The Literature and Visual Arts Regino E. Boti Event, has in June several motivations: the 40 years of the contest´s constitution, the 140 anniversary birthday of the most illustrious Guantanamo intellectual and the opening of a first poetry event for amateurs.
At its usual venue in Guantanamo, from June 5 to the 8th, this issue will be held, in which narrators, versifiers, visual artists, curators and critics from several Cuba´s regions converge annually, promoted by the recognition of the most important event in this city.
For the contest and the longed prizes this time they came to Guantanamo by postal mail, with pseudonym and from the pen of writers from different provinces, 26 unpublished works of the genres of poetry and narrative, while in the visual arts section about twenty pieces of painting, printmaking, photography and video art will confront at Exhibition Hall.
There are also dozens of works submitted to the collateral contest in the category of literary criticism, which goes up to its second chapter promoted by the members of the Cuban Association of Writers and Artists, and the Amateur Kindergarten Poetry Contest.
Leading the jury of literature, which will deliberate from next Tuesday, notable Cuban intellectuals like Jesus David Curbelo and Virgilio López Lemus, based in Havana; María Liliana Celorrio, from Las Tunas, and José Luis Serrano, are invited.
In the case of the visual arts, the jury will also be made up of experts from other territories, including the Pavel Alejandro Barrios from Camagüey, curator and critic of the art; and the Doctor of Art Sciences María Teresa Fleitas, professor at the Universidad de Oriente.
The awards giving and closing gala will be next Friday at La Guantanamera Cultural Center. For the visual arts category a unique prize and a Creation Grant will be given, and for literature there will be a laurel for each genre, a special award for a writer under 35 years of age, and the confirmation to the winners of next publication by the Editorial El Mar y la Montaña.
The event´s program will include academic exchanges, poetry recitals, presentations and book sales in streets, schools and communities, interviews with invited authors, and six personal and collective exhibitions, including the Contest Hall that will open on Tuesday in the Salcines Palace Gallery.
The "Regino E. Boti Contest was created in 1978, on the centenary of the birth of this remarkable Guantanamo intellectual, a renovator of the Cuban lyric of the early twentieth century who, as in literature, bequeathed an important pictorial work.
Contestants from all over the Island recognize this meeting as one of the most prestigious for their endorsements as creators.
Translation: Ilia Charon