By: Octavio Borges
The mega project Detrás del muro (Behind the wall), one of the most interactive and popular ones of the 12th Havana Biennial, will close next Sunday with a big party all along Havana's Malecón. In exclusive statements to AIN News Agency, Juan Delgado Calzadilla, promoter of this initiative, and its curator in the two previous editions, reported the festivities with music of different genres, performing arts, dance, and audiovisual screenings and, naturally, visual arts will start from 4:00 p.m.
He also said that pantomime will be present at Maceo Park, as the National Concert Band will be on the corner of Malecón and Prado streets, traditional trova music on Galiano, where the popular sculpture Primavera, by Rafael San Juan is erected, and the Band of Caturla Conservatory on Campanario Street, beside Cubo azul, by Rachel Valdés.
Later on, we will have the performance of a jazz band from the art schools, and, across Terral hotel, the Acento Band.
It has also been announced the performance of the Litz Alfonso dance company, with the choreography Bailando—music by Descemer Bueno—at Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura, while at 9 pm, there will be a video art at Café Neruda,on the corner of ¡ Malecón and Campanario Streets.
Calzadilla also stressed that Behind the wall confirms, once more, people's need to be directly related to arts, although there is still a lot to do as regards to formal education and social discipline, so that the works exhibited in this crowded area of the country's capital are not damaged.
He said to be satisfied with the idea which has fructified in such a crowded space for the enjoyment of the senses, on behalf of meetings, reunions, dialogue, meditation and reflection, thanks to this efficient cultural project.
He underscored this experience highlights the important social mission of art in a very practical and accessible way, where people know these expressions of intellect and spirit may help so much, and provide with alternatives and solutions to individual and collective problems.
His greatest dream is that Malecón becomes a huge cultural space for art expressions, not only during biennials, without having no other attraction that the healthy feast of the senses, intellect, emotions, and the possibility of talking, and even argue amid an appropriate environment.
Source: AIN
