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Cuba to host the 14th edition of the International Timbalaye Festival

By: CubaPLUS Magazine
Aug 31, 2022
Cuba to host the 14th edition of the International Timbalaye Festival

The Fernando Ortiz Foundation is preparing today the colloquium dedicated to the value of Afro-Cuban culture as part of the initial activities of the International Timbalaye Festival, on the occasion of its 14th edition.

The event, which will start tomorrow, Wednesday 31, focuses on the Yoruba presence as a fundamental theme and rumba, a living expression and cultural and intangible heritage of the nation declared by Unesco.

Since 2019, the event seeks to fulfill the African Legacy Heritage Objective, to vindicate and value that influence which arrived in Cuba and extended to the Latin American and Caribbean region where the work of Afro-descendant communities becomes relevant from the historical safeguard.

In this sense, the event includes lectures on how the African presence in Cuba is a reality, to be given by cultural personalities such as ethnologist and honorary president of the Union of Writers and Artists, Miguel Barnet, writer Zuleica Roman and Ortiz Foundation researcher Jose Matos.

We want to talk with young people, children, bearers of this tradition, culture, researchers and as many people as possible throughout the country and disseminate this sample of cultural identity, reaffirmed the artistic director, Irma Castillo, to the Cubarte portal.

This year, Timbalaye defends community culture as one of its most significant aspects and concentrates its actions in several provinces of the island such as Pinar del Rio, Cienfuegos, Guantanamo and Camagüey.

According to the president of the Festival, Ulises Mora, ‘there is no place that has taught us more than the community when we started this project more than thirty years ago; because living in the neighborhoods is where one becomes aware of the place where the true collective intelligence is, through the groups, the rumba and their bata drums, which in the end are a folkloric ensemble with its own philosophy’.

(With information from Prensa Latina)

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