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The hall of the Cultural Center will host Luzzy Ramón Alonso this afternoon, starting at 20.00 hours, the commemoration of 2008 as the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, organized by the city of Cartagena, one of the first, along to Barcelona, to sign up for this project which now involves 40 municipalities.
During the event, which will chair the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, will make a statement on intercultural coexistence in the city of Cartagena, Aouatif by Luis Antonio Morocho Oubai and representatives of immigrant associations.
Among other institutional interventions, including with technical advisor for International Cultural Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture, Josefina Lopez Conejo.
In addition, a screening of the DVD 'Cartagena, united in diversity', and will intervene intercultural ambassador of the European Union and musician Jordi Savall, who is responsible for the closure of the commemoration with a concert of early music 'East and West' .
The artist has been received this morning by the mayor at the Palace Hall.
Savall has defended the role of music as an integrator of different cultures, and establishing a communication between people as equals.
One of the great difficulties of the western world is that we think our culture and our religion is true, and we have forgotten that there are many cultures that do not know and therefore we can not appreciate.
You have to remove their prejudices and be open minded to approach other cultures with curiosity, said.
In this sense, music acts as common and unifying language, as Savall.
The music was common in the Christian, Jewish, Arabic ...
and if we take these old songs of the IX-XIV centuries, we are able to transform.
The artist has indicated that the music is also the first language of man, before any language.
Jordi Savall play this afternoon musical pieces of the Christian tradition, Jewish and Arabic, which are a example of cultural dialogue in a time of hard living.
LOCAL ACTIONS
With regard to socio-cultural integration, the City of Cartagena has more than 15 years developing programs and activities aimed at improving intercultural harmony through its various councils: Education, Social Care, Youth, Culture, Women and Sports, among others.
In this area, has pioneered many of these actions, since most of them have been an example to other municipalities of the Region and in Spain.
The commemoration of 2008 as European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, come then to promote existing programs and to innovate with new proposals, involving all kinds of organizations and institutions of the municipality in the celebration of important anniversaries.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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