Guantanamo.- The wide corridor of the Guantánamo Provincial Museum was the ideal setting to culminate the celebration, this Friday, November 29, of the 41st anniversary of the founding of the institution, with the performance of the Guantanamo expressions of music and dance, rooted in Haitian culture and traditions, with a great heritage in the easternmost territory of Cuba.
The groups Assossyé and Los Cossiá, representing the Association of Haitians and descendants in the territory, enlivened the activity with merengue, eliancé and masún, which concluded with voodoo, a vibrant music and dance and ancestral strength and heritage.
Before the audience, composed of specialists from the Provincial Museum and the local Cultural Heritage institutional network, among others, the pioneers of the Enrique José Varona primary school presented a choir dedicated to Fidel Castro, within the framework of the day of tribute for the eighth anniversary of his physical disappearance on November 25, 2016.
The Provincial Museum of Guantánamo, once a prison in the colonial epoch between 1861-1862, has turned into a cultural facility that has permanent exhibition halls where valuable exponents of pre-Columbian cultures, of the independence wars, natural heritage and decorative arts are displayed, a faithful reflection of the roots and traditions of the Guantanamo people.
