Musician and composer Dionísio Rocha is the winner of the 2024 edition of the National Culture and Arts Award, in the music category.
The announcement was made this Wednesday in Luanda by the Jury Committee, which awarded the prize in the Visual and Plastic Arts category to artist Joaquim Pedro Teixeira, cinema and audiovisual to the production company Diamond Films,
dance to dancer, choreographer and dance teacher Pedro Vieira Dias, while Literature was awarded to Carlos Ferreira.
The Obama arts collective won an award in the theater, Human and Social Sciences category, “The Work” The Bantus in Manfrano’s view, memories of Mauricio Francisco Caetano.
Posthumously, the jury awarded the prize in the Human and Social Sciences “The Work”, The Bantus in the vision of Manfrano and Francisco Caetano Manfrano,
In a statement to the press at the time of the announcement, the president of the jury, Maria José Ramos, said the seven award-winning categories were established in Decree 133/17, which approves the cur
rent regulations of the national culture and arts award.
“It was a very hard job, where the jury held seven plenary and ordinary meetings in addition to the regular ones, as well as maintaining regular communication throughout, followed by collection and analysis work,” he said.
Source: Angola Press News Agency
