Between coplas and corridos, and with the presentation of the book El Corrío llanero, by the Venezuelan composer and musician Cristóbal Jiménez, this Sunday ended the International Book Fair of Venezuela (Filven) Miranda chapter.
Hundreds of people came to the spaces of the Historic Center of Petare from April 7 to this Sunday, where they could enjoy the sale of books, presentations, talks, as well as cultural, artistic and musical presentations of the Mirandina entity.
The artist and composer Cristóbal Jiménez highlighted the importance of sowing in the hearts of children and adolescents the love for traditions, values, culture, as well as the importance of rescuing music and knowledge about music in all spaces. Venezuelan music, especially that of the plains.
“We cannot allow the children we are forming to feed their souls with other rhythms, with other languages, we must sow love for what is ours,” he said. In this sense, with the song I want to buy a beautiful house for you, the singer’s presentation ended.
For her part, the Secretary of Culture of the state of Miranda, Gabriela Simoza, highlighted the success of Filven in the Petare parish. “The people who visited the fair were able to fall in love with Miranda, learn about her music and her traditions,” she asserted.
He indicated that the region is preparing to become the number one state in reading. “We are going to start a training process so that our cultural promoters become reading activists in the entity. We will do this through workshops on storytelling, diction, modulation, intonation, among other important techniques to promote reading », she stated.
The parranda of San Pedro, that of San Juan, the Shepherds of the baby Jesus, the burriquitas of Petare and another set of artistic expressions of the Miranda state adorned the closing of the 17th edition of Filven.
Miranda Governorate Press
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