The Congo Pollera Festival will be in April

The Congo Pollera Festival is just around the corner. This cultural manifestation will take place next year in April.

The sixth edition of this festival It is one of the largest vernacular expressions that highlight Panama’s Afro-colonial culture and was organized by the Board of Directors of the Congo Pollera Festival, Masks and Dances of Devils.

Festival of Congo skirt is scheduled to take place next Saturday, April 13, in Portobelo (Colón).

It is a biennial cultural and tourist event that aims to empower conservation, development and spreading the rich tradition of the region.

It particularly focuses on the invaluable contribution that is black and chestnut woman ulhistory of these populations and in the survival and preservation of all the manifestations that make up the so-called Congolese culture, since the time of slavery.

6 Congo Pollera Festival will offer a day of activities that will include food and beverage sales.

There will be a water parade of the ships of each of them participating populationparade of Congolese skirts through the streets of the city.

In addition, a large meeting of Congolese groups with delegations guests on the main stage and closing with a drumming concert in the central square.