{"id":3509,"date":"2023-09-11T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrokuba.net\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:06:57","slug":"afrokuba-15-anos-entregados-al-patrimonio-cubano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrokuba.com\/en\/2023\/09\/11\/afrokuba-15-anos-entregados-al-patrimonio-cubano\/","title":{"rendered":"AfroKuba: 15 years dedicated to Cuban heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Jaime Mas\u00f3 Torres<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 29, the ethnovisual project AfroKuba celebrates its first 15 years of foundation. In 2008, the idea of recording through audiovisual materials everything related to music, dance and religion of African origin was born by the hand of Professor Miguel \u00c1ngel Garc\u00eda Velasco, dedicated for many years to the studies of ethnomusicology and musical anthropology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By being part of the UNESCO's Cuban slave route committee, the project promotes the contribution of Africa and its diaspora. In addition, it highlights the work of those who work to preserve the archives and oral traditions related to the slave trade and slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AfroKuba has accumulated more than fifty documentaries to date, including, In the footsteps of the Cuban arar\u00e1s (2010); El Ni\u00f1o de Ca\u00f1amazo (2015); Asere Cr\u00facoro (greetings to those present) produced in 2016 and Sulkary, half a century after 2020. Most of them presented at national and international festivals and available on digital platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Garc\u00eda Velasco, activities began on August 31 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the project. Just on the International Day of Afro-descendants, the Ibero-American Dance Platform (PID) hosted the presentation of Sulkary, half a century later, a tribute to the classic work created by Eduardo Rivero, through the testimonies of six dancers who reveal the circumstances surrounding the conception of that dance piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"In September we began our tour at the University of Cork (Ireland) where we participated in the Symposium on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology and there we presented the documentary Egg\u00fan for Cha ch\u00e1 that will also be exhibited at the University of Istanbul (Turkey) where we have been invited by the International and Audiovisual Association (IASA) and the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM),\" he said.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until September 15 at Istanbul University - the main venue of the IASA Conference and the ICTM-IASA Forum - the AfroKuba ethnovisual project will participate in the debates on the preservation, documentation and safeguarding of traditional music and dance. The program of the event also includes presentations, discussion panels, keynote lectures and guided tours of Turkish libraries and media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"We are pleased to inaugurate the Olorum Irradiando Ach\u00e9 Festival that will take place from September 14 to 17 in Camag\u00fcey with the presentation of the documentary Soy Bertha Armi\u00f1\u00e1n, look for me, in charge of the Master in Sciences Yoil\u00e1n Maceo. It is a tribute that we dedicate to that important artist from Santiago, teacher of generations and a jewel of dance and singing in Cuba,\" said Garc\u00eda Velasco, who is also a member of the UNEAC, of the Scientific Council of the Casa de \u00c1frica Museum and founder of the International Colloquium of Research on African American Religions \"Rafael Robaina Jaramillo\" of the Cuban Institute of Anthropology of Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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