The Cartón Creativo project opens an attractive channel for the visual arts in Camagüey, with promotional management and the contemporary art market from private spaces. It is a gradual practice in Cuba, thriving in Havana. Therefore, attempting it in a territory without the opportunities or privileges of the capital is irreverent against the myths of geographical fatality.

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 Among the publicly assumed legacies of another era with a divergent regime and ideology in relation to the current political system, the Lectura del Bando (Reading of the Proclamation) in Camagüey reinforces as a tradition the practice of discourse from power.

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The venue is once again oxygenated with popular culture, like every year during these days of February. The 510th anniversary of the town of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe motivates for the tenth time the inauguration of the Art and Crafts Fair at the Fairgrounds of this city. Teatro de Luz, together with the talent of the Folkloric Ballet, illuminated the beginning of this great festival that, for the first time, is projected internationally.

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For the Adelante newspaper, each January marks twice the time of sunrise. We put goals into orbit for the small and unchanging cycle of the new year. In sight, the challenge of making a difference in the great trajectory of this medium. Achieving this will take effort and passion to tell the truth. It will also depend on the ability to surround ourselves with those who are better than us. Therefore, good company fills us with joy in the awakening of 2024, because our dawn already has a name. It's Nazario Salazar.

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For the physical and spiritual traces of the city

For Culture Week, the Office of the Historian of Camagüey (OHCC) prepares an always peculiar program, related by its director José Rodríguez Barreras with the sense of an institution destined to "save the physical footprint of the city."


 When at the beginning of the month, the Desandann Vocal Group said goodbye to the year in the space of its club at the Cine Encanto, a lady won all the awards. She is the mother of professional singer Marina Collazo, as charismatic and authentic as she is. Since that day I want to interview Julia Fernández Martínez.


The Camagüey's Culture Week will have a single dedication. This is the city built over time, with the starting point being the founding of the Villa de Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe on February 2nd, 1514.


As a good omen, the Ballet of Camagüey (BC) will dance the Nutcracker suite for the second consecutive year on the same day in December, very close to its birthday, although far from home to begin its fourth tour in Spain.


The international Camagua Folk Dance festival draws from Camagüey a different map for dance, research and thinking around ancestral practices that define the faces of local identities and sustain cultural resistance.