Associativity and CommunityThe Associativity and Community division works with the community to cultivate Centex programming and content for each thematic cycle. Community-level organizations can use Centex's facilities to develop artistic and cultural projects in a variety of disciplines, as well as workshops, conferences, meetings and debates. All activities should be completely free for organizations and visitors. Centex, therefore, through the Associativity and Community division, presents itself as a Cultural Community Center that provides the community with a series of activities, workshops and spaces for their enjoyment. Consequently, artistic education and audience development are expressed through access and participation of social groups, without any particular educational strategy, but rather to strengthen, starting from Centex, the idea of ​​equal access and participation of the community. Community-based organizations, in general, offer activities complementary to the field of art, as necessary as the expression of the work itself, but more focused on social change, civic engagement and cultural development. As defined by Arlene Goldbard in her text “Looking Before You Leap: Community Arts in Context” the main goal of this type of community-based practice is to strengthen community cultural development (CCD). This “refers to those activities undertaken by artist-organizers in collaboration with community members, employing social imagination and collective creation in the arts to express identities, concerns, hopes and fears.” (Goldbard, 2005, p.1). There is this scenario in which artistic practices play a secondary role because the most important thing is not the development of artistic products such as workshops, murals or concerts, but ra...... middle of paper ......st come Centex, where some discursive themes are installed through special programming with a variety of artistic practices such as music, dance, dedication, cinema, among others. In the logic of approaching and attracting the public, not making them participate in direct decisions, but making them feel important and ensuring that the institution is a reference, a space where they can find themselves and be recognized. Both realities are comparable and replicable with prudence, because they share the priority of developing a bigger and better audience. Perhaps the differences lie in the forms, in the mechanisms. Here the strategies are systematized: multiple programs, teamwork, audience studies, etc. Despite the lack of theorization, diversification of programs and resources, Centex has been able to advance successful practices that seek to better serve its audiences.