Guernica Hall 2023

Sharing with young people is always a pleasure, and even more so when they set goals amid the mist. The Guernica 2023 Visual Arts Hall, organized by the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS in Spanish) is not only a competitive exhibition where works by young local creators were exhibited but also a pretext to discuss the plastic arts and the need for contemporary creation as a mirror and light of social processes.

Soul Flowers Poetry Festival in Las Tunas

With the theoretical panel "Los cromatismos de la poesía" (Chromatisms in Poetry), the Flores del Alma Poetry Festival (Soul Flowers) began early this week, which pays tribute to the text of the same name, the first book printed in the province by Manuel Agustín Nápoles Fajardo (brother of El Cucalambé, who used the pseudonym Sanlope).

Ink-scented fingerprints: new summer section
Ink-scented literary fingerprints section

There is no doubt that the writer Eduardo Daniel Rosell Herrera (better known as Rosell) has already left a mark among his contemporaries and has earned respect, verse by verse, with his poems. This young author has been recognized with several awards and invitations to events such as El Árbol que Silva y Canta, Reina del Mar Editores, and the Havana International Book Fair, among other national events.

Luis Antonio González, from Las Tunas, won the First Prize.
Luis Antonio González, from Las Tunas, won the First Prize.

The Guernica Hall 2023 came to an end after two days of actions aimed at promoting artistic creation, from the continuity of conferences given by the Camagüey photographer Argel Ernesto González to a children's workshop that became a sample of the beauty that inhabits both children and adults.

The Soul Flowers poetry event will take place between 22 and 25 August
The Soul Flowers poetry event will take place between 22 and 25 August.
 

From the 9th to the 25th of this month, the Provincial Committee of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC by its acronym in Spanish) is holding a series of celebrations in honor of the 62nd anniversary of this institution, founded on 22 August 1961, with the national poet Nicolás Guillén as its first president.