The 29th edition of the Ibero-American Culture Festival ended today in Holguin, after several days aimed at commemorating the meeting of the Two Cultures from the safeguard of the identity roots of the peoples of America.
Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Casa de Iberoamerica in Holguin city, the event gathered more than a hundred delegates from the United States, Italy and Chile, who participated in exhibitions, conferences, book presentations, plays and concerts.
Among the most important moments of the Festival was the 18th Ibero-American Congress of Thought, which included the inaugural conference given by Eloísa María Carreras Varona, director of the Armando Hart Dávalos Archive and House Museum, where the Cuban statesman and revolutionary was awarded the Casa de Iberoamérica distinction post mortem.
There was also a colorful Ibero-American parade through the streets of the city where companies such as Encuentro and Mónica Dance, the Provincial Concert Band, the students of artistic education and the Fantasías project paraded from El Quijote to the well-known San José Park.
The folkloric foundation “Raipillán” from Chile, one of the foreign groups that distinguished this edition, delighted the audience with traditional dances of the region, under the direction of Fabiola Salinas.
The Provincial Art Center hosted the exhibition “Pinturas Rupestres” by Rafael Zarza, winner of the 2020 National Plastic Arts Award, as well as the exhibition “Obras al papel… papeles a la obra”, with the results of the Manufactured Paper Workshops held during the event and books from the Cuadernos Papiro collection.
Likewise, the Adelaida del Mármol National Poetry Prize was awarded to the notebook “El miedo de Virgilio”, by the writer Rolando Bellido Aguilera, from Holguín, and a historical tour was made through the Bariay National Monument Park, in the municipality of Rafael Freyre, to recreate the process of transculturation after the arrival of the Spanish colonizers.
The Ibero-American Culture Festival, which has been held annually in the city of Holguin since 1993, at the initiative of then Culture Minister Armando Hart, links the native roots with the contemporary artistic currents of the different regions of Latin America.
With information from ACN / Translated by Radio Angulo
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