In Los Negros Children’s Festival of Plan Turquino
Los Negros is a town of Contramaestre among the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. There, the Guajirito Soy Festival showcased peasant traditions through the performance of pioneers and students from 6 schools in territories covered by the Plan Turquino.
All the people gathered in the Central Park witnessed a spectacle of pure Cuban, Guajira traditions where music, tenth, the repentismo, food, animals and farm and home instruments, gave the identifying seal to the event.
Parents were proud to see their children show their skills by saddling a horse or donkey or milking a lamb. I watched the excitement of seeing them dance the Caringa, the Papalote or exhibit rustic objects, typical dishes and productions that come out of the furrow.
It was a day for Cuban idiosyncrasy. Made reality by the Organization of Pioneers José Martí (OPJM), the sector of Education and with the sponsorship of the Center of Explorers Wiliam Soler of Contramaestre. A day that fulfilled its purpose according to Ramon Alvarez, director of the facility.
The Guajirito Soy Los Negros 2019 festival, in its 9th edition, this May 17, was an appropriate tribute by pioneers to the Day of Peasants, to those men who devote their time under the harsh sun, among plants and fertile soil that gives life with every piece of food born from it.
*Plan Turquino: Program of differentiated attention to communities in the mountainous areas of difficult access, with the purpose of achieving an integral and sustainable development with the harmony between the social development and the conservation of the nature.
Written by Adyanis Castillo Licea
