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Go to sectionEvery year, a section of streets in the Entrerrian capital is dyed with candombe, colors and smiles . Paintings on the faces, children running around and people dancing everywhere. Flags that unfold on top, messages of struggle and the scent of diversity that can be felt in the air. The appointment is always the weekend prior to October 12 and becomes an unparalleled plan. The counterbalance attempts to make visible some aspects of the African and indigenous cultures that existed in the area before European colonization . It is a manifestation where art and resistance are combined to become one.
Its organizers define it as an attempt to foster a space for collective reflection . It also maintains a deep vocation to revitalize our identity without omissions or distortions . This means that it fights neoliberal globalization, selfishness and marginalization, but through love and rhythm . It does so in the conviction of respect for the different ethnic groups and in the pursuit of national multiculturalism , which provides equal opportunities. Therefore, we can hear the drums invade the Paranaenses corners and watch them advance in powerful columns. And among the crowd we see coming out to the certainty that the construction is strengthened more and more.
The counterbalance was born at the end of 2002 , when the country was going through a very special moment. In a context of crisis and social boiling, the idea of a legitimate expression of new inclusive thinking began to emerge. It was also intended to be an annual sample of the first drum string in the city, “Tambor Nation” . Which depended on the Afro-Uruguayan Candombe School. In this way, it was decided to make a call that would go through the old Barrio del Tambor . The latter was a settlement of Afro-descendents from the middle of the 19th century near the Church of San Miguel de Paraná.
The event was growing in call and other artistic and cultural movements, trade unions and people who enriched it joined the organization. As for the date, the previously called “Day of Race” was the ideal pretext for counterfeiting . Thus, it was intended to combat the concept that America had benefited after the discovery of Christopher Columbus. In this sense, the celebration aims to remind us that Argentina was founded on the sacrifice and genocide of indigenous peoples. But also about Africans brought as slaves to the continent.
The scenarios changed over time. At first, the counterfeiting took place in the Baucis Passage , a special place in the capital with cobblestones and colonial cobblestones. In 2007 he moved only to the corner of San Martín and Buenos Aires streets . It happens that the Passage had drawbacks related to capacity and comfort for the number of people, which was increasing. For these reasons, he left and returned from Baucis several times in his later additions.However, in 2019 he moved to the local New Port to honor the cultural diversity along the Paraná River .
Counterfesting is organized in a self-managed and collective manner. So all decisions are taken together and with the greatest possible participation. During all his years of history on the street he never lost the central axis that mobilizes his struggle . That is, the cultural claim of the rights of people of African descent and indigenous peoples. Through music and candombe, it became a tool that connects us with our ancestral roots. A unique moment of the year, when drums start to sound and joy and dance take over the city .
Publication Date: 12/10/2020
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