The young artist Anelí Pupo deserved the main prize of the twentieth Visual Arts Contest José Vázquez Pubillones with the work Flor Nacional, for her successful work in the composition and the way to highlight her creative questions from experimentation in digital photography, an award she received during the closing event on the Cuban Culture Day in Guantanamo.
Cuba legendary prima ballerina assolluta and choreographer, Alicia Alonso, passed away in Havana on Thursday. She was 98.
The single-person play Pan para la fe (Bread for faith) was presented for first time at the Theater Guiñol of Guantanamo City by the group Teatro de la Totalidad, whose leading role is interpreted by the young actor Fermín Francel, under the artistic direction of Geordanis Carcasés and the musical production of Marcos Antonio Pérez .
With the traditional Impromtus del Cuerpo Interior Space of the Danza Fragmentada Company, the twenty-sixth season of presentations began at the studio of this Guantanamo troupe, a space enlightened also by the performance of the Ballet Folklórico Babul, Danza Libre and students of the Alfredo Velázquez Carcasés Professional Dance School.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, insisted on Monday, during the first meeting after the IX Uneac Congress, the need to systematize and promote the principles of the cultural policy of the Revolution, and the role of institutions as true representatives of the creators to whom they are due.