With seventeen dance, music and visual arts activities, adapting the celebration to the new normal established by the current situation in the world and the state, the Secretary of Culture of the Executive Power of the State of Campeche (SECULT) announces the billboard of the International Festival of the Historic Center (FICH) 2020, which will take place from Thursday 10 to Tuesday 29 of December with free events in various locations in the city of San Francisco de Campeche, Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Since the beginning of the current administration, the cultural offer has accommodated high-level shows from all disciplines of art national, international and local ; being fundamental pieces in the permanent artistic programming of the Secretary of Culture.
The FICH has been one of these spaces that has been consolidated at an international level and that year after year its billboard generates great local and regional expectations.
However, in the face of circumstances that could put the health of the campechanos at risk, in this edition there will be no shows in open spaces, which has been one of the characteristics of this festival because it was born with the intention which edified the Cultural Heritage by the setting for these artistic expressions.
For the State Government, headed by Carlos Miguel Aysa González, the health of Campeche families is essential , for this reason the economic and surveillance efforts have been redoubled to guarantee health security in the face of the current Covid-19 emergency.
Given this, the FICH 2020 billboard will not have massive shows, such as the Great Christmas Concert and the New Year’s Dance.
To continue with the tradition of this festival and whose programming has been compared with the best that take place in other cities around the world, the 2020 edition will begin this Thursday 10 with the presentation of the Women’s Orchestra «Sofía Cancino» in the Central Patio from the Cultural Center «El Claustro» at 7:00 p.m. On Friday the 11th, the interpretive versatility of the chamber music quartet “Contratiempo”; It will be presented at the Francisco de Paula Toro City Theater at 8:00 p.m., with a repertoire of classical composers, as well as fantastic arrangements of popular music.
The group is made up of four musicians who live in the city of Campeche with experience in different orchestras in Mexico, Cuba and Canada.
The representatives of the bolero and the romantic song Rodrigo de la Cadena, Jorge Muñiz and Carlos Cuevas will intertwine their voices through the piano in an authentic bohemian night with the concert «Encadenados», on Thursday 17 at the Teatro de la Ciudad at 8:00 p.m. ; a show where the golden age of pianobars will evoke memorias.
For Friday 18 in the same place, the dance company «Dzul Dance» from New York, will present the show «The Tree of Life» at 20:00. On Saturday 19 there will be a concert by the mezzo-soprano Cassandra Zoé Velasco and the Campeche Symphony Orchestra (OSCAM), which will be conducted by maestro Iván López Reynoso in a concert that will review the classics of international opera at the Héctor Pérez Martínez Auditorium (Acoustic Shell) at 8:00 p.m.
The 6th. Circus Encounter of the Company of Dance and Circus Arts «Aerialfit» will be held on Sunday 20 at the City Theater at 8:00 p.m., an activity where the body movements will go beyond the ground and will be carried into the air with artists from the Dominican Republic, India, Switzerland and Mexico.
As for folk dance, on Monday the 21st the University Zentzontle Ballet will celebrate 24 years of experience, having as guests the band «La Tekiteña» and on Tuesday the 22nd the Great State Folkloric Ballet will present the show «Herencias»; both events will be full of the magic of Mexican folklore. The first show will take place at the Héctor Pérez Martínez Auditorium (Acoustic Shell) and “Herencias” at the Francisco de Paula Toro City Theater, both activities at 8:00 p.m. The unique voice of Karen Chablé & Vocal Rec Jazz Trío, who inject the genre of youth and innovation in the state, will sound on Saturday 26 at the Francisco de Paula Toro City Theater, at 7:00 p.m. On Saturday 26 and Tuesday 29, to close the festival, the group U K’ayil Kah will offer the show «I give you my word» at the Juan de la Cabada theater at 8:00 p.m., where the feelings and emotions that inhabit the depths of the human being are skilfully described in this selection of readings and songs that U K’AYIL-KAH will dedicate to his followers.
The FICH, one of the most important artistic festivals in the country, will continue to highlight the magnificence of Campeche as a historic city, full of tradition, art and culture. To be able to attend the activities, the public must respect all the measures established in the new regulations, of healthy distance and corresponding personal protection inside and outside the venues and auditoriums, which will have 50% of their capacity. The use of face masks will be required. Likewise, you can enjoy the transmissions of a large part of the billboard through the Campeche Television and Radio System (TRC) on channel 4.1 of open signal, 11 of Telecable, 4 and 152 of Izzi and from the networks of the Secretary of State Culture.
The complete billboard of the FICH 2020 will be available through www.culturacampeche.com, as well as in the social networks of the State SECULT (Campeche Culture) and in various publications for the enjoyment of this free and multidisciplinary festival that year after year is full of music and color to celebrate the Historic Center.
Translated by Patricia Rubio
