• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 05 / 08 / 2011

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By Alain Valdes Sierra. A new opportunity for the promotion of the popular dance music as well as other artistic expressions was opened with the call to the Festival of the Cuban arts CubaSoy, to be held in PLaya municipality, Havana City from the first and through the fifth of next June.

Arnaldo Rodríguez, president of the event and director of the orchestra Talismán, explained in a press conference held at the Miramar Casa de la Musica, that the main objective of the project is to promote and develop the cultural identity of the island nowadays.

Music will be the main dish of the festival, which will include a "Timba or Cuban Salsa" meeting, directed to experts of the topic with a theoretical event about the characteristics of the genre from the start and until the 90´s.

The festival will also dedicate a space to dancers in different concert, in which will be presented the most important orchestras and musicians in the country, indicated the artist.

Rodríguez, who has previous experiences organizing this type of events (eight editions of the Piña Colada festival), indicated that another of the very interesting proposals of "CubaSoy" will be the El Guateque Habanero, with concerts, shows and exhibitions related to the Cuban rural life.

This first edition of the art festival CubaSoy will be dedicated to the celebration of the World Day of Environment, to be held the fifth of June and to the 35 years of the Havana municipality of Playa, which, therefore, will be the venue of the event.

This event will be possible thanks to the joint efforts of the Cultural Project CubaSoy, the record company EGREM, ARTEX S.A., the agency of artistic representation MUSICUBA and the Municipality Cultural Direction of Playa, among other institutions.

Cubarte Translation Staff