The National Organizing Committee (NOC) of the 20e edition of the National Culture Week (SNC) faced the press on April 26, 2023 in Bobo-Dioulasso. Objective, to take stock of the preparations for the biennial of Burkinabe culture.
« To date, we can safely say that everything is ready “. This is what Fidèle Tamini, President of the NOC of the SNC, told the press 72 hours before the opening of the 20e edition of the biennial of culture. He says that the various commissions have really got to work since their installation.
The SNC 2023 is an edition with great challenges and the expectations are of various orders so that the difficulties cannot be missed, maintains Fidèle Tamini. ” But we are always hard at work to minimize them in order to offer festival-goers a beautiful celebration of Burkinabe culture. “, he reassures. It will be remembered that at the edition of the SNC held in 2016, some stands were ravaged by flames. This time, to prevent this kind of situation a little, the NOC President said that the stands, especially in the gastronomic area, were entirely erected with sheet metal instead of straws.
Each stand purchaser is also required to take out insurance and agents from the national fire brigade will also be present in addition to the other security measures provided. SNC 2023 is also about innovations such as the return of the Burkinabè diaspora from Côte d’Ivoire to competition in the performing arts and the improvement of artists’ accommodation conditions. In total, the SNC 2023 will mobilize one thousand one hundred and forty-seven artists, six hundred thousand mask companies for the parade and more than six hundred thousand festival-goers. For the off sets, twenty artists are selected for live, eighty for playback, fourteen comedians, as many slam artists and seventy-eight troupes from the GPNAL. The 20e edition of the SNC, it’s from April 29th to May 6th.
Abdoul-Karim Etienne SANON
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