The Petronio Álvarez Pacific Music Festival will be present from next week at the African Performing Arts Market (Masa).
The organization of the contest, managed by the researcher Germán Patiño Ossa, will bring all its cultural heritage, as well as the richness of its sounds and the ancestrality of its flavors to this event that will take place in the Ivory Coast, from this Saturday until the 12th of same month.
(You may be interested in: The Petronio Álvarez Festival prepares changes in its gastronomic component)
The director of Petronio Álvarez, Ana Copete, explained that el Masa is a cultural platform aimed at promoting African performing arts, whose main purpose is to support issues related to the creativity and productions of black demonstrations.
Given this scenario and as a way to recognize the cultural process that has been advanced since the Colombian Pacific festival, the Masa decided to have it among its guests.
“We are going to have the opportunity to tell programmers from all over the African continent what Petronio Álvarez is and the opportunities for the exchange of knowledge that we have, opening new possibilities of circulation. This is how we are expanding our twinning networks with Afro-diasporic platforms in the world”, affirmed Copete.
(Also read: Scare due to electrical damage in the Departmental Library)
The Cali Secretariat of Culture highlights the leadership of this Cali cultural platform, which, under the direction of Ana Copete, has gained significant momentum since 2020, taking into account the difficulties generated by the pandemic in the world. That is why he assured that he will bring to the Masa the emblematic elements of the coastal culture, as well as his experiences.
Ana Copete, director of the festival.
COURTESY ANA COPETE
“Entering these international cultural circuits represents an important step for Petronio Álvarez, who for this 2022 has announced an innovative, powerful version, which is committed to the expansion of culture and the circulation of its artists on the world scene”, they highlight from the Secretary of Culture of the city.
The organization of the Petronio Álvarez Festival is already working on what will be this year’s edition. One of his first decisions was to have a friendly bet with the environment and in its gastronomic component.
“We dream of an oxygenated Petronium and that is why we have coordinated with those who know that the Festival says goodbye to single-use plastic. This is an exercise in responsibility with the planet and pedagogy towards the entire country,” argued the Secretary of Culture of Cali Ronald Mayorga.
CALI
