Cuba to Host Festival on African Roots
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- Culture and Traditions
- 05 / 16 / 2010
Dedicated to the presence of the Yoruba culture on the Caribbean island, the meeting will once again be held at the town of Guanabacoa, a place that keeps centenarian folk traditions, the heirs of the combination of African and Spanish cultures.
The president of the event’s Organizing Committee, Jorge Luis Corona, told the press that the center of the Festival will be the people, and that researchers, artists and people who practice African religions from seven nations –among them Nigeria, Senegal, Venezuela and Guyana- will participate.
In Wemilere, which in Yoruba language means "fiesta dedicated to the Orishas", all artistic expressions will converge.
Corona pointed out that the Concha Ferrant Gallery will welcome fine arts, with the exhibition “Lo africano en la Postmodernidad”, with the participation of graduates from art schools.
The Rita Montaner Culture Center will be the venue of the literary forum “Africa en nosotros”, in which the incorporation of that cultural element to Hispanic letters will be analyzed.
The performances of the Cucalambe Fol. Ensemble, the work of which is dedicated to the preservation of Yoruba culture on the island, will be among the event’s attractions, stressed the president of the Organizing Committee.
Also hosting some of the activities of the event –carried out since 1989- will be the Ruben Martinez Villena Amphitheater and the Guanabacoa Municipal Museum.
The African component of Cuban identity handed down to the Caribbean nation a strong culture of resistance, its multicolored artistic and philosophic heritage, and its miscegenation, since the times Lucumi slaves brought to the island the culture of West Africa in the 16th century.
Source: ACN
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