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I had seen Tatiana Morales Rodríguez around. I knew about the Russian woman who has lived in Camagüey for more than four decades, but I had never actually spoken with her. Just a few minutes before the Book Fair press conference was due to begin, we finally had the chance to talk briefly.

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Mágicos Caprichos is one of the latest titles published by Ediciones Loynaz and will be presented at the Book Fair, scheduled to bring the summer season to a close in the city of Camagüey. 

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From the entrance of the house, your eyes travel across the courtyard. First they find the vegetation: leaves opening overhead, plants filling the corners, shadows shifting with the light. Then, almost at the very back, a woman appears.

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Thursday was the last class of the summer. After that will come the graduation ceremony being organized by the Cuban Association of Artisan Artists in Camagüey for students from the different workshops. But before bringing this short series to a close, I wanted to pause over a discovery that perhaps was not part of the original plan: the crochet girls.

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On His Shoulders, the Dawn: Camagüey Poetry Dedicated to Fidel Castro brings together texts by 29 authors in a book that, beyond its commemorative purpose, documents the different ways in which a historical figure can become part of collective memory and be transformed into poetry.

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.

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.

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.

 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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