5 January 2009
Luanda — Ndalatando City, capital of the northern Kwanza Norte Province, will host this week the central activities of the National Culture Day, with shows, seminars and lectures.
The main event to be held on 8 January, under the guidance of the Angolan Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, but the celebrations start this Monday with the opening of the balance workshop on the Kimbundu vernacular language, then in the following days there will be workshop on "Culture Economy", cinema sessions and dance shows.
On 7 January, the programme reserves the opening of an exhibition dubbed "A tour around Dondo locality through its images", seminars on "Archives management", "Cultural Dynamics" and "Management of built and classified patrimony ".
The meeting on "Symbols and hierarchy in the traditional authority structure", the opening of arts and culture fair, release of literary works and cinema sessions are also included in the agenda for 7 January.
On 8 January, besides the main activity, it will also be inaugurated the exhibition "Travel to Kwanza Norte through its documentation: XVI-XX centuries", the offer of stereo systems to local musicians and the display of the film "The rhythm of Ngola Ritmos band".
On the fringes of the activities under the 8 January holiday, minister Rosa Cruz e Silva, during her stay in Ndalatando City, will hold meetings with the local governor, Henrique Júnior, and with the provincial cultural agents.
The 8 January holiday was instituted as National Culture Day in reference to the intervention of the first and late president of Angola António Agostinho Neto, when he swore in the first management board members of the Angolan Writers Union (UEA) in 1979.
On the occasion, Agostinho Neto opened for the Angolan people the debate on the essential problems of the national culture and about the ways for its retrieval and dignity, in conditions of independence and sovereignty.
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