Registration for Guanacastearte Culture
Regional Festival 2009 now open
(InfoWebPress ) The Guanacaste Regional
Culture Office has begun the registration
process for the 2009 Guanacastearte
Festival, a project that started last year
with the goal of promoting the province’s
artistic and cultural development so that
more professional-quality productions are
generated.
The 2nd Guanacastearte Culture Regional
Festival will take place in the city of
Hojancha next Nov. 12-14. The festival will
include three different venues featuring
dance, folkloric expressions, music,
theater, puppets, storytelling, film, visual
art exhibits, small business fairs, and
more.
The festival’s objective is to put on stage
quality work by Guanacaste artists as well
as invited artists from other parts of the
country and other countries, said Vera
Vargas Leon, of the Guanacaste Regional
Culture Office — which is part of the
Ministry of Culture and Youth.
Artists interested in being part of the
festival need to send an audio CD (for
music), a DVD (for dance, theater, oral
narration, folklore, music, film), or a
CR-ROM (for visual arts, painting,
sculpture, and related productions)
containing the work they will present. Those
materials will be given to a panel of
judges, who will evaluate the work and
select participants by Oct. 8.
This call for art is directed at solo
artists and groups with a track record at
the regional, national or international
level and whose work is professionally done.
Each scenic piece can be from one hour to
one hour and half hours long.
Although there is no limit in the number of
group members, there is a limit in the
number of groups that can be accepted to
participate in the festival.
The three venues this year are the Hojancha
Municipal Gymnasium (scenic arts), the main
stage of the city’s central park (music and
folkloric groups playing live music); the
main area of the central park (culture/art
small business fair); and the CEMPRODECA
headquarters (literature, film,
storytelling, etc.).
Each participating group will provide
technical details about their work to the
audience. The festival’s organizers will
take are of technical needs, such as
dressing rooms, lighting, sound, and others.
All artists and groups will receive a
certificate of participation. For regional
groups, they will be given time for meals
right after their performances. National and
international groups will have all their
lodging and meal expenses covered by the
organizers.
This year, all presentations will be free to
the public, and there will be no
registration fee for artists and groups.
Those registering for the festival are being
asked to present details about their
expected expenses so that organizers can
evaluate if they can cover their costs.
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