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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.

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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.

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 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.

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 From May 20th to 24th, Camagüey will dress itself in cherry blossoms and Japanese tradition with the celebration of Hanami, the annual Japanese culture event organized by the MangaQ'ba project. This year’s edition carries special symbolism: the collective’s fifteenth anniversary.

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 The 30th National Workshop on Film Criticism, scheduled to take place from May 28th to 31st, 2026, in Camagüey, has officially announced the call for submissions for the 13th edition of the National Prize for Film Criticism and Research.

 Each year, to mark International Dance Day, a leading figure from the world of dance delivers a message shared with professionals and organizations in more than 200 countries.

Among the excerpts the Camagua Folkloric Company will perform this Saturday, April 11th, at the Avellaneda Theater is Chancleteando. Today, part of the group’s established repertoire, the piece also serves as a symbolic bridge to an unexpected image: a young Fernando Medrano dancing. For decades, Medrano has been publicly defined by his leadership—the director, the researcher, the guide—rather than the performer. And yet, a photograph shared during the recent theoretical session returns him to that origin: a teenager, still in secondary school, performing the very dance of the chancleta.

  Even amid rehearsals at its headquarters on Lugareño Street No. 128, Rumbatá’s director, Wilmer Ferrán, has a clear sense of direction: the group is navigating a period of artistic redefinition, international expansion, and renewed recording ambitions. At the heart of this new phase lies a defining goal—getting their upcoming album into the Grammys’ consideration process.

  Recetofilia is a book that overflows with passion. Those of us who know its author, Camagüey-born writer Evelin Queipo, understand that everything she creates is shaped by the pursuit of perfection that defines her.

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