The inaugural act included the performance of the children’s choir directed by the teacher Digna Guerra and the performance of a clown, while the venue gradually filled with the public as the morning progressed.
With the name of “El trompo”, the event will take place from April 17 to 23 (closing day with Liuba María Hevia) and is focused on promoting the works that the island’s artisans make for children, such as toys, textiles and footwear.
The presentation coincides with the school break week and the population segment to which it is addressed will have the opportunity during the days to interact with traditional games, and creation workshops and concerts. In addition to the popular clowns, the fair will feature circus acts and a demonstration of Chinese martial arts.
With the collaboration of other institutions from the culture and sports sector, the Cultural Station of Linea and 18, in El Vedado, Havana, will receive around thirty national exhibitors and the same number of foreign artisans.
The cultural program will be extensive, with varied offers which will bring the little ones and the childhood memories of some adults closer to making toys, for example, how to make a kite, so appreciated by the whole family.
“Revoloteart”, from the central Cuban province of Villa Clara, is the national project par excellence, which specializes in children’s products, including footwear, with the idea of rescuing the island’s idiosyncratic traditions.
According to the general director of this Cuban artisan space, Arturo Valdés, the great commercial festival, but above all, didactic, will have 25 stands for creators and four institutional ones, as well as a representation of forms of non-state management.
For all those involved in this project, it is a gift, -Valdés specified-, since the Fund has a system of fairs that supports all the interests of the population, he added.
Today it is already a fact that as of this year our purpose will be registered annually with repercussions in other Cuban provinces, the manager clarified.
The First Children’s Fair of Havana will have a significant level of commercialization, but this will be the dressing for the cultural, sports and recreational festival, as the essence and protagonist of a concept thought with love, Valdés stressed.
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