The Cuban minister of Culture, Abel Prieto, declared that the members countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas.
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- 02 / 04 / 2008
" What is happening today with the popular cultures is that they are either assumed as a pseudo Folklore - its authentic roots is eliminated - or are simple forgotten by the great mechanisms of the art reproduction", he indicated.
" One of the most difficult things today is the distribution", said " because this area is really completely covered by the circuits of the hegemonic industry. Today you can in a relatively cheap way produce a movie, but nobody will know you did it".
Prieto indicated that " the ALBA is going to emphasis in this topic, distribution of books, movies, craftworks and plastic arts in general; the idea is to consolidate the alternative circuits to have influence in the cultural tastes and hierarchies of the people".
" The most important is to organize those popular cultures, is to people to decolonize in cultural terms and to support those nucleus of cultural resistance in our countries, not to invent things where the things are already invented," he mentioned.
The official assured that the Cuban experience will be at disposal of this project, the Casa de Las Americas, as the precedent of the ALBA Cultural Project, the New Latin American Film Festival and the Havana Biennale exhibition.
The experience of all our institutions, writers, artists and avant-garde intellectuals are at disposal of this Project, we all must learn from the rest and the most important is that there is the spirit to do it, he specified.
(PL)
" One of the most difficult things today is the distribution", said " because this area is really completely covered by the circuits of the hegemonic industry. Today you can in a relatively cheap way produce a movie, but nobody will know you did it".
Prieto indicated that " the ALBA is going to emphasis in this topic, distribution of books, movies, craftworks and plastic arts in general; the idea is to consolidate the alternative circuits to have influence in the cultural tastes and hierarchies of the people".
" The most important is to organize those popular cultures, is to people to decolonize in cultural terms and to support those nucleus of cultural resistance in our countries, not to invent things where the things are already invented," he mentioned.
The official assured that the Cuban experience will be at disposal of this project, the Casa de Las Americas, as the precedent of the ALBA Cultural Project, the New Latin American Film Festival and the Havana Biennale exhibition.
The experience of all our institutions, writers, artists and avant-garde intellectuals are at disposal of this Project, we all must learn from the rest and the most important is that there is the spirit to do it, he specified.
(PL)
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