Africa-Press – Angola. The Bengo Provincial Culture Office will prioritize, in 2024, the promotion of arts and cultural and creative industries.
The activities planned for this year also include exchanges with other provinces of the country and the valorization and promotion of historical and cultural heritage, said the provincial director of Culture, Yuri da Silva.
Regarding the 8th of January, National Culture Day, he highlighted that Bengo has made significant progress in this sector, starting with the recreational initiatives of associations, promoters and cultural agents and individual and collective makers carried out in 2023.
According to him, cultural promoters have played a leading role in boosting and disseminating the cultural movement in the province.
He acknowledged that there were difficulties, pointing out as the main ones the lack of a multidisciplinary room for music, theater, poetry, cinema, art exhibitions, as well as the need to rehabilitate the Tentativa Museum.
To mitigate these difficulties, he said that the sector he heads has a work plan and is just waiting for funds to be made available.
National Culture Day was established in November 1986, in honor of the speech given by the first President of Angola, António Agostinho Neto, at the Union of Angolan Writers (UEA).
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