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Celebrating the XXXIII Viequense Cultural Festival

Fort Count Mirasol Museum

Institute of Puerto Rican Cullture

PO Box 71 Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765

t. 787 741-1717 f. 787 741-4688
rrabin@icp.gobierno.pr

5 April, 2010

Celebrating the XXXIII Viequense Cultural Festival

Vieques celebrates its 33rd annual Cultural Festival this year between 16
and 18 April. Three nights of artistic-cultural presentations will take
place at the Fort Count Mirasol Museum, project of the Museums and Parks
Program of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. The Festival is the
oldest and most diverse manifestation of Viequense-Puerto Rican culture to
happen on the island-municipality.

Folkloric Ballet, typical Puerto Rican music, Bomba and Plena, an artisans
fair – with dozens of craftspeople from the main island and Vieques – and a
Vieques book fair, are among the weekend’s activities that begin each night
around 7:00. The Municipal Band, the Band’s Orchesrta Workshop, music
groups Mariyandá and Albacaná, the Pleneritos del Son (Luquillo), Sol del
Caribe Folkloric Ballet (Guayama), music and puppet theatre by the Caguas
Municipal Cultural Office, the Pleneros de Vieques, Victoria Sanabria and
her Orchestra form part of the program

The festival is dedicated this year to Myrna Pagán and Charlie Connelly for
seventeen years of journalism through the Vieques Times (1987-2004). Also,
we will hold a posthumous tribute to two Viequense cultural workers with
close ties to the Cultural Festival: Dr. Rafael Rivera Castaño y Mario
Solis.

Two special exhibitions will be at the Museum during the Festival and
continue to the end of May: a presentation of Vieques Times’ front pages
and an impressive exposition of Puerto Rican popular arte that includes
masks, wood carvings, ceramic and musical instruments.

This very special event is sponsored by the Institute of Puerto Rican
Culture, Vieques Municipal Government, Vieques Artisans Guild, the
Department of Education and a large group of Viequense businesses.

For more information please call 787 741-1717

Contact: Robert Rabin 787 375-0525

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Programa Tentativo*

Tentative Program

Viernes 16 de abril

Actos de Apertura Oficial/Openning Ceremonies

Dedicatoria: Charlie Connelly y Myrna Pagán por 17 años de periodismo
viequense a través del Vieques Times

Dedication: C. Connelly, M. Pagan for 17 years of Vieques journalism vía
Vieques Times

Banda Municipal de Vieques/Vieques Municipal Band

Oasis de Vieques (Proyecto Educativo): Dramatización escenas de la
esclavitud africana en Vieques

Oasis Vieques Ed. Project: Dramatization scenes from African slavery in
Vieques

Los Pleneritos del Son (Luquillo) /Children Plena Group (Afro-Caribbean
rythm)

Taller Orquesta (Banda Municipal de Vieques)/Orchestra from Vieques
Municipal Band

Sábado 17 de abril

Grupo Folklórico Sol del Caribe (Guayama)/Folkloric Dance Group from
Guayama, PR

Ballet Folklorico Mariyandá/Mariyandá Folkloric Dance Group

Los Pleneros de Vieques/Pleneros of Vieques

Domingo 18 de abril

Ballet Folklórico “Las Caribeñas” (Esc. Maria M. Simons, Vieques)/Student
Folkloric Dance Group

Municipio de Caguas:Caguas Municipal Government

Teatro Titeres/Puppet Theatre

Ballet Folklórico/Folkloric Dance

Taller Típico Criollo/Typical PR Creole Music

Conjunto Albacaná/Albacaná Music Group

Victoria Sanabria y su Orquesta/Salsa and other Puerto Rican music by V.
Sanabria

Cada noche se celebrará una Feria de Artesanos y una Feria de Libros
Viequenses
Each night an artisans and Vieques book fair

Exhibiciones especiales en el museo : Vieques Times: 17 años de
periodismo viequense

Artesanía Puertorriqueña (Artes Populares ICP)

Special exhibits in the museum: Vieques Times: 17 Years
of Vieques Journalism

Puerto Rican Popular Art (Institute of PR Culture)

Habrán kioskos de bebidas y comidas típicas

Actos de recordación de dos fallecidos trabajadores de la cultura viequense:
Dr. Rafael “Toñín” Rivera Castaño y Mario Solís

Kiosks with local food and drink

Remembrance activities for two Viequense cultural workers: Dr. Rafael
Rivera Castaño and Mario Solis

*Programa sujeto a cambio más info. 787 741-1717………Subject to change More
info… 787 741-1717

Auspician: Special Thanks to: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña; Gobierno
Municipal de Vieques; Cooperativa A/C Roosevelt Roads, Vieques; East Coast
Repair and Fabrication; Sea Gate Hotel; Lcdo. Gino Negreti y Ardelle Ferrer;
Seaborne Airlines; GE Industrial PR

Para donar: cheque a Comité Timón Festival Cultural Viequense; Apartado 71
Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765

To donate: cheque to Comité Timón Festival Cultural Viequense; PO Box 71

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