The Cuban Association of Writers and Artists in Guantanamo (UNEAC) announced the nominees for the Guamo prize, an award given by the institution on March 31 at the Antonia Luisa Cabal Concert Hall, in recognition of the results of their creative work of the year 2017.
A feature of the prize, instituted 29 years ago in the eastern province, is that it stimulates talent, even if the nominated do not officially belong to the artistic avant-garde and includes the best whatever their specialty.
This time the candidates are Yaneisi Chibás, choreographer and teacher of the Territorial Dance School; the dancers of the Médula Dance Company Julio César Rodríguez Azahares and Aracelis Dianet Lobaina; Yecenia Ramírez Sosa, promoter of the Grafomanía Project.
In addition to other nominees, Tomás Pantoja, declaimer; the journalists Jessica Elías and Eniel Navarro, of the CMKS radio station and the Primada Visión TV local channel, respectively; the writer José Raúl Fraguela; Xiomara Solís, Director of the Colmenita Children Company in Guantánamo and Eduardo Enrique Núñez, cultural activist of the municipality of Imías.
It was also known that the jury of the Guamo Prize of the UNEAC in Guantanamo is composed by pianist Teresa Manzanares, the radio director Elba Mestre González and the plastic artist George Pérez.
The first to receive the aforementioned prize were the sculptor Ángel Iñigo Blanco, creator of the Stone Zoo; the writer Ana Luz García Calzada and the pedagogue Antonia Luisa Cabal, while those of honorific character corresponded to Rebeca Ulloa, Rafael Inciarte and Juan Torrel Lluch.
Translation: Ilia Charon