DIVEDCO in Puerto Rico



DIVEDCO in Puerto Rico

Introduction

Film production Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) was an important forum of expression for musicians and composers Puerto Ricans. With their musical films, preserved and disseminated DIVEDCO diversity of national musical heritage, both gender and religious lines in popular music, urban and rural. At a time when Puerto Rican culture was required to be valued and esteemed, film DIVEDCO conserved the best of our music and its performers. Films of the Division of Community Education representing the golden age of cinema Puerto Rican and current efforts to create a productive film industry in Puerto Rico are considered mandatory. This documentary also important centrality talks to academic studies that revolve around issues of cooperatives, education, language, identity, anthropology, collective memory, cultural changes and projects among others and contributes to the film studies in Puerto Rico the inclusion of the voices of the natural actors who was one of the most important contributions of the DivEdCo. After its foundation in 1949 under the Law # 379, Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) was one of the cultural and community projects more innovative and dynamic Caribbean and Latin America. During the years following its founding were filmed over 112 feature and short films in rural communities in Puerto Rico and most of the participants of these films were natural actors of the community. Many of these films received awards and international recognition.

Discussion

A colorful journey through the history of Puerto Rican Christmas is what presents the viewer with the temporary exhibition Messengers of peace and happiness: Posters and Xmas Cards, which features the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Pedras Fairground. René Marqués is a writer born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and grown up in a family of farmers. He graduated in 1942 in agricultural engineering. At that time, he leans politically by the idea of defending the independence of Puerto Rico. But his main interest lied in the letters, which would push him to study literature at the Central University of Madrid. So, after graduation, he returned to Puerto Rico and managed the Pro Art Society. In the 50s, René Marqués wrote his best work for the theater, La Carreta, which is a story about what is experienced during the time in Puerto Rico and which still exists. In 1953, the play made its debut in San Juan, thereby helping to ensure the reputation of the writer as a major literary figure in Puerto Rico.René Marqués was a member of the Puerto Rico was known as La generación del 50, a group of intellectuals which he became the leader. In the 1950s and 1960s, along with other members of this group, René Marqués worked in the Division of Community Education of Puerto Rico (DIVEDCO).

The trace of Lorenzo Homar, Rafael Tufiño, Rafael Delgado, Manuel Hernández Acevedo and Jose Contreras Meléndez, are part of the path history of the origins of the poster and postcards Christmas in Puerto Rico that were ...