Radio Havana Cuba | Spain’s biggest folk festival starts tomorrow

Spanish Communist Party

Madrid, September 28 (RHC) The Spanish Communist Party (PCE) Festival, the country’s largest popular festival, will start tomorrow at the Rivas Facia Madrid with a three-day proposal of multiple activities ranging from political, musical and literary. And entertainment.

The event, which will be held in its 45th edition from Friday to Sunday at the Fairgrounds and Miguel Ríos Hall in Madrid, is the third longest running EuroFestivals after L’Humanité in Paris and Vita do Avanti in Portugal. While the fourth and youngest in time is Manifesta in Belgium.

The PCE Festival, an organization that celebrated its centenary in 2021, combines social, political and solidarity events, together with popular markets, conferences on various current topics, tributes, concerts, art and cinema, as well as gastronomic and cultural activities for everyone.

Before this event, the Festa do Avante was held in Lisbon in September, followed by the ManiFiesta in Ostend, Belgium, and the Fête de L’Humanité, in the Parisian district of Essone.

Conversations, debates, screenings of books, documentaries, art, theatre, concerts and many other proposals will attract a large audience that will fill the place of Miguel Ríos de Rivas-Vasía Madrid, who will become the center of the entire Spanish left, as the organizers expect today. . .

For reading lovers, a book fair tent has been set up not far from the central stage of the international space of this major political entertainment fair.

One of the reference spaces of the PCE Festival has been the Cuban Corner for several years, with dance performances, live performances, national cuisine and cocktails, as well as meetings of support and calls for solidarity with the island.

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The InterFest team traveling from the island will bring Cuban flavor to the PCE Festival, as they did at Feta do Avante, ManiFiesta and L’Humanité.

Among other initiatives of friendship groups, this year a solidarity lottery will be organized in the Cuban corner, the proceeds of which will go to the Ernesto Guevara Association for Cooperation and Solidarity project to rehabilitate, provide resources and create special conditions. School of Education Alfredo Noah Diaz from Santiago de Cuba.

The PCE Festival, which many have known since its beginnings as the International Workers’ Festival, constitutes the apparatus of that political organization that celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2021, like the rest of its counterparts in Europe, a sample of expressions of national specificity.

In addition, they are ideal places for political debate, conferences and talks on current international issues and solidarity for the causes of a better world. (Source: Bell)



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