After a period away from the classrooms, the Artistic Education students in Las Tunas resume their teaching activities today, September 1st, with rigorous protection measures against the COVID-19.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- Although the quarantine forced to take a necessary time in pursuit of prevention, students and teachers looked for a way to keep the active improvement through tests and other tasks, some of which were made visible through the Facebook page of the El Cucalambé professional art school (EPA).
Now, for the resumption of studies, compliance with sanitary measures such as the use of the facemask, the washing of the hands, the cleaning of the instruments, the disinfection of the surfaces, the hygiene of the premises, the physical distancing and others, will be required, aimed at protecting the health of teachers and students.
Thus, the closure of the admission process, the systematization of the contents and the corresponding evaluations will be accompanied by the defense of human well-being, in the midst of the difficult epidemiological situation.
Speaking to the TunasVisión oca channel, Nuris Cantallop, the EPA director, explained that, in just a few days, the first workshops will be held for the children who were selected to start their studies at the institution. Other actions are the level pass exams of Music and Modern and Folk Dance.
Besides, the school receives students from the University of the Arts (ISA), who do not return to Havana now, as well as those who are at the National School of Art (ENA) and in other territories. In that sense, the board said that some will receive classes and others will strengthen the center's cloister.
The EPA, with three decades of foundation and the National Vanguard Condition for 20 consecutive years, contributes to the formation of various specialties at the Elementary and Middle levels, a pool of talents that will dominate the piano, violin, viola, and cello, the trumpet, the guitar, the trombone, the tres, various types of dances.
As a novelty, the specialty of Oboe (a musical instrument of the woodwind family) is currently in the approval process, which will come to strengthen the Symphony Orchestra of the province, made official a few months ago.
This campus trains children and young people (not only from Las Tunas) who will certainly reach the level of Cubaclamé (danzón orchestra) or the Chamber Orchestra, made up of graduates of such an emblematic institution.