CAMAGÜEY.- Every month there is a literary club in the house of Argelia, number 4 of Callejón de Alegría in the city of Camagüey. Adelante was there on the third Thursday of April. I wish we had enough space to have great detail, although the lines do confirm how well it goes with the grandmothers of a circle named like a glove: Alegrías de vivir (Joys of Living).

At nine in the morning, after training in the street with the physical exercises teacher, they continued to the most popular room in the neighborhood, because the house runs with that kind of "command post" where the initiative of the neighborhood is cooked, as it happens to Pánfilo in the television program.

We count fifteen people, but the "registration" of enthusiasts exceeds the number. In fact, that day Irma and Lolita were absent due to discomfort that prevented them from leaving. Usually they don't believe in ailments. It is known by how cute they are. We do not say it because of the exquisite physical appearance, but because of the words, complicity, laughter, applause, affection. They come together from various professions: dentistry, services, agronomy, accounting, secretarial, chemistry and teaching predominates.

No one looks the age. Those of sixty are close to seventy. The leaders of the project are octogenarians of "Olympiad". I did not say that Luisa, the hostess of the literary club, is 85 years old. There is no today without yesterday. She is a writer, cultural promoter and plastic artist. Last month there she exhibited a personal sample of portraits of women's faces, made with tempera and watercolor on cardboard.

Although she goes in her role as advisor to the House of Culture, Yuly Roque takes advantage and sings in a gathering also supported by the Provincial Center for Books and Literature. That day bookstores arrived with offers of various titles.

Although she goes in her role as advisor to the House of Culture, Yuly Roque takes advantage and sings in a rock also supported by the Provincial Center for Books and Literature. That day bookstores arrived with offers of various titles.

The dynamics of the supporters club is based on a theme, on this occasion, the feat of Girón. Hence, the appreciated audiovisual, the phrases of Fidel shared and commented, the music interpreted by Yuli, who always accompanies on behalf of the Ignacio Agramonte House of Culture together with the adviser Encarnación, who created a literary workshop with them. Here we publish one of the poems read.

For the section "What do I bring here?", Luisa Morell Cabrera took a photograph of her from 1958, dressed in uniform as a clandestine fighter. She belonged to the Noel Fernández cell.

The surprise comes with the sections. For example, they identify as "The daring ones" those in charge of offering their texts that day. Another segment, the "What do I bring here?", it functions as the "guess section" with questions like those of that Write and read program. Almost at the end they do a nice raffle to give away whatever object they bring and at the end they also dance.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez

  old film

To return is to return, to find ─in the remoteness of time─ fragments of a film at times without color: the sad scene, the happy one, the dreams that were not... oh, disappointment! There are imitations of a Fellini take, the outcome of an old Soviet film... It's much sadder to return without nostalgia, without anything extraordinary to tell. Existence, you've already passed... and I'm still a teenager.

Lexcy Garces Quintana