viernes, 15 de agosto de 2008

Festival of the Caribbean in Santiago de Cuba (Version al español disponible)

By Amauris Betancourt.
The Festival of the Caribbean makes temperature go up more than usually in Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo where cultural complicity merges to welcome artists from all over the area.

Santiago de Cuba, for 28 years in a row now, plays host, together with Cuba’s easternmost province of Guantanamo, to the outstanding and peculiar cultural diversity from the Caribbean countries in a Festival to honor one of its members by dedicating the yearly celebration. Mexican states off the Caribbean's coasts are paid homage this time: Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Campeche Wood, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Yucatán.
“The Caribbean People’s Cultures, defended and enhanced by the Festival, are, according to late Joel James (founding Director of the Festival), the spirit's area, where sovereignty of nations settles down.” said Orlando Vergés, director of the House of the Caribbean in the inauguration ceremony.
The Snake's Parade is named after the cult to this animal within ritual voodoo practice of religion.




Internacional Congress on Peopl's Cultures .



The Monument to the Cimarron, by artists Alberto Lescay, seems to raise the slaves’ decision to achieve freedom.
El Cobre town yields tribute to slave’s rebelliousness, a tradition rooted in our national culture itself.


The ballet company from Santiago set the difference off.
Next edition of the also known as the Fire Party will be dedicated the people’s cultures from Honduras

Cuban and Mexican Trova music united in Eliades Ochoa and Mexican singers.


A Guateque campesino is a party where traditional music is danced and creole food is eaten.

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