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Cuban Intellectual Criticizes Institutional Intrusion in Carnival

Cuban essayist Graziella Pogolotti described as grave errors committed by institutions when intruding in a feast of popular essence like the carnival.

On the eve of the Day of National Culture, Pogolotti made hers the axiom of "nothing human is alien to me" referring to the carnival with the same commitment she lectures on all cultural issues.

The popular feast is a fundamental element of national identity and comes from down under, the community, but I see a business conception that is not transparent in that regard, warned the researcher.

About the issue and what she considered "the terrible ghost of bureaucracy", she called to put existing resources to reactivate the community, involving culture, education and sports.

Pogolotti said the institution should limit itself to support popular action as spontaneity comes from the base, shared with the delegates to a congress of young Cuban creators and artists.

She alerted that cultural promoters are losing their profile and agreed with filmmaker Julio Garcia Espinosa that each cultural event must be an act made to motivate.

The promoter must know his job and respond to an integrated project that helps to build audiences, the National Literature Prize 2005 emphasized.

She also said libraries and bookshops should be centers that generate activities to stimulate reading habits at early ages, with a reactivated bibliography and a new speech.

Pogolotti said that it is about thought and not money, rebutting the common justification for inertia in Cuba, country blocked for more than half a century by the United States.

The second congress of the Association Hermanos Saiz, that groups the young creative thought in Cuba, concludes today after several months of national debate concentrated in making a better nation.

Source: 

Prensa Latina

Date: 

19/10/2013