The 7th Timbalaye International Forum started in Italy

HAVANA, Cuba, May 20 (ACN) The 7th Timbalaye International Forum began on Sunday in Italy and will run until May 25, under the slogan Cuba in motion: Reflections in anthropology, literature, music and dance, based enslaved people on the Routes.

Under the leadership of master Miguel Barnet Lanza, Cuban poet, narrator, essayist and ethnologist, president of the Fernando Ortiz Foundation, this edition will reach the cities of Tarquinia, Rome, Baia Domizia and Passo Oscuro.

Ulises Mora Valiña, president of the Timbalaye International Promoter of Cuban Culture project, told the Cuban News Agency exclusively that Barnet, which is the Pagugu stick with which Timbalaye always invokes ancestral memory, will present on this occasion “Cimarron-biography of a slave”, recently republished in Italian.

Through anthropology, sociology, literature and the arts of dance, this forum will show the significance of this literary jewel in its 86 editions and, in turn, demonstrate that Cuba will always be the heart of something universal that radiates light, unity and solidarity in all parts. of the world, said the renowned Afro-Cuban dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.

In collaboration with the Italian Association Semi di Pace, the National Association of Friendship Italy Cuba and under the auspices of the Embassy of Cuba in Italy, the Forum is in line with the Objective of the Heritage of African Heritage (OPLA by its Spanish acronym), adopted by Timbalaye. in January 2019, and through which it projects all its operations until 2029, to claim and capitalize on the historical-cultural heritage of the African heritage of Cuba.

Timbalaye is a project that includes and never excludes, and through this forum invites us to think and be aware of peace, humanism, social justice, anti-racism, unity, dignity, solidarity and all those feelings and values ​​that contribute to awareness and search. new ways to fight racism and discrimination, said Mora Valiña.