[NYTr] Cuba Dedicates "Festival of Origins" to China
 
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:26:10 -0500 (CDT)


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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Cuba to Dedicate Festival of Origins to China

Matanzas, Cuba, Sept 5 (Prensa Latina) The fourth Festival of Origins,
scheduled for Sept. 16 in this city, will be dedicated to the Chinese
presence in Cuba since the 19th century, event coordinator Marta Silva
Escalona said on Wednesday.

Escalona told Prensa Latina that one of the two master lectures to be
given during the Festival would deal with the arrival of Chinese
immigrants in Cuba. The other lecture will be entitled "Sites of
Memory, World Heritage and Popular Religiosity".

As part of the Festival, the workshop "Identity and Tradition" will be
held, and some 40 papers will be debated at commissions on tradition
and community work, ethno-cultural history, and parties, dances,
storytelling and religiosity.

The Festival will be held at the San Severino Castle, an 18th-century
Spanish fortress where the city of Matanzas was founded in 1793.

Historians say that Asian immigrants became involved in the development
of Matanzas province in 1847, a period marked by a boom in the sugar
industry.

Statistics show that 47 percent of all Chinese immigrants in Cuba in
1870 lived in Matanzas, Cardenas and Colon.

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