CAMAGÜEY. - The Fair of Craft 500 +, promoted by the Cuban Fund of Cultural Assets, in its next edition from February 2 until February 10 will have major space in the longed Fairground of this city.

More than 50 craftsmen of eight provinces will come with gold work, ceramics, footwear, furniture, textile and costume jewelry, among other products of the declarations identified in Cuba with the art of the handicrafts, and available for the public from 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.

On February 4th, the Fair 500 + will include a space of theoretical exchange, with the investigators Olga García Yero and Luis Álvarez about the status of the craft at present, at 9:30 a.m.; and with Nazario Salazar Martínez, founder of the Camagüey´s Movement of the New Ceramics, at 2:00 p.m.

The branch of the Fund in Camagüey will make use of the conjuncture to take part for the first time in the Business Meeting EXPOCAM' 2019, summoned by the Territorial Chamber of Commerce, foreseen also in the Fairground.

“We will present our products and will propose the tinajón and other pieces of pottery like Camagüey´s souvenir”, said in press conference Beatriz Ochoa Pupo, specialist in Development and Image of the branch of the Fund.

The Fairground is located in the street Ignacio Agramonte, where the ancient Power station took root, and it has two pavilions in a 1500 m² roofed explanatory area, the amphitheater with capacity for 6000 thousand spectators, areas of parking and lounges of meetings enabled with access to Internet and wifi, among other characteristics.

In addition to the Fair of Craft 500 +, the Fund will pay tribute to the Camagüey´s Week of the Culture with an exhibition of works of Isabel de las Mercedes, main exponent of the naif art in the city.

Ochoa Pupo assured, that Alexandrina Silvera, Isabel's daughter, gave the sample, which includes pieces never exhibited before, and that it will be able to be appreciated from February the 1st, at 4:00 p.m. in the gallery Amalia located in the avenue of the Libertad, number 112.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez