Casa de Iberoamérica in Holguín provides international cultural services
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The Casa de Iberoamérica in the province of Holguín expands its cultural services through new international agreements with institutions in Europe and Latin America, which strengthen the work of its specialists in social networks and digital platforms.
Liliana Avilés, International Relations specialist at the institution, noted among the new collaboration agreements in 2021 the link with Italia Foundation, which each year awards researchers or cultural institutions dedicated to studying the life of Admiral Christopher Columbus.
Avilés said that the call for this award is traditionally held in May from Genoa, the place where Christopher Columbus was born, and added that the foundation did not know the work of the center as an organizer of the "Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoaméricana", an event that identifies the encounter between the two cultures from the landing of the navigator by Bariay, on October 28, 1492.
She specified that this year event will be held online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will include an audiovisual presentation in which the researcher Cosme Casals will refer to the presence in Cuba and Holguín of the discoverer of America.
As members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Culture cluster, they also carry out commercial actions, such as an exchange with the Trinidad and Tobago embassy in which they presented the most relevant cultural projects in the province such as Romerías de Mayo, Ibero-American Culture Festival and Gibara International Film Festival, said Avilés.
She argued that the idea of extrapolating the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival to Holguín arose from that meeting, for which the pertinent coordination is carried out with the creators of these celebrations, the only one in cultural matters on the Island, who have expressed their interest in having our services as event organizers.
Casa de Iberoamérica also participated in the summer school of the University of Bologna in Italy through a web conference, which gave them the opportunity to present their cultural tourism products to that European region.
It also has strengthened its links with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), which in the person of its president Fernando González Llort, agreed on several agreements in which ICAP recognizes Casa de Iberoamérica as a cultural reference for all the actions they carry out, given by the impact of the work of the center's specialists on social networks and digital platforms.
The Casa de Iberoamérica has the most representative links in the countries of Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Chile, the United States, Italy and Spain.
