Photo: File Adelante CAMAGÜEY.-Florida's citizen Elena María Obregón Navarro deserved the 2022 Living Memory Award in the category of Personalities, a recognition granted by the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute of Cultural Research.
According to the information published on the digital site La Jiribilla, the file highlights her work as an oral storyteller and artisan, although we are well aware of her deployment in theater, music, and literature.
Elena has specialized in the Japanese technique of amigurumi and she achieves symmetrical figures, of great beauty and with obvious art in crafts. She learned to weave from her mother.
This award ponders genuine values of traditional Cuban popular culture, its bearers, its impact both at the local/community level, as well as its impact on the cultural sphere of the Cuban nation, the note specifies.
Raymalú Morales Mejías, Caridad Santos Gracia, and Rafael Lara González made up the jury that evaluated 49 proposals from eight provinces and awarded 31 awards and special recognition, including other categories, from Villa Clara, Santiago de Cuba, Matanzas, Camagüey, Havana, Las Tunas and Artemisa.
The delivery ceremony will be held on November 29, Elena said on Facebook, with whom Adelante recently spoke about the First Ibero-American Congress of the Tenth and Improvised Verse, for being the only delegate of the Cuban Association of People with Physical-Motor Disabilities (Aclifim).
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez