Holguín gets ready for Ibero-American Culture Festival online
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With the participation of delegates from more than 18 countries, the city of Holguín will host the 26th edition of the Ibero-American Culture Festival online from 24 to 28 of this month in line with the established health provisions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eduardo Ávila Rumayor, president of the organizing committee for the event, said at press conference that this year´s event will change its theme and will take place from the Casa de Iberoamérica official webpage on Facebook and other digital platforms.
The event will focus on culture as a resilience factor from the effects that cultural processes have had during times of epidemiological crisis such as the current one, he explained.
So far, artists and creators from Spain, Mexico, United States, Argentina, Chile, Portugal and El Salvador will participate in the event with sociocultural and intellectual projects on different artistic manifestations.
This will be an event of support to all the sister peoples, highlighting the processes associated with the most indigenous roots of the countries that make up the Ibero-American area, he added.
Ávila Rumayor pointed out that all the spaces will be adjusted from digital platforms prioritizing the artistic solidarity brigades, as well as the work of cultural promoters and participating researchers, which this year will present a TV project that includes moments of previous festivals that will be broadcast on channels such as Clave, Telesur and Caribe, said Ávila Rumayor.
The program includes the inauguration of a virtual exhibition in the main hall of the Provincial Center of Plastic Arts of the eastern city with more than 40 works and the presence of around 10 countries.
The Ibero-American Colloquium of Letters, poetry recitals, book presentations and the delivery of the Adelaida del Mármol Prize are also in the agenda, said Bárbara MartínezPupo, specialist of the Casa Iberoamericana and member of the Organizing Committee.
She added that the Ibero-American Congress of Thought will include conferences, panels, forums for debate and special presentations online by important intellectuals and researchers.
Among the most relevant of the event is the delivery of the José Manuel Guarch del Monte Research Award, which includes the printed publication of the winning research and the presentation of number three of the sociocultural research journal Guayza, by the local publishing house Ediciones Holguín and its director, the writer Lourdes González.
Emerged in 1993 in Holguín at the initiative of the then Minister of Culture Armando Hart Dávalos, the Ibero-American Culture Festival highlights the historical-cultural roots that unite the Ibero-American nations, characterized by a cultural mosaic of broad nuances.
