The 7th international Timbalaye forum kicked off in Italy

HAVANA, Cuba, May 20 (ACN) The 7th International Timbalaye Forum began on Sunday in Italy and will take place until May 25, under the slogan Cuba in movement: Reflections in anthropology, literature, music and dance, based on the Routes of the enslaved people.

Under the leadership of Master Miguel Barnet Lanza, Cuban poet, narrator, essayist and ethnologist, president of the Fernando Ortiz Foundation, this edition will reach the cities of Tarquinia, Rome, Baia Domizia and Passo Oscuro.

Ulises Mora Valiña, president of the Timbalaye International Promoter of Cuban Culture project, said exclusively to the Cuban News Agency, that Barnet, who is the Pagugu stick with which Timbalaye always invokes the ancestral memory, will present on this occasion " Cimarron-biography of a slave", recently republished in Italian language.

Through anthropology, sociology, literature and dance arts, this forum will show the meaning of this literary jewel in its 86 editions and, in turn, demonstrate that Cuba will always be the heart of something universal that radiates light, unity and solidarity to all parts of the world, said the also renowned dancer, choreographer and professor of Afro-Cuban dance.

In collaboration with the Italian Association Semi di Pace, the National Association of Friendship Italy Cuba and under the auspices of the Cuban Embassy to Italy, the Forum is in line with the African Legacy Heritage Objective (OPLA by its Spanish acronym), adopted by Timbalaye in January 2019, and by which it projects all its operations until 2029, in order to vindicate and value the historical-cultural heritage of the African heritage in Cuba.

Timbalaye is a project that includes and never excludes, and through this forum invites to think and raise awareness about peace, humanism, social justice, anti-racism, unity, dignity, solidarity and all those feelings and values that contribute to raise awareness and seek new ways to fight racism and discrimination, Mora Valiña affirmed.