The National Organizing Committee (CNO) of the 21st edition of the National Culture Week (SNC) organized a press conference, Wednesday March 6, 2024 in Bobo-Dioulasso, to unveil to media people the actions undertaken and the innovations brought to this cultural biennial.The 21st edition of National Culture Week (SNC) will take place from April 27 to May 4, 2024 in Bobo-Dioulasso, under the theme: 'Culture, historical memory and patriotic surge for a new Burkina'.The organizers of the event are pulling out all the stops for the success of this cultural biennial which is being held in a difficult security, socio-economic and humanitarian context.After its installation on Tuesday March 5, 2024 in Bobo-Dioulasso, the National Organizing Committee (CNO) held a press conference the next day to unveil the actions undertaken so far and the arrangements made for the success of the event. .According to its president, Betamou Fidèle Aymar Tamini, the NOC, immediately installed, undertook a series of contacts, an d also developed a communication plan and an artistic platform based on the mobilization of 1,614 artists against 1,385 in the 20th edition.Other initiatives such as the mobilization of competing artists, the rereading of internal regulations, the identification of artist accommodation sites and sites for holding major activities have already been implemented.Innovations, according to President Fidèle Tamini, have been introduced at the level of certain commissions and official juries.'It must be remembered that the final objective of the NOC is to make this National Culture Week as successful as possible, despite the difficult security context. Its successful performance will once again be proof of the resilience of the Burkinabe people in the face of adversity,' Mr. Tamini suggested.The theme of this 21st edition of the SNC, according to the host of the press conference, highlights the socio-cultural, economic and political realities of the moment.'It encompasses both the renaissance, by summoning historical memory and emergence through convergences and endogenous development initiatives and immerses us in the past to consecrate the strong ties that unite communities, while exalting the cardinal values ??that found the Nation-State,' explained Fidèle Tamini.The 2024 edition therefore aims, among other things, to promote national unity through the richness and diversity of cultural expressions, to further express social cohesion and show the union and indivisibility of the Burkinabè people, to promote reference cultural values. in Burkina Faso for lasting peace.SNC, Bobo 2024 will see the participation of more than 700,000 festival-goers and more than 3,000 artists in competition and entertainment.The guest country of honor is the Republic of Niger.The ministries in charge of culture from Mali, Guinea, Brazil, Russia and North Korea are also invited to this 21st edition of the SNC which coincides with its 40th anniversary.The cultural biennial was established in the aftermath of the August Rev olution of 1984 and its first edition was held from December 20 to 30, 1983, in Ouagadougou.At this press conference of the organizing committee, the visual of the 21st edition of the SNC was revealed to the media.Source: Burkina Information Agency
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