| Angolan female painter awarded
an honorary diploma at a collective international exhibition
held in Russia
Between March 3 and 13, Moscow hosted the
Collective International Exhibition SPRING IS HOPE arranged
by the Moscow Women's Association «IRIDA». During the closing
ceremony of this international arts' forum attended by 147 female
'ministers of fine arts' from many countries, the Angolan painter
Fineza Teta's works were awarded an HONORARY DIPLOMA IN THE
FIELD OF PAINTING.
The exhibition's official closing ceremony attended by the Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Republic of Angola in the
Russian Federation General Roberto Leal Ramos Monteiro “Ngongo”,
marked the completion of the activities programme within the
framework of the Feminine Culture Week of March 2005 organized
by the Angolan Diplomatic Mission in Russia on the occasion
of celebrations devoted to March 2 as the Angolan Woman's Day
and March 8 as the International Women's Day.
Besides the exhibition of works of fine arts, the Feminine Culture
Week included the academic conference «Role played by Angolan
women in the 30 years of the country's independence» conducted
at the Foreign Literature Library in Moscow.
In the course of that activity, the audience listened to reports
by Angolan female intellectuals - writer Cho do Guri, painter
Fineza Teta, film director Maria Joao Ganga (her report was
delivered by actress Pulqueria Van-Dunem Bastos), the Angolan
ambassador's wife Palmira Monteiro, physician Ludovina Zelia,
lawyer Justina de Almeida Braganca (her report was delivered
by economist Ariete Ginga). Speaking on the part of Russia were
experts Olga Sukhova, Svetlana Stulova, Olga Myaeots and Olga
Shub.
The academic conference was concluded with a presentation of
the writer Cho do Guri's book «Industrial District, My Story».
The Feminine Culture Week of March 2005 in Russia comprised
also two demonstrations of the Angolan film director Maria Joao
Ganga's movie «Empty Town», with its subsequent discussion.
The discussion was successfully presided over by the Angolan
actress Pulquéria Van-Dúnem Bastos.
Press-center of Angola Embassy in Russia, 25.09.2004
Embassy of Republic of Angola, 2005
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