Cultura Ventora

 (lit. Culture Ventora) is a government-sponsored organized to promote Ventoran culture around Vanatas. Its remit is furthering study and knowledge of the and advancing cultural familiarity and understanding, including Ventoran cuisine, art, architecture, and history. Part of the Commonweal Commission, the agency has its head offices in Plenas,, Ventora. Egia Mopime Narapiro is Cultura Ventora's current superintendent. She also serves as the chairperson for the Ventoran Cultural Board (Ventoran: Junta Cultural Ventorana) which provides general guidance to the agency.

Ventoran Society
Founded in 1729 in Yan, Asidama, the Ventoran Society is one of the oldest Ventoran s. Naama Uyataga, Dama ambassador to Ventora, published his book, Ventora, in 1727 which caused a considerable interest in the culture of what was a far off land. Don Ofe Blasam y Frescia, who had been Uyataga's Ventoran language tutor, formed the society as an informal club for Damans to increase their knowledge and satisfy their curiosity in a more substantial way than could come from books without the expense and ardor of actually making the journey to Ventora. The society came to the attention of King in 1732 and he issued a charter. The society continued to grow over the next decade or so and then continued to hover around 150 members thereafter.

With the rise of more formalized international diplomacy from the early 1800s, additional countries saw the formation of a Ventoran society. These organizations remained independent, albeit sanctioned by the Ventoran monarch. In the early 1900s, they formed an association which gave some coordination among the various groups. It also led to the societies gaining some attention from the Directorate for Culture in 1912 with the formation of the Commonweal Commission.

World wars
The start of the First World War in 1912 resulted in the shuttering of a number of the Ventoran Societies, including the demise of several of them in Great Coalition countries. Some of the societies restarted after the war only to shut down again 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War. The scope and economic impacts of the two wars placed great hardship on the groups that had previously been involved with the societies. Continuing distrust of the former World War 2 Concert Powers also played a role in societies not restarting. The Third World War (1954-58) also inhibited the societies, particularly in Alutra.

Government sponsorship
Although the societies enjoyed official approval virtually from their beginning, they were not government-sponsored. With the formation of the World Forum in 1958, King Florián III sought to give Ventora a more favorable reputation internationally. He chartered Cultura Ventora on May 11, 1951, as an agency in the Commonweal Commission. Since the 1960s, the agency has steadily refined its programs and expanded its outreach efforts.