The VI Meeting of the Intergovernmental Council of the Sound and Audiovisual Ibermemory Program meets this Friday in Havana.

Based on a policy of respect and cooperation, the project recognizes the diversity, particularities, needs and demands of each region and works with the rescue and preservation of its sound and audiovisual archives; as well as its promotion and use

Dedicated to the bolero, which achieved the distinction of Intangible Heritage of the Cuban Nation since August 24, the event also seeks the declaration of Intangible Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco), reports Granma.

As part of the meeting, in the Che Guevara Room of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television and with the presence of researchers from Mexico and Cuba, the meeting The heritage that unites us will take place.

The conclave also includes a master conference entitled Bolero in Mexico: the traces of Cuba, which will be given by the president of the Program and general director of the National Fonoteca of the Aztec nation, Pavel Granados Chaparro.

For her part, the musicologist and researcher Lea Cárdenas Díaz will present the document “A bolero rhythm… Past and present of a dialogue between cultures” that speaks of a valuable musical genre for the Island and the legacy of so many composers and singers.

Cárdenas Díaz will intervene on behalf of the National Council of Cuban Cultural Heritage and will show the work carried out in the preparation of the joint file for the declaration by UNESCO.

The background of this event took place at the XXIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Panama in 2013. A year later, in the Veracruz edition, it acquired the Program category.

The initiative, whose members are Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama, seeks to "implement comprehensive preservation models for audiovisual sound documents that are part of the intangible heritage of Ibero-American countries," concludes Granma.