The copy will compile texts of the participants, will use handmade formats and not conventional supports and will work like memory of the important national appointment of the Hermanos Saíz Association.
“These publications have neither ISBN nor copyright payment. To sew the first book of the Crusade will be a good opportunity to promote the young literature of an alternative way”, said Annalis Castillo, principal organizer of the event.
In the “Workshop of cardboard publishing houses and alternative publications”, Junior Fernández Guerra and Yanelys Encinosa, two Cubans with experience in the matter, will offer the proper hardware of this Latin-American phenomenon, arisen in Buenos Aires, which discusses the value of the book on the neoliberal market and its logic of production and distribution.
Another innovation of the Literary Crusade will come with the exhibit “Retoños de Almendro”, which in the gallery Gestus of the House of the Young Creator and in community spaces will present an audio book of La Luz Editions with Holguín narrators.
The managers of the event also highlighted like significant moments the talk about the fantastic literature and the science fiction in Cuba and the celebration for the 105 years of Esther Montes of Oca, mother of the Saíz brothers, both on the 7th; the big concert of troubadours and poets on eve of the birthday of Fidel Castro and already the 13th, the exhibition of visual arts in homage to the Historical Leader of the Cuban Revolution, in the head office of the Provincial Government.
Every summer the group of associates backtracks the geography of the territory, with actions to decentralize the culture, to come up to places of difficult access and to reinforce the bonds with collaborators like the Provincial Center of the Book and the Literature.
“With the Book we have the strongest, oldest and most united brotherhood among the AHS and the institutions of the Culture. Another example of it is Pórtico, the new collection that has arranged the Publishing House Ácana for the young authors”, ensure Yunielkis Naranjo, president of the branch of Camagüey.
Half of the 60 participants comes from the oriental region of Cuba and Havana; they all will walk with the determination to seduce with literature and poetry, with music and orality in the municipalities of Sierra de Cubitas, Santa Cruz del Sur, Nuevitas, Guáimaro and Camagüey.
“The Crusade is a beautiful trip that does the book for places where it is not used to go. It has taught us to know publics who for us had been plunged”, summed up Isaac Licor, director of the Provincial Center of the Book and the Literature.
Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez
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