National Hall of Landscape, Illustrated Décima and Popular Crafts

The National Hall of Landscape, Illustrated Décima and Popular Crafts, inaugurated within the framework of the Cucalambeana Fiesta, exhibits -in the Provincial Council of Plastic Arts- a multiplicity of works of various styles, themes, and techniques, consolidating itself as a vital space within the revelry. Likewise, landscape exhibitions brighten up other institutions in the city of Las Tunas.

Presentation of book about heroin Haydée Santamaría

Despite the drizzle and the omens of bad weather, the presentation of the book Haydée Santamaría. We Must Defend Life, already qualifies as one of the most emotional spaces of the 58th edition of the Cucalambeana Fiesta, the party of the Cuban peasantry, regarding the centenary of the heroine of Moncada Feat and her mark on Las Tunas, where she is still remembered.

Researcher Rafael Lara González during Colloquium on peasant roots

Reporters with 26 Newspaper move throughout the festival of the Cuban peasantry, and to the Caracol hall of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), we arrived to learn a little more about the peasant roots of the Island and the traditions that accompany us.

The 2023 Cucalambeana Fiesta is underway

The Cucalambeana Fiesta is underway again and Juan Cristóbal seems to multiply in the new batch of poets. There is also no shortage of "Rufinas" and that smell of colander, corn, yarey, and other very Creole aromas, which slip through the bamboo of El Cornito to embrace cultivators of the most authentic Cuban tradition.

Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo, to whom the Cucalambeana Fiesta honors

The Cucalambeana Fiesta, the supreme party of the Cuban peasantry, will take place in Las Tunas from June 28 to July 2, dedicated to the 194th birthday of Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo (El Cucalambé), the greatest bucolic poet of the 19th century in the Island; the intellectual Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado; the poet and plastic artist Renael González Batista, and the 45th anniversary of the System of Culture Houses (CPCC).