CAMAGÜEY.- It should have been the formal meeting to establish the organizing commission of the 10th Congress of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) in Camagüey, but it came to a critical debate. That is what national president Luis Morlote aspires to, not only within the circle of the 14 selected people but within the membership.

The audiovisual producer designs and controls a work system to follow with rigor and leadership each step overcome or goal to be achieved by the organization; hence the tour, province by province, for the greeting and the details on the way to the great event in Havana, a distance of 10 months. Uneac was founded in 1961 and brings together more than 8,000 Cubans.

This time the formation of the theme for the conclave will now come from each province. That is why he insisted on dialogue and consensus with the 231 members of Uneac here, for the sake of a forceful and unrepeatable Camagüey proposal, and a report without complacency.

“What I would like is accompaniment. You have tradition, understanding, talent and dedication to the organization,” Morlote emphasized, also with the aspiration that the Congress crystallizes “a revolutionary work platform for the institutional system of culture.”

Artists and intellectuals from the commission and guests pointed out dissatisfaction with approaches without clear and objective answers and insisted that Uneac expand its communication with the language of the new media. They already make up a discussion agenda focused on cultural policy, the education system, the promotion of controversy and the urgency of civic education to associate what is Cuban with the good, the beautiful and the decent things.

“Commitment to the organization cannot happen through what the organization gives us, but rather through what we are capable of offering,” stressed national vice president Magda Resik: “We have to go from snipers to being active participants in cultural processes.”

Translated by Linet ACUÑA QUILEZ