To show the cultural and linguistic diversity, promote peace and celebrate especially the use of the French language is the purpose of the Francophonie Week 2014 to be held here from tomorrow to March 23.

The celebration will include literature, cuisine, music, film, visual arts and theater representative of Francophone countries represented in Cuba, said Camille Barnaud, cultural attache of the embassy of France to the press. 

The program will include conferences by writer Dominique Fernandez, a member of the French Academy and author of relevant books for the literature of his country as Angel's Hand, which earned him the Prix Goncourt in 1982.

Theater will honor the current francophone theater through presentations of Canadian, French and Swiss and Belgian texts, by Cuban directors Carlos Celdran, Carlos Diaz, Flora Lauten and Isabel Bustos, among others, add Barnaud Belgian.

The newly refurbished Teatro Martí will be stage for performing arts shows, directed by French Serge Sandor, with the participation of Francophone artists.

The music will also be included in the celebration's agenda with several presentations at the Cuban headquarters of the French Alliance and the gala concert by singer Orly Solomon, who will pay tribute to Edith Piaf, at the National Theater of Fine Arts, Barnaud reported.