Dili – (08th of December 20s23), Centro Nacional Chega!I.P worked with Venu Association and organized a 4-day Popular Resistance Culture Festival, “War, Memory, Trauma to Hope” from 7th-10th December 2023, held in Dili.
The Vice Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Aderito Hugo da Costa, appreciated the Popular Resistance Culture Festival activity as creating the industry of creativities to develop artistic heritage in Timor-Leste.
The Vice Minister argued that this festival is a cultural approximation through the collective memory with the various means of artistic creativities displayed becoming the reflective and didactic spaces for peacebuilding and reconciliation.
The three stages of Memory, Scar, and Hope Stages within activity create various creativities demonstrated through painting, projection, sculpture, theater, poems, monologues, and experimental or combination of music to create the performing arts.
Through these activities, the Vice Minister encouraged Centro Nacional Chega!I.P and its partners to keep realizing this festival as a part of Timorese artistic patrimony and to promote human rights defense.
The importance of the Timorese artistic patrimony and promotion as our country defends human rights. These creativities emerged new chance, “creative industries”, said the Vice Minister in his remark during the release of “The Resistance and Popular Songbook in the Period of 1980-1999 Occupation”, held in Jardím 5 de Maio, Colmera Dili.
The Vice Minister stated the book entitled “The Resistance and Popular Song in the Period of 1980-1999 Occupation” was released as part of a contribution to the development. During the liberation process, the contribution from all people needed to take Timor to Victorious. The resistance music sung during the war must turn to independence.
“The expression of the songwriter during the resistance period that Timor-Leste had to turn into independence, the critical song could affect social controls such as constructive, creative, and responsibility controls”, he affirmed.
With this release, the book is a gun to conquer our dream for a better life, as it opens the door to new horizons to let people around the world acknowledge the new realities. This book offers the possibility of raising critical thinkers responsible for the destiny of this country.
“After the referendum of 1999, we restored our independence – the social control to the music character lost, and just appearance the romantic songs sighed to loved ones is more developed. To continue, the message to the youth of the creative industry to keep developing critical thinking through music to Timor as a sovereign state”, the Vice Minister encouraged.
The Vice Minister reminded the artist to produce more constructive social criticism songs, not romantic ones. However, the critical song must produced for corrections made to the acts of state organs and agent for their poor public services.
(Media CNC)
