Under the slogan \u201cTodos somos rumberos y cimarrones,\u201d and with red as the festival\u2019s signature promotional color, the 18th edition of Timbalaye: The Rumba Route will take place from August 19 to 30 at various venues across Havana.<\/p>\n
The festival, which seeks to highlight the historical strength of Afro-descendant communities and their legacy of resistance, will center its program on cimarronaje<\/em>, recognized as one of the most significant historical and spiritual pillars of Caribbean identity, according to a post by the National Council of Houses of Culture on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n The festival will officially open on Wednesday, August 19, at 10:00 a.m. local time in the Sal\u00f3n de Mayo at Pabell\u00f3n Cuba. Poet and ethnologist Dr. Miguel Barnet will take part in a conversation with young artists from the Hermanos Sa\u00edz Association about the process of cimarronaje<\/em>.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s festival pays tribute to the 60th anniversary of the first edition of Biography of a Runaway Slave<\/em>, Barnet\u2019s landmark work. The book recounts the life of Esteban Montejo, considered the last cimarr\u00f3n known to have been documented, in 1963.<\/p>\n The following day, Thursday, August 20, at 10:00 a.m. local time, Dr. Miguel Barnet will be the keynote speaker at the International Symposium Cimarronaje: Living Memory, to be held at the Casa de \u00c1frica in Havana\u2019s Historic Center. The symposium will also feature Mexican scholar Dr. Patricia Gonz\u00e1lez and Italian scholar Dr. Elena Zapponi.<\/p>\n At 5:00 p.m. local time, the Jose\u00edto Fern\u00e1ndez Cultural Center will host an afternoon concert featuring performances by professional and amateur artists.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s edition will also feature community activities at the Jose\u00edto Fern\u00e1ndez Cultural Center, Callej\u00f3n de Hamel, the Quisicuaba Project in the municipality of Centro Habana, and Pabell\u00f3n Cuba.<\/p>\n Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Under the slogan \u201cTodos somos rumberos y cimarrones,\u201d and with red as the festival\u2019s signature promotional color, the 18th edition of Timbalaye: The Rumba Route will take place from August 19 to 30 at various venues across Havana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1205],"ppma_author":[244],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-timbalaye"],"authors":[{"term_id":244,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"edelvis-lopez-zaldivar","display_name":"Edelvis L\u00f3pez Zald\u00edvar","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}