All set! Get to know the opening program to celebrate National Salsa Day

Published at: 03/10/2024 12:46 PM

This Wednesday, October 02, the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, presented the opening program to celebrate this Saturday National Salsa Day, a holiday decreed by President Nicolás Maduro Moros.

During the press conference held at the Teatro Corazón Salsero, he indicated that the opening ceremony will take place in the spaces of the Aquiles Nazoa Cultural House.

At the same time, he added that the day will start “with a communal route and in an exceptional place, because the greatest success we have had in recent times has been the Plaza de la Juventud. (...) A diverse cultural epicenter has been created that allows the encounter of different artistic disciplines and knowledge, as well as of different generations”.

He also took the opportunity to point out that no one can feel that he is the owner of cultural diversity in Venezuela.

“Who can take the dance away from salsa, salseros and salseras? We are carrying out the Great Mission Viva Venezuela, My Beloved Homeland, launched by President Nicolás Maduro Moros to enhance our dances, rhythms, music and singing with traditional Venezuelan roots (...). How nice that we can announce a program with an emphasis on the Community Salsa Route that has 26 community concerts planned here in the city of Caracas, together with training activities at the headquarters of Corazón Salsero,” he said.

For this reason, he issued instructions to the Cultural Cabinets of the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture to include in the “programs of all the states of the country the celebration of October 5th as National Salsa Day”.

For her part, the Deputy Minister of Culture, Karen Millán, who also accompanied the activity, explained that “there is an intense program in each of the parishes of Caracas and now there are the states of the country, with a national program that incorporates more than 800 artists, more than 46 salsa groups and that rotates through the communities, incorporating producers and cultural promoters who join the organization and the communal meeting”.

In this way, Millán reported that National Salsa Day will be celebrated from October 05 to 13.

Below we share the schedule:

Mazo News Team