Visual Arts

Once again we said goodbye to a difficult year for Las Tunas artists. Closed spaces, postponed dreams, and digital environments enthroned, sometimes as the only possible option for months.

Gaspar Esquivel

Las Tunas.- If, as José Martí said, "to move is to moralize", it is understood that Cuban art and culture have a long way to go and a world still to be secured. In that incessant "pull" to capture attention and thoughts, to build better human beings; culture, in its many forms, has the leading role on the set. Those who feel it, develop it and promote it, as well as those who enjoy it, know it.

Piece by Michel Jhonson, a visual artist of the Ballet

The career of the visual artist of ballet Michel Johnson continues to spiral, the most recent proof is his insertion as a member of the International Dance Council (CID, by its acronym in French).

Yanet Pavón Bernal, the director of "La machetera, and her team

In our territory, many talented young people invested their days, during this time of the pandemic, in leaving their mark on cultural events. One of them is Yanet Pavón Bernal, a student at the Faculty of Audiovisual Media (FAMCA, by its acronym in Spanish) of the University of the Arts (ISA, by its acronym in Spanish) and director of the film La machetera (Cane Cutter Woman), an independent project that recently participated in La Femme International Film Festival.

Cultural Plaza in the center city of Las Tunas

This morning, the activities for the Cuban Culture Day were officially inaugurated in the vicinity of the Provincial Museum, the old building that is already 100 years old.