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Guanacastearte Took The City of Hojancha
(InfoWeb Press) The II Regional Cultural
Festival Guanacastearte 2009 took place in
the city of Hojancha from the 12 to the 14th
of November and had three stages where
various dance, folklore, theater, music,
puppet, and taletelling presentations,
movies, visual arts shows, microbusiness
fair and others took place.
Guanacastearte is a project that arose 5
years ago as a necessity from the cultural
sector of Guanacaste to project the
professional, high quality level artistic
work that is produced in this province. The
project came about in 2008 backed by the
Regional Cultural Office of Guanacaste and
the Cultural Department of the Ministry of
Culture and Youth and the participating
artists.
“Today, this being the second consecutive
year, this regional cultural festival is
taking place and the canton of Hojancha is
hosting the same, with a valuable communal
work team made up of different social and
institutional actors, that have preoccupied
themselves to be participants of, in
practice, of a learning and feedback process
in the communal artistic production”,
pointed out Vera Vargas León, from the
Regional Culture Office of Guanacaste.
This year there were three stages: The
Municipal Gymnasium of Hojancha (scenic
arts), and the main stage of the central
park (music and folklore music groups with
live music); the esplanade of the central
park (micro artistic and cultural business
fair) and the facilities of CEMPRODECA
(literature, shows, movies, conversations,
bull session, others).
This festival continues its tour through
Guanacaste and from now expect to continue
going around, for that we will have as a
base town, the canton of Abangares (2010).
With that, access to the cultural offering
will be more democratic, help push the
production and teamwork efforts of the
diverse social actors of the community
contributing to strengthen the promotion
processes, production and cultural
management”, added Vargas.
On this occasion the shows that took place
were totally free and no sign up fee was
charged to the participating groups and
artists. The festival aims at taking to the
stage professional quality work that the
artists of Guanacaste and national and
international guests have developed.
“From the heart I appreciate the
participating artists, cultural promoters,
comunal leaders, businesses and institutions
that have collaborated with the production
of the festival, thanks to those who keep
believing that investing resources in
culture is necessary and just and that with
that the culture and identity of the people
and societies of the current globalized
system will be strengthened. A hug to all of
the inhabitants of Hojancha that are our
main objective and whom we owe to make the
festival a real success. To all thos that
visit us feel at home and feel cordially
welcome to enjoy from this rain of art at
Guanacastearte”, finalized Vargas León.
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