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Guanacaste Blooms With Culture In April and
May
Guanacaste Blooms With Culture In April and
May
(InfoWebPress) – The last few days of April
and the upcoming month of May, Guanacaste
will have a full agenda of cultural events.
Among them is the International Dance Week,
which will be held April 28-May 2. The
activity will have the presence of regional
and national art groups, in addition to some
invited companies from Nicaragua.
This is the ninth year the International
Dance Week will be held in Guanacaste. The
event includes several activities around the
art of movement that allow students,
dancers, choreographers and dance directors
from all over the province plus guests from
parts of the country, promoting closer ties
in the dance community. There will be
functions, workshops, conversations and
other activities.
Guest performer this year will be dancer
Mimi Gonzalez, who has spent 30 years
dancing at the professional level as founder
and permanent member of the National Dance
Company, also representing the country
overseas. She has visited various
communities in the province teaching dance
workshops and offering performances herself.
The Dance Week is organized by the dance
department at Liberia’s Felipe Perez Arts
High School, with support from the
Guanacaste Regional Culture Office of the
Ministry of Culture and Youth, the National
Distance Learning University (UNED), and the
Guanacaste campus of the University of Costa
Rica (UCR).
Another event, which began in early April,
is the so-called “Peñas Culturales,” which
are night meetings to share music, stories,
poetry, theater, dance and other artistic
presentations.
The “Peñas” are spaces that allow local as
well as regional and national artists to
express themselves, thus strengthening the
production and consumption of culture and
identity-affirming efforts in Guanacaste.
This, in turn, helps reinforce the
communities’ values and cultural diversity.
Another goal of this event is to show the
province’s cultural products and the local
cultural promoters’ production and promotion
capabilities.
So far, there have been “Peñas” organized in
Liberia’s Central Park, the Filadelfia
parochial hall and the Public Library. The
series will conclude on April 29 at the
Nicoya Park’s kiosk starting at 7 p.m. with
the presentation of the Peña Caleidoscopio.
In addition to these activities, the
Proartes fund for scenic arts has begun the
process of receiving proposals for funding.
Proposal submission will end on May 8.
Artists can submit proposals at San Jose’s
Melico Salazar Popular Theater, second
floor, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Another cultural activity, the inauguration
of the Nandayure Culture House, was held
last April 17. The Culture House is located
in Nandayure’s Central Park, right below the
kiosk. The inauguration was attended by
culture groups from the canton, government
and municipal representatives, community
leaders and others interested in opening up
spaces for arts and culture in Nandayure.
Another effort that took place in April was
a meeting to organize an association aimed
at rescuing and protecting popular culture
in Guanacaste.
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