Iberoamerican Culture Festival

Iberoamerican Culture Festival

Held every year in Holguín from the 24th to the 30th of October, the Iberoamerican Culture Festival (IACF) is a cultural event meant to render homage to the encounter of the old and the new world. In Cuba, such encounter took place with the arrival of the admiral Christopher Columbus to Bariay Bay, in Holguín Province, on October 27th, 1942.
The iberoamerican festival summons specialists, intellectuals, artists and people from our country and all Iberoamerica who are interested in maintaining an enriched cultural dialog within this space of art and reflection.
Carried out within the Festival, the Iberoamerican Thought Congress is a space of scientific debate dealing with our identity.
Sponsored by Iberoamerican house and the Provincial Direction of Culture, an Organizing Committee will be in charge of the event, which, at the same time, will be headed by Alexis Triana as President, Tatiana Zúñiga Góngora as Vice-president in charge of the General Event Organization, Msc Nurys Valcárcel in charge of the Project and General Advisory, Eng. Alberto Fernandez and Lic Ernesto Angulo as OPC (*)
Origin and Basis.
The festival is born in 1993, by initiative of the former Minister of Culture Armando Hart Dávalos, to celebrate the V Centennial of the encounter of the Two Worlds, and its core is the growing development of the relations of Cuba with the nations of Latin America, as well as the development of the Iberoamerican Summits, signs of the beginnings of a new cultural and political conscience in the area.
As the main cultural projection of this event, the common cultural historic roots joining the nations which form this culturally diverse community will be underlined.
This year the Fourteenth Edition of the festival will make special emphasis in the cultures of the countries that formed The Great Colombia, Bolivar's dream of Latin-American integration, a region nowadays comprising the countries of Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Equator, to which we are joined by cultural, and filial bonds as well as a common history.
Objectives
1. To deepen in the study, identification and diffusion of the cultural historical roots that unite and qualify our Latin American people, through the development of the Third Latin American Thought Congress to be held during the festival.
2. To promote a broad and diverse spectrum of artistic actions that reflects the variety of cultures composing the Latin American community, in whose development the institutions and the professional talent can be linked systematic and harmonically.
3. To encourage, during the development of the IACF, the popular participation in institutions, parks and squares, allowing the incorporation and presence of the people in the cultural event and in the related artistic actions.
4. To diffuse the cultural potential of the territory (professional and amateur) through its direct participation in the actions and spectacles of the IACF and the contacts established with the artists, personalities and guests taking part of the event.
Strategy.
The Cultural project of the XIV Iberoamerican Culture Festival (IACF) undertakes the main cultural historic elements of the countries conforming the Great Colombia, Bolivar's dream of Latin-American integration, region that nowadays gathers the countries of Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Equator, to which we are joined by cultural and filial bonds as well as a common history, making special emphasis on the values of the new culture that resulted from the mixture brought about by the encounter, a new culture that grows based on the common points of view as well as the distinguishing characteristics.
To carry out the project, the criterion of specialists of the different spheres of art, culture and history were consulted, in order to endow the program with an interdisciplinary and scientific character.
The group of consulted specialists is integrated by Dr Maria Dolores Ortiz, specialist in Cuban culture; Pablo Armando Fernandez, poet; Dr. Eduardo Torres Cuevas; Dr. Jesus Guanche; Dr Jose Luis Moreno, poet; Lic. Jorge Noble and Lic Cosme Proenza, painters; Dr. Carlos Cordoba, social studies specialist; Msc Xiomara Grazon; Lic Jose Novoa Betancourt, historian; Dr. Jose Vega Suñol, art history specialist; Lic Haydee Toirac, specialist in cultural studies, and many other intellectuals and executives of the province.
For the development of the artistic program we will use the professional and amateur talent of the Province, as well as the invited artistic groups, trying to link the communities in common actions, from all age groups, and turn them into the main protagonists of the project.
Characterization.
In its development, the Iberoamerican Culture Festival (IACF) is a versatile and multi institutional project which gathers a harmonic assembly of communitary, artistic, and theoretical actions generated by each of the public cultural institutions and NGOs of the province which are interested on the event, according to their profile, centering on the general objectives proposed. This work has the City of Holguín as main headquarters, although it is supported by some institutions of the municipalities of Gibara, Rafael Freyre and Banes, where collateral actions of touristic, historic, and cultural interest are carried out.
Each year and as a way of promoting a warmer and deeper approach at the proposal of the Organizing Committee, the IACF is generally dedicated to a Latin-American country and to a region of the Iberian Peninsula. This does not mean to overlook the other countries and regions that certainly deserve and have earned our recognition; these countries participate with delegations, which will have adequate spaces in the program of the event.
Characterization of Each Day during the Festival:
The characterization of each day of the Festival was carried out from cultural and historic concepts, conveniently applied according to the sense and purpose of the present project.
October 24: Festival of the Seed. Taking its name after a phrase said by the famous writer Alejo Carpentier, this day of the festivity recreates the fundamental cultural roots of the Latin American world born in October 28, 1492, which are the aboriginal, Spanish, and African cultures. This year, the “return to the seed” will be mainly about the pre-Colombian American cultures.
October 25: Festival of the Young Artists. Specially dedicated to the fundamental clay of our work, as Ernesto Che Guevara called the young people, in this day our youngest values express their talent, as precursors of the future. Also, projects for children will be carried out.
October 26: Festival of the Dummy. Named after the memory of the classical days of carnival, in which it was a regional custom to build and show dummies representing youth, death, etc., in actions of celebration. Recreating this tradition, the Festival of the Dummy becomes a communitary project linked to the Iberoamerican Culture parade, in which the invited delegations will be able to incorporate their own traditional dummies.
October 27: Festival of the Guitar. Through this Arabian instrument, we synthesize all the cultural influence coming from the Old world, which came to our shores on 1942. The guitar has become in one of the main musical instrument within the culture of the New World and it is the favourite instrument regarding the country side folklore.
October 28: Festival of Solidarity. Dedicated to emphasize on all the cultural and historic signification of the Hispanic-Portuguese America; the “New Peoples” as Martí called them, this day's activities focus on the celebration and strengthening of the ties of friendship and solidarity among the peoples with a common identity: Latin American.
III Iberoamerican Thought Congress.
The III Iberoamerican Thought Congress is celebrated during the Iberoamerican Culture Festival, event that takes place since 1992 in the Cuban province of Holguín . Specialists of diverse countries gather to reflect on the meaning and historic-cultural significance of the encounter between the Old and the New Worlds.
With the objective of expanding and deepening in the ideas related to the development of the Iberoamerican way of thinking, this Congress will be dedicated to the Bolivarian project of integration The Great Colombia, and to the analysis of the ideas and problems of the Cuban culture and way of thinking, in a dialogue with the universe. Convoked by the Subsidiary House of Superior Studies Fernando Ortiz, in Holguín, the Upgrading Center, The José Martí Program Supporters Office -presided by the doctor Armando Hart Dávalos- and the Iberoamerican House, the III Iberoamerican Thought Congress will be carried out between the 25th and the 26th of October,2006. The Doctor in Historic Sciences Eduardo Torres Cuevas, President of the Fernando Ortiz House of Superior Studies of the University of Havana, director of Imagen Contemporanea Editions and his magazine Debates Americanos, is the President of Honour of this Congress, that will have as main topic the integration way of thinking: history and significance. On this topic we will have different debate forums:
Forum #1 Thinking the ideas and the culture of The Great Colombia's integration project.
Forum # 2 The Cuban way of thinking: results and perspectives.
Forum # 3Regional cultures and ways of thinking.
Interactive participation is available at our website www.baibrama.cult.cu, where a forum with the topics mentioned above will be functioning. Works with no more than five pages can also be sent via email before September 30th, 2006, in operative systems compatible with Windows.

Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoamericana

Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoamericana

A desarrollarse en Holguín, la Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoamericana constituye un hecho cultural, conmemorativo del encuentro mutuo entre las culturas del Viejo y del Nuevo Mundo, que en el caso cubano, se produce al arribar el Almirante Cristóbal Colón a la Bahía de Bariay, ubicada en la actual Provincia de Holguín, el 27 de octubre de 1492.
Cada año, la Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoamericana, se dedica a resaltar la cultura de una región iberica y a un país latinoamericano.
Auspiciado por la Dirección Provincial de Cultura y la Casa de Iberoamérica, el evento funcionará bajo la dirección de un Comité Organizador encabezado por Lic. Alexis Triana como Presidente.
Objetivos1- Profundizar en el estudio, identificación y difusión de las raíces histórico-culturales comunes y peculiares, que unen e identifican a nuestros pueblos Iberoamericanos, mediante el desarrollo de eventos, talleres, conferencias y acciones culturales, artísticas y de pensamiento a efectuarse antes y durante la Fiesta.
2- Promover un amplio y variado espectro de acciones artísticas que reflejen el mosaico de culturas que integran la comunidad Iberoamericana, en cuyo desarrollo se vinculen sistemática y armónicamente las Instituciones y el talento profesional y artístico de la región.
3- Propiciar en el desarrollo de la FCIA la participación popular en las instituciones, centros y plazas, que permitan la incorporación y protagonismo de las masas en el hecho cultural de las acciones artísticas.
4- Difundir el potencial cultural del territorio (profesional y aficionado) a través de su participación directa en las acciones y espectáculos de la FIA y en los contactos que se establezcan con los artistas, personalidades e invitados que participen en el evento.