalus, in their best examples and vivid in their results, is a necessary symbol. Its cultural symbolism does not tarnish the episodes of conflict which also occurred, then, for our instruction, so their coexistence as we seek lessons its exclusions.
Around these fundamentals, the Living Library of al-Andalus attempt has been operating in the knowledge of Andalusian culture, and its rich historical components and relationships, as reflected in various forms of civilization developed there, with their mergers and contributions to universal culture, which represent bridges and contacts between East and West.
Thus contributes, the Living Library of al-Andalus to consolidate THE SEEDS OF MULTICULTURALISM:
- with its THE BAILIO PALACE: A UNIQUE SITE
- with its LIBRARY
- with its activity as OPEN CULTURAL CENTER