Alexander de la Torre Gómez, director of the Provincial Center of Houses of Culture, commented that this event seeks to honor the autochthonous values of the Cuban nation, and presents as another of its top activities the visit to the Temple House of Pablo Hernández Gómez, president of the Yoruba Association in Camagüey
Camagüey, Cuba, Aug 30th.- The personal exhibition No importa el color de la piel, by the artist Ebenecer Semé Santiago, marked the beginning of the XV edition of the Timbalaye La Ruta de la Rumba International Festival, which will take place in this city until today.
In the Alejo Carpentier Art Gallery of the main city, these works are exhibited that show the strength of the image of the black woman in her pre-colonial dresses, which make her universal and current, between costumes, fabrics and ancestral maternity, persistent in space and time.
The folkloric smile and perennial joy of the black man and woman are out of the brush, before which Semé Santiago, an emerging and versatile artist, invites visual co-creation through images that identify him with a new version that confirms the polysemy of art.
Alexander de la Torre Gómez, director of the Provincial Center of Houses of Culture, commented that this event seeks to honor the autochthonous values of the Cuban nation, and presents as another of its top activities the visit to the Temple House of Pablo Hernández Gómez, president of the Yoruba Association in Camagüey, where the presence of this religion in the territory is analyzed.
In the Casino Campestre urban park and accompanied by Afro-Cuban music, the Raíces meeting will take place, with the presentation of members of the Movement of Amateur Artists and rumba shows from the Aires de Bahía projects and the musical groups Rumberos de la Alameda and Rumbalaroye.
Tomorrow the Nuevo Mundo room will host the theoretical session Along the rumba route, and then the conversation the presence of the rumba in Camagüey, under the leadership of Reynaldo Echemendía Estrada, director of the Camagüey Folkloric Ballet.
The rumba is within our guidelines in the work of music and dance manifestations, all the work carried out by our art instructors through workshops and the formation of artistic units is a priority within heritage, indicated Gómez Torres.
The exhibition and sale of books are also planned and, as a climax, the presentation of the Rumbatá group as a faithful exponent of this artistic manifestation this Wednesday at 5:00 pm in the Plaza del Gallo in the city.
Acknowledgments to outstanding promoters are included in the program of the event where researchers and scholars of the Yoruba religion participate, who will also discuss the Batá drums and their sounds as the essence of Cuban cultural identity.
(ACN)