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.

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The 15th edition of the Timbalaye International Festival, dedicated to batá drums, will stop in Camagüey on August 29th and 30th along its rumba route, Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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The Old Friends book fair emerged in April 2019 dressed in generous images, among these, the exquisite oil portrait as only the endearing journalist José Aurelio Paz knew how to draw with words: “a whirlwind of hands-books has risen”. Four years later he changed the concept, without losing the vindicating essence of literature.

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El Guiñol de Camagüey premiered The Prince and the Sea, to give joy to children and the family in general at the beginning of a season at its headquarters during July and August.

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24 years after its foundation, Teatro del Viento consolidates its preference in the Camagüey’s taste for the technical and conceptual quality of the proposals, as well as for the astuteness of its director who has known how to educate an audience that makes theater today a necessity within its personal consumption.


Francisco Bernal from Camagüey arrived to the City of Tinajones after a long period on Spanish soil to honor through the brush and canvas the memory of his loved ones with the personal exhibition El tiempo es oro (Time is gold).


 With the will that characterizes the locals, San Juan in Camagüey will return to its traditional program from June 24th to 29th, with parades and floats, the Teatro del Pueblo, in the central Square of El Gallo, and presentations of orchestras from the catalog of the Provincial Music Center in party areas.


Camagüey’s Symphony Orchestra, conductor and Mexican violinist Armando Vargas

18 years ago the City of the Tinajones gave its colonial charms for the first time to the Mexican orchestra director and violinist Armando Vargas Guevara, who returns on this occasion to strengthen the ties of brotherhood created through music between the Aztec country and Cuba.


 My first book, donated on Three Kings Day many years ago, was The Count of Monte Cristo. At first, I did not realize the transcendental nature of that gift. Then, not by chance, I had the opportunity to tour the walls of the prison fortress of the Château d'If on the small island in the Bay of Marseille, where I met Edmund Dantes and his story with Mercedes that I have never forgotten despite time and the avatars.