Hermosillo, Sonora; May 20, 2021. With music, workshops, exhibitions, performing arts and talks on cultural heritage, this Friday, May 21 and Saturday, May 22, the online program Kino in Memory will be held, to commemorate the 55th Anniversary of the discovery of the father’s remains Eusebio Francisco Kino.
Mario Welfo Álvarez Beltrán, general director of the Sonoran Institute of Culture (ISC), highlighted the valuable collaboration of the Magdalena de Kino city council, the Regional Museum of Sonora, the INAH Sonora Center and the Museum of Popular and Indigenous Cultures of Sonora, as well as the remuneration shares supported by the Fiscal Stimulus for the Culture and the Arts of Sonora (Eficas).
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“This is the second broadcast of the Kino project in memory, an evolution of what the Kino Festival is, which due to the health contingency since 2020 and now in 2021 we cannot develop in person as we have done in Magdalena and the rest of the municipalities in this region ”, he expressed.
Álvarez Beltrán emphasized the efforts made by the ISC and the INAH Sonora Center for the declaration of the Ruta de las Misiones del Padre Kino: “These days we are working with enthusiasm to prepare the last details regarding the next declaration of the Route of the missions of Padre Kino as a cultural heritage of our state that is in the process of being requested by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site ”.
The artistic and cultural program includes 15 activities that will be inaugurated this Friday at 10:30 am, with the participation of the head of the ISC, Mario Welfo Álvarez Beltrán and the Municipal President of Magdalena de Kino, Armida Elena Carranza Aguirre. Between 11:30 and 17:00, piano workshops for girls and boys will be held, the exhibition “Rasgando el Desierto” will be presented, with works by Gabriela Quibenz, Emma Alicia Mondaca and AnaMar from the GEA Collective and the first session of the Dialogues cycle between the desert and the mountains, living memory.
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At 6:00 p.m., a tribute to great composers will be broadcast with the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of Sonora (Ojusson), under the direction of Ilución Hernández. At 7:00 p.m., the presentation of the Aby Yala folk dance group, directed by Rossy Guillén, with students from the “Gerardo Valenzuela” House of Culture, from Magdalena de Kino, is scheduled.
To conclude the first day of the Kino en Memoria program, at 8:00 p.m., the concert “A dream, Music by Don Porfirio for voice and guitar” will be presented, with soprano Elena Rivera and guitarist Juan Pablo Maldonado, guitarist; This concert is the result of a project supported by the Fiscal Stimulus for Culture and the Arts of the State of Sonora (Eficas).
On Saturday, May 22, the agenda will begin at 10:00 am with a review of the discovery of the remains of Father Kino, the workshops will continue at 11:00 and 12:00, Lázaro Quijada will teach how to make wheat pozole, a dish that is part of Sonoran gastronomy.
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At 4:00 pm, the children’s group “Kids Music” will play, directed by Francisco Velásquez, and at 5:00 pm, the second part of the series Dialogues between the desert and the mountains, living memora will be held.
The program will conclude with two concerts: at 6:00 p.m., Guadalupe Nohemí Cruz Gallegos will sing Mexican popular songs and at 8:00 p.m., the Navajamusica Duet will play, made up of the cellist and composer Nubia Jaime and the cellist Omar Nava.
In person, you will be able to enjoy the exhibition “Histories on a canvas, Warriors in oblivion”, by Zulema Burgos at the Magdalena de Kino Municipal Palace, a project supported by EFICAS, in the 2019-2 cycle.
In parallel, the XIII Forum of the Northwest Mexico Missions is held, from May 20 to 22, with live broadcasts on the page of the Museum of Popular and Indigenous Cultures of Sonora, contents that will be permanently available on this platform.
Eusebio Francisco Kino, Austrian-Italian Jesuit missionary, explorer, cartographer, geographer and astronomer, distinguished among the indigenous people of what is now northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States for his methods of evangelization, founder of 20 missions or visits and Known for his ability to build relationships between indigenous people and the religious institutions he represented.
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