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Feast of Fire Dedicated to Martinique Starts in Santiago de
Cuba
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, July 3
(acn) Artists, scholars and groups representing the folk
culture of more than 30 nations will participate from today
in a week of celebrations at the the 32 Caribbean Festival,
also known as Feast of Fire, in its usual venue of Santiago
de Cuba.
Heredia Theater,
in this eastern city, some 750 kilometers east of Havana,
will host the opening ceremony of the famous festivities,
whose activities
will be devoted this time to the culture of the island of
Martinique.
Personalities with the delegation from Martinique, about 350
guests, will
officiate with Orlando Verges, director of the Casa del
Caribe, the
opening of the holiday that will run through July 9 along
more than 1 350
foreign participants.
During this initial day they will also declare open the
House of
Martinique, which these days show the people of Santiago and
foreign
guests much of the history and culture of the homeland of
the great poet
Aimé Césaire, a champion of the negritude movement.
The Casa del Caribe International Award will be granted to
several groups
representing the traditional folk culture in Eastern Cuba:
Santiago
Ballet, the Kokoyé Folk Group (carnival music), the Azabache
group, the
Water Ballet, and the Guancho band(traditional trova).
Also, the sculptor Alberto Santiago Lescay-author of the
statue of Cuban
patriot Antonio Maceo, located in the main square of this
city, will
inaguarte on the eve of the Caribbean party an exhibition of
his latest works.
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