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THE INTERNATIONAL HISPANIC THEATRE FESTIVAL OF MIAMI
TO RECEIVE
THE CADIZ IBERO-AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL’S
ATAHUALPA DEL CIOPPO AWARD
The International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami, produced
and presented by Teatro Avante, has been chosen to receive the Cadiz Ibero-American
Theatre Festival’s Atahualpa del Cioppo Award in the course of the 24th
annual season of the Andalusian festival, known in Spanish as the Festival
Ibero-Americano de Cádiz or FIT. The mayor of Cadiz and chair of the
Cadiz FIT’s Board of Trastees, Teófila Martínez, so announced
at the board meeting of Monday, May 18. The award will be presented on Friday,
October 30, at 1 p.m. in the council chamber of Cadiz City Hall.
“Congratulations,” said FIT Director Pepe Bable. “The award
was bestowed by a unanimous vote. We congratulate the International Hispanic
Theatre Festival of Miami and its director, Mario Ernesto Sánchez, who
has been invited to the FIT, as he is every year, only this time he will also
receive the award.”
“This generous distinction belongs to all of us at the Festival,” said
Mario Ernesto. “I will accept it on behalf of our sponsors, staff, casts,
academics and Miami audience. We are honored and moved to receive this recognition
of our work of almost 25 years,” said Mario Ernesto when he learned of
the Board of Trustees’ decision. “It has not been easy to persevere
in the mission of preserving our Hispanic cultural heritage through the theatre,
via Teatro Avante and the IHTF, but we will continue to strive so that Ibero-American
theatre finally achieves the place it deserves in the United States. We value
and are tremendously grateful for this honor because it is about the theatre,
our most valued treasure. In addition to entertaining, good theatre educates,
moves, uncovers, humanizes, unites, confronts, and nourishes the soul. We could
never have chosen any other profession. I have witnessed almost every other
FIT awards ceremony, but I confess I never imagined that some day I would be
sitting next to the mayor of Cadiz, Teófila Martínez. Our thanks
to all the members of the Festival’s Board of Trustees and Advisory Council.”
Prior to this honor, the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami
had received the Granada Provincial Council’s Federico García
Lorca Award, CELCIT-Spain’s Ollantay and the La Paz International
Theatre Festival’s Kusillo for its contribution to the development
of Hispanic theatre in America.
ABOUT THE AWARD
In 2000, at the initiative of the Board of Trustees of the Cadiz Ibero-American
Theatre Festival, the FIT de Cádiz-Atahualpa del Cioppo Award was
established as a tribute to the artist, considered the father of modern Ibero-American
theatre, to honor those persons or institutions that have distinguished themselves
by their extraordinary records and championing of the values of Ibero-American
theatre.
AWARDEES
2000 – Sociedad General de Autores y Editores de España
2001 – Festival Internacional de Teatro de Manizales
2002 - Fundación Rafael Alberti
2003 – La Cuadra de Sevilla
2004 – Enrique Buenaventura
2005 – Héctor Alterio
2006 – Nidia Telles
2007 – Fanny Mickey
2008 – La Zaranda, Teatro Inestable de Andalucía la
Baja
CADIZ IBERO-AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL’S TRIBUTES
2000 - Nati Mistral
2001 - Antonio Gala
2002 - Antonio Gades
2003 - Fernando Arrabal
2004 - Albert Boadella
2005 - Norma Aleandro
2006 - María Jesús Valdés
2007 - Ramiro Osorio Fonseca
2008 - José Monleón Bennacer
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CADIZ IBERO-AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL (FIT)
Teófila Martínez Sáiz, Chairman
of the Board of Trastees and Mayor of Cadiz
Féliz Palomero, Director General of the National
Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM) of the Ministry of Cultura
of Spain, represented by Carlos Fernández
Ana Navarro Navarro, Director General of Cultural Industries
and Performing Arts of the Regional Government of Andalusia
Yolanda Peinado, Provincial Director of the Culture Department
of the Regional Government of Andalusia
Cristina del Moral Ituarte, Area Chief of Cultural Planning
of the Department of Cultural Cooperation and Promotion Abroad of the Spanish
Agency for International Cooperation for Development
Antonio Rodríguez Cabañas, Director of the
Provincial Culture Foundation of the Cadiz Provincial Council
Marieta Cantos, Vice President for Univesity Extensión
of the University of Cadiz
Antonio Castillo, Culture Councilor and Chairman of the
FIT’s Advisory Council
Pepe Bable, FIT Director
CONSEJO ASESOR
Ramiro Osorio, Director of ARTeria of the Society of Authors
and Publishers of Spain (SGAE)
Juan Meliá, Director of Tetares of the National Fine
Arts Institute of Mexico (INBA)
Pilar Ramos, President of the Network of Cultural Promoters
of Latin America and the Caribbean
Salvador Távora, Director of La Cuadra de Sevilla
Francisco Ortuño, Director of the Andalusian Theatre
Center