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At the Biblioteca Provincial Julio Antonio Mella, during Camagüey’s Culture Week, a panel marked the 95th anniversary of the birth of Jaime Sarusky. For me, speaking about someone I barely knew, yet who left a profound imprint, always stirs a mixture of gratitude and tremor.

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Although the Havana International Book Fair has been postponed due to Cuba’s complex current situation, the Camagüey-based Editorial Ácana continues its work. That persistence was evident at the Camagüey Writers’ Meeting, where several authors previewed completed projects and others still in progress.

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A few days ago, the extracurricular reading assignment arrived: The Little Prince. My daughter, who is 11, found herself facing a book I had already read to her before. Because it’s small and slim, it didn’t seem overwhelming or intimidating.

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At times, it felt as if the entrance to the Julio Antonio Mella Provincial Library was no longer in Camagüey but at a crossroads of centuries: ancient Greece, nineteenth-century Cuba, Dickens’s Europe, Eva Perón’s Argentina, Gaitán’s Colombia. As Félix Julio Alfonso López spoke, time seemed to open like a fan.

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The third edition of the National Handicrafts Fair (FENAR) will take place from January 31st to February 13th at the Camagüey Fairgrounds, bringing together 67 exhibitors from several Cuban provinces.

Despite current economic constraints, Camagüey has decided to go ahead with its Culture Week, scheduled for February 1st–7th, as an exercise in responsibility and identity. Formats and scope have been adjusted, but the city has not renounced the core purpose of bringing together memory, artistic creation, and cultural life on the occasion of the 512th anniversary of its founding.

With the aim of encouraging literary creation and as part of the celebrations for Camagüey Culture Week, scheduled from February 1st to 7th, the Provincial Center for Books and Literature, Ácana Publishing House, and the Municipal Department of Culture have announced the call for the 2026 Silvestre de Balboa City Prize, dedicated this year to poetry.

From January 22 to 27, Camagüey will host a new edition of the Villanueva Days, commemorating the events of January 22nd, 1869, at the Villanueva Theatre—when Cuban theatre became a platform for national affirmation in the face of colonial rule.

 

I walked into a rehearsal of The Weight of an Island three days before its premiere. The Avellaneda Theater had no electricity. The stage was held together by the faint daylight filtering in from one side and a few scattered flashlights that carved moving bodies out of the darkness. There was no lighting design yet—though Freddys Núñez Estenoz’s was already on paper—but there was something more essential: theater stripped to its core, where gesture, word, and breath are enough.

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