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Ministry of the People’s Power for Culture of Venezuela celebrates Afrovenezolanidad |
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In the Capital and the states of Vargas, Miranda, Sucre, Monagas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Yaracuy, Lara and Zulia
19 May 2007/ Communications Office, Ministry of the People’s Power for Culture.
The Ministry of the People’s Power for Culture will promote many activities in May on the occasion of the African-Venezuelan Festivities, to commemorate the struggle for freedom of José Leonardo Chirinos on the 10th of May in 1795.
In this regard, the Minister of the People’s Power for Culture, His Excellency Francisco Sesto, announced a series of activities in memory of the Africans and African descendants will be implemented in the month of Afrovenezolanidad. Several cultural agencies, such as Cinema and Audiovisual, Book and reading, CONAC, Network of Libraries and Mission Culture, will co-sponsor several parallel events in the Capital, and the states of Vargas, Miranda, Sucre, Monagas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Yaracuy, Lara and Zulia.
The Fundación Cinemateca Nacional, will have a series of Talks in Community Halls on the African Roots of each community on May 7 to 19; the National Book Center, the Center for Latin American Studies Rómulo Gallegos (CELARG), and the Casa Nacional de la Letras Andrés Bello have also organized talks on the same topic in Lara, Portuguesa, Carabobo, Sucre and Monagas; the Children’s Poetry Festival Nicolás Guillén, and the Forum on Cinema will begin on May 9, as part of the activities for the IV World Poetry festival and the activities to promote reading; the National Council for Culture (CONAC), will organize activities in those states where there are strong African roots within the Cultural Programme for Community Participation. The Programme will organize various activities on weekends in May, including training workshops, gastronomical festivals and a pilgrimage to the Cross.
The Network of Libraries will screen films on the topic in the theaters of the Audiovisual Archives, Amábilis Cordero, Enrique Planchart and Manuel Segundo Sánchez, as well as photography exhibitions, talks, and other activities.
Films Mi Hermano Juan de Dios, El Afinque de Marín, Salto al Atlántico, Veroes cimarrón, and Tambores y resuena San Juan will be exhibited.
The Festivity of the Cross will be sponsored by the Network of Public Libraries and several bands will play music related to African origins.
Finally, on 24 May, the Misión Cultura, will organize a debate on several topics related to Afro-Venezuelan at the Centro Deportivo y Cultural of Mamporal (Miranda).
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