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Culture
Updated
25/11/09
Time
06:48 p.m. |
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Creative Youth from Latin America to Meet in
Cuba |
Havana, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of the
youngest generations of writers and artists of Latin
America and the Caribbean will meet here in December, to
close the festivities on the 50th anniversary of Casa de
las Americas.
Under the slogan House Taken (Casa Tomada) creatives
under 40 from 13 countries will hold a direct dialogue
and will update their knowledge of the widest variety in
art tendencies and thought of these times.
We are filling the Casa with life, a casa in great
movement, said in a press conference the eventos
coordinator, Jaime Gomez Triana, who added they intend
to open spaces of reflection.
Until this date, about 20 personalities of diverse
expressions confirmed their participation, like
Uruguayan writer Gabriel Schutz, Argentinean narrator
and poet Washington Cucurto, Mexican journalist Gloria
Muñoz and the Dominican fine artist Raquel Paiewonsky.
Also to attend are photographer and documentary director
Alejandro Ramirez of Guatemala, the theoreticiand and
ethnomusicologist Alejandro Madrid of Mexico, Bolivian
playwright Diego Aramburo and Ecuadorean poet Santiago
Vizcaino, the youngest participant at 27 years.
According to the organizing committee, the exchange of
points of view will focus on topics like new languages,
aesthetics, migrations, cultural resistance, the
influence of the massive communication media and the
challenges and responsibility of todays intellectuals,
among others.
From December 14 to 18, in Casa Tomada will take part
not only writers but also artists like the Puerto Rican
08 theater group. The first of these encounters took
place in 1983 with the participation of writers born in
the 50s, among them the Nicaraguan Omar Cabezas, Puerto
Rican Oliverio Hinojosa, and Cubans Leonardo Padura,
Senel Paz and Arturo Arango.
Then they shared criteria with outstanding figures like
the deceased Uruguayan poet, novelist and essayist,
Mario Benedetti. |
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