Guantanamo.- On January 28, the 35th edition of the Guantánamo-Baracoa Theater Crusade will begin that is dedicated to traits of indigenous in Cuban culture and to Brazil, for the preservation of its native cultures and to the 172nd birth anniversary of the Apostle José Martí, an event that will extend until March 3 with an artistic journey through more than a hundred mountain communities.
During the press conference about the event, Emilio Vizcaíno Ávila, director of the Guantánamo-Baracoa Theater Crusade reported that on this occasion as guest artists are Teatro La Proa, from Havana, with its Vía Láctea project; the groups Campanada and Gestus, from Santiago de Cuba; as well as the foreign group Zirtaka, from the Basque Country, and the Argentine artists Aracelis Márquez and Damián Pendino.
Representing the local artists will be the groups Guiñol Guantánamo, La Barca, the Carpandilla Circus Variety Company, the Babul Folkloric Ballet, and a team of teachers and students from the School of Art Instructors of the province will also join, together with students from the Dramatic Art Academies of Bayamo and Havana.
The Theatrical Crusade will travel, as is tradition, through the municipalities of Manuel Tames, Yateras, San Antonio del Sur, Imías, Maisí and Baracoa, where the organizers of this project plan to perform more than 150 performances, with a special program in regions affected by the passage of Hurricane Oscar, as well as in recently established and changing communities.
The second meeting of the audiovisual section “Cruzando el Lente,” with the screening of a compendium of documentaries, will also distinguish this 35th edition of the Guantánamo-Baracoa Theater Crusade, as well as the Diálogos Abiertos workshops and debates, the sixth Meeting of Creative Women, with the presence of critic and researcher Vivian Martínez Tabares, and the virtual section of the event from digital platforms, sponsored by the Provincial Council of Performing Arts and the Venceremos Newspaper.
