Begins festival Seven Words No to Violence against women
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Photo: PLHavana, March 6.- The fusion of culture and activism will give rise in Cuba to the festival '' Seven Words No to Violence against women '' in greeting to the international women day, their organizers informed today.
Led by the Cuban singer Cucu Diamantes, the meeting scheduled for March 8, has a varied program of activities including lectures, workshops, performances, dance and theater shows, visual art exhibitions and concerts.
According to the anthropologist and historian, Julio César Gonzales Pagés, the Ibero-American and African Network of Masculinities will actively participate in the planned actions, along with the National Center for Sexual Education Cenesex, the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation, the All Countercurrent project and the Movement They travel alone from Costa Rica.
The Festival of Women Seven Words demonstrates the importance of working from the local to support the laws that already exist to guarantee the rights to Equity, said González Pagés.
The Costa Rican singer-songwriter Berenice Jiménez, the psychiatrist Diego Balmaseda, specialists and activists on violence and gender issues such as Manuel Vázquez, González Pagés, María Caridad Cruz and Rochy Ameneiro stand out in the academic program of the meeting.
As part of the day the Clandestina project will carry out the initiative Give me your Pullover with which they intend to print the textile garments along with the performances of Andrea Doimeadiós and Martica Minipunto.
Another proposal will fall to the Ballet Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba, a company characterized by the prominence of women, whose body of children and youth dance composed of girls and young women with skills for dance will be responsible for a special presentation.
The children's theater company La Colmenita also joins the day for non-violence against women, with its usual proposal of community art, which has made it worthy of the title of Ambassador of Good Will by the United Nations Fund for Unicef Childhood.
Likewise, the El Artista Gallery will host the exhibition entitled Soy yo, a project that brings together seven creators (Yeny Brito, Alina Águila, Alejandra González, Alejandra Pino, Laura Llopiz, Greta Reina and Mariangela Aponte) from different branches of the visual arts as design, architecture and painting.
As a closing of the festival, the joint concert of Obbiní Batá, Rochy Ameneiro, Berenice (Costa Rica), Idania Valdés, Madame Butterfly, Brenda Navarrete, Daymé Arocena, Telmary and Habana Sana, Cucu Diamantes, Haila María Mompié and Alain Pérez will take place. as a special guest.
"What will happen in San Isidro Old Havana demonstrates the importance of working by leaning on networks to strengthen the visibility of rights that are not yet available," González Pagés said. (PL)