The city of Santiago de Cuba, located in the east of the island country, is ready to receive the 44th edition of the Caribbean Festival: Fire Fiesta, which will take place from July 3 to 9; So far, the most numerous delegation is the Mexican, with more than 200 representatives, the organizers in conference in Mexico City reported yesterday.
The guest country of honor this year will be Curacao, and the participation of delegations of more than 20 nations is expected, of which those of the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Brazil and Colombia, as well as Germany and a contingent of Valencia, Spain, have confirmed their assistance.
According to the researcher Abelardo Larduet Luaces, of the Casa del Caribe, the Festival has managed to consolidate in a space for meeting, knowledge and recognition not only for the countries of the region, but for all those of the American continent and, in general, those interested in this part of the planet.
It is the Caribbean party, but it is not limited only to him, but to those spaces of the world that want to share what the Caribbean’s experience is, how it develops, how close we are, why we belong or our existence is due to the same suffering, which is key: slavery
said the specialist in sociordious studies.
When I talk about Caribbean feeling I am talking about the fact that German, Russian and Chinese groups are also attended by these cultures and this party; They want to know how the other is.
Pondered to meet An open window
in which all participants look out and when they do it, they drink from culture from a determined geographical space such as the Caribbean.
Keep in mind that the Caribbean is not only the islands, but those spaces of the mainland that are bathed by the sea of the same name, and I would say that more, when covering all those who interacted in that tragedy that was the trafficking of slaves and the colonization of America.
According to Abelardo Larduet, this meeting around the traditional popular culture of the Caribbean, initiated in 1981 and of which Mexico has been invited to honor three times, the most recent in 2023, is A space for social dignification
When discrimination does not fit in it: There we are all the same. We are children of the same suffering
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The General Director of the Center for Studies of African Cultures, Francisco Mariano Pérez, and the Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of Cuba in Mexico, Norma Rodríguez Derivet, who stressed that the Fire of Fire is An important confrontation of ideas about our identity and a deep reflection on those men and women who came from Africa and gave their lives, all the effort of the world, and suffered a lot for us to be today who we are who we are
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The programming is divided into a cultural-artistic segment (with music, dance and oral narratives, as well as plastic and craft exhibitions, ceremonies and rituals, among others) and another academic.
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