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Healing Body and Soul: A Cuban Nurse’s Mission in La Guaira
It was 6:10 p.m., and she was resting at home. She never imagined she would experience anything like it. In Cuba, she had never lived through an earthquake, and nothing had prepared her for what was about to happen.
Read more ...Golpe a Golpe Brings a Variety of Activities to the Summer Season
With a program designed to promote learning, recreation, and community engagement, the provincial socio-cultural project Golpe a Golpe is offering a wide range of activities throughout the summer break for participants of all ages.
Read more ...Winners Announced in Camagüey’s Nicolás Guillén Chronicle Competition and Symposium
Photo: Courtesy of the Camagüey branch of the Cuban Journalists Association (UPEC) via Facebook. The Audiovisual Award went to Carmen y Martí: A Love Story, by María del Carmen Fuentes Pérez and Lázaro Ernesto Torres of Televisión Camagüey.
On the 37th anniversary of the death of Nicolás Guillén Batista, the Camagüey chapter of the Cuban Journalists Association (UPEC) presented the awards for the Fifth Nicolás Guillén Chronicle Competition and Symposium, an event dedicated to Cuba’s National Poet.
Read more ...Young Pioneer Action Forces Return This Summer
The Young Pioneer Action Forces (FAPI) will return this summer to engage Cuban schoolchildren in productive work, the preservation of local history, and energy-saving initiatives.
Germán Velazco: Between Legend and Memory
When Germán Velazco begins telling his story, the conversation quickly stops feeling like an interview and becomes a journey through several decades of Cuban music history. A saxophonist, flutist, arranger, producer, and one of the essential figures of Cuban jazz and popular dance music, Velazco arrived in Camagüey as a guest of the second edition of Jazz Príncipe, where he shared memories, anecdotes, and reflections on a career that has taken him from the classrooms of Cuba’s National School of Arts to legendary ensembles such as Irakere, NG La Banda, and Pablo Milanés’ touring band.
The Conversation We Still Need
I returned to the National Colloquium on Cultural Journalism. It has now reached its ninth edition. Inevitably, I found myself remembering the first one, back in 2018. A severe weather alert threatened to derail the event, but the participants came anyway. They crossed the country however they could to gather in Camagüey and talk about a profession that, then as now, was facing its own uncertainties.
Young Writers Keep Literary Creativity Thriving
Literary creation among children and adolescents continues to show encouraging results in Camagüey, judging by the quality of the works recently evaluated within the province’s network of Houses of Culture.
