Africa-Press – Angola. The construction of a museum on the cultural history of Luanda, in which all the assets produced over more than four decades of Entrudo will be exposed, is one of the focuses of the new management of the Luanda Provincial Carnival Association (APROCAL).
In a statement to the press on Monday, on the sidelines of the meeting with journalists, in the former premises of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment, President Tany Narciso guaranteed that the project is in the pipeline and, when concluded, will allow the creation of conditions for the conservation of all material produced over the years.
At the meeting, which served to present the details and the ongoing processes of the preparation of the largest cultural event in the country for next year, the president of APROCAL stated that the construction of the museum will allow the creation of conditions for the conservation of the material produced, from the instruments used musicals, photographs and the clothes used by the different carnival groups.
Tany Narciso added that, in this way, the historical collection of Luanda, whose diversity is quite rich, from its origins, dances and folk music, could be available to the public and serve as a source of research for national and foreign students and researchers.
The creation of the Carnival School, he said, is also one of the projects to be materialized during the term of office of APROCAL’s new board. The idea, he stressed, is to seek to combine professional and pedagogical training for the reuse of staff trained in the most varied artistic disciplines.
The possibility of increasing the monetary value of the prizes awarded to the top five in each category of the Luanda Carnival was also another aspect addressed at the meeting, which may have a positive response from the Executive in the next edition of the Luanda Carnival. “We sent the proposal to the ministry and now we hope that our concerns can have a positive response, because we think that the awards no longer correspond to the reality of the present day”.
Due to its spontaneous nature, he said, Luanda’s Carnival should be a better used product, with the creation of a wide and dynamic circuit with the communities.
The importance of the return of carnival balls in the periphery and neighborhoods of the capital was also one of the suggestions made by Tony Narciso, to allow the creation of another dynamic of the Entrudo.
The Luanda Provincial Carnival Association (APROCAL) was created in 1999, with the aim of helping to hold the “people’s party” in the capital, as well as serving as a link between the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment and carnival groups.
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