Miranda closed the 3rd Community Festival with a message of national integration

Published at: 01/12/2025 08:17 AM

The César Rengifo Municipal Theater, in Petare, was the scene of the closing of the III Miranda Community Performing Arts Festival, a cultural festival that has multiplied in the communes of the 21 municipalities of the state, showing the cultural strength of the country.

The Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, proposed the creation of a National Community Festival of Performing Arts, with the participation of all the country's communal circuits. “I dream that this will be repeated in all the states of the country, that we can have at the San Carlos Barracks (Casa de la Libertad y la Cultura Ali Primera), for example, the grand final coronation, the gala with representatives or groups from all the states of the country,” he said.

He added that the festival shows that “there is space for professionals, for the established, but also for us amateurs. Live this Festival on the road to its nationalization”.

He said that this experience must become the “Mirandino method”, which can be nationalized in 2026, “towards the great Venezuelan Caribbean cultural movement, because they have challenged the Caribbean, because the Caribbean will have (...) Let us not allow anything to steal our joy (...) sovereignty, which is what is at stake right now, always rhymes with joy, we have seen several of these wonders that have touched our minds and hearts, this is indeed popular culture”.

For her part, the sole authority of Culture in Miranda, Gabriela Simoza, celebrated the affirmative and profoundly communal nature of this third edition, highlighting that more than 300 communes were vibrant with the culture and participation of 5,900 participants who for the first time demonstrate their artistic talents.

“This festival today represents a school festival, we managed to carry out more than 50 training actions in various areas,” he said, recalling that this festival was born three years ago.

He highlighted that this edition of the festival had an unprecedented component to contribute to the consolidation of the commune and self-government through self-management, which made it possible to accumulate paper as an input to generate ecosocialist resources that go directly to the communes to strengthen cultural work.

Mazo News Team