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With the aim of encouraging literary creation and as part of the celebrations for Camagüey Culture Week, scheduled from February 1st to 7th, the Provincial Center for Books and Literature, Ácana Publishing House, and the Municipal Department of Culture have announced the call for the 2026 Silvestre de Balboa City Prize, dedicated this year to poetry.

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From January 22 to 27, Camagüey will host a new edition of the Villanueva Days, commemorating the events of January 22nd, 1869, at the Villanueva Theatre—when Cuban theatre became a platform for national affirmation in the face of colonial rule.

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 We were at La Comarca, a space where words, images, and conversation meet, within the framework of the Golpe a Golpe Young Creators Fair—an initiative that is not just an event, but a way of insisting on art as a collective gesture, even in difficult times.

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We began without electricity. Inside the Fénix Room of the Casablanca Multicine, a small generator barely powered a couple of cameras and lights—just enough to sustain a dream: a conversation with Teodoro and Santiago Ríos, the Canarian filmmakers who have learned to see Cuba as a homeland of childhood and memory.

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The news arrived the way good things often do: with a soft tremor recognized even before reading it fully. Artisan Luisa Aurora Morell Cabrera, 88, has been granted the Memoria Viva Award 2025 in the Personality category, bestowed by the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute for Cultural Research.

Despite the rain, the restaurant El Emperador, located near the Casino Campestre in the city of Camagüey, opened its doors on the morning of Saturday, October 25th, 2025, to host the Provincial Literary Workshops Event for Adults, organized by the Provincial Center for Houses of Culture (CPCC). The gathering brought together the winners of the municipal-level competitions.

Hatuey bids farewell to one of its most beloved daughters. Trinidad Cruz Crespo (Trinita), renowned artisan and cultural promoter, passed away on October 30th, 2025, at the age of 100, in Hatuey, Sibanicú. Her life was a tapestry of creativity, teaching, and love for useful beauty—one that turned her hometown into the Cradle of Camagüey Handicrafts.

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee mingled with the morning freshness in the courtyard of the Alejo Carpentier Gallery. Between the white columns and wrought-iron tables, we spoke with Isnel Plana Pérez, painter and geologist, who was returning to a place that was once his own.

After several weeks of work at its headquarters, the Camagüey Contemporary Ballet premiered the piece Voces (Voices) on October 24th at the Avellaneda Theater, choreographed by Danish artist Jens Bjerregaard.

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