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More than 200 Cuban Artists will Perform in Cultural Event in U.S.A
28March
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More than 200 Cuban Artists will Perform in Cultural Event in U.S.A

More than 200 Cuban artists will travel from this capital city to Washington to perform in the festival ''Artes de Cuba'', from May 8th to June 3rd, said today vice Minister of Culture Fernando Rojas.

Cuban artists settled in Cuba and abroad will perform in the festival seeking to highlight arts and the broad Cuban culture through traditional and contemporary expressions of music, dance, theater, cinema, visual arts, design, fashion and gastronomy.

Omara Portuondo, one of the most representative figures of the traditional Cuban music, will open the festival with music, joined later by dance companies Ballet Nacional de Cuba (BNC), Malpaso and Irene Rodriguez.

Rojas said in a press conference that this type of exchanges support the idea that culture is an expression of people of goodwill yearning for peace, particularly the people from the two countries.

'Culture unites many peoples, nations, and we think that an event like this is important at a time when exchange activities are decreasing in number,' he added.

Rojas praised the skills of those performing in the festival, sharing the common issue of being trained in the Cuban artistic education system, which is free and with results recognized around the world.

According to Rojas, the Cuban Ministry of Culture expects the event to be a great performance for the people and a contribution to the improvement of relations between the two countries.

The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, the staff of which Rojas praised for their professionalism and respect while coordinating each of the performances, will hold the festival 'Artes de Cuba: From the Island to the World'.

According to the official program, the festival will be starred by Aldo Lopez-Gavilan, the Miguel Failde Orchestra, Zule Guerra and Quinteto Blues de Habana, Aymee Nuviola, Haydee and Pablo Milanes, Los Van Van, the Lopez-Nussa family, Arturo O'Farrill and Afro Latin Jazz Emsemble, La Dame Blanche, Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban.

Theater groups El Publico and Argos Teatro will also stage plays, and Cuban cinema classics such as 'Memorias del subdesarrollo' (1968), 'Retrato de Teresa' (1979) and 'Lucia' (1968) will be screened, as well as feature films awarded prizes during the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, held in Havana.