Ibero-American Culture Festival Kicks Off Today in Holguin

The 31st edition of the Ibero-American Culture Festival kicks off today with a concert by the Holguin Symphony Orchestra and the Cobre Steel Band from Santiago de Cuba. The festival brings together nearly 100 participants from more than 12 invited countries in this city.

The event, dedicated this time to the relationship between culture and sustainable development, will run until the 30th with a program aimed at reaffirming its inclusive nature and its commitment to exchange, reflection, and the promotion of art in its various forms.

The organizing committee, chaired by Isaíris Rojas París, informed CNA that representatives from Brazil, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic will participate. Along with artists and specialists who will share knowledge and artistic expressions in various venues throughout the city.

As in previous editions, its regular events will include the Virtual Ibero-American Visual Arts Exhibition, dedicated to the region’s cultural diversity. Also the Third Paper Artists’ Meeting, which celebrates the 90th anniversary of Electa Arenal.

Also returning are the Ibero-American Audiovisual Exhibition, the Iberoarte Crafts Fair, the Salón Lote, and the Artistic Solidarity Brigades.

The organizing committee emphasized that the Ibero-American Congress of Thought will celebrate its 20th anniversary with more than 100 speakers. Both virtual and in-person, and will address topics such as albinism in Cuba on its academic agenda. With the participation of representatives from the UN and social movements from Argentina.

This symposium, considered the backbone of the Festival, will pay tribute to Rigoberto Rodríguez Entenza, founder of the event. The historian Eduardo Torres Cuevas, and will culminate with the presentation of the José Manuel Guarch National Research Award.

Ernesto Ángulo Mesa, a member of the organizing committee, emphasized that the Casa del Taita spaces and the Iberian and Latin American and Caribbean Centers will be activated. In addition to the activities in the city of parks and in the municipality of Gibara. In Bariay the call for applications for the next edition, dedicated to artistic education, will be launched.

Considering the weather forecast related to the evolution and trajectory of Tropical Storm Melissa. The Provincial Directorate of Culture and the Organizing Committee of the Ibero-American Cultural Festival. They announced that they have decided to continue holding the event, conditions permitting. With a minimal program that can be held at the venues planned for the coming days.

The Ibero-American Cultural Festival remains a meeting place for theoretical, expressive, community, and sociocultural forums. Aimed at fostering exchanges and reaffirming its position. As one of the most representative events in Holguin and one of the most important of its kind in the country.

With information from CNA

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