When the Unión saxophone quartet performed Acuarela de Brasil, the music enveloped the Casino Campestre as in the animated audiovisual that made it possible to apprehend that other anthem of a nation these days highlighted in the largest cultural event in Cuba.

The opening show of the Book Fair in Camagüey, which for several years has been directed by the artistic director Jesús Rueda, managed to combine dance, scenic and literary motifs for that dedication.

It flowed from the Girl from Ipanema, also played by Unión, to the Portuguese song sung by Liudmila Pardillo. It was contained in the poem evoked by Thiago de Melo, the one that between verses dictates statutes for man, and only prohibits loving without love. Then, part of a story by Frei Betto, The Elephant and the Ant, which the Guiñol of Camagüey is preparing for its premiere, crowned the stage.

In the area where the main stage is located there is a regular group at this event. The Carsueños project fills each Fair with colors and initiatives. For this it has rag dolls on display with the image of typical and popular Brazilian characters.

There has been more that brings the art and talent of the South American giant to the city, through literary proposals, thought and the construction of imaginaries from the audiovisual, as emerged in the panel honoring Brazil at the café La Comarca.

Since the morning, with his intellectual stature, the researcher and essayist Juan Antonio García Borrero, chosen to offer the opening speech, summarized with two ideas the emotion that must move and expand the Fair: the defense of the book as content and mystery beyond of supports and forms, and the exercise of writing and interpretation as a tool to transform reality today.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez