Deep reflections on the cultural mission of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) animated the annual plenary session of this organization in Matanzas, where it was highlighted that the role of the presidency cannot focus only on carrying out activities in the House of the UNEAC, but should extend its influence to… Continue Reading »
The certainty that the Union of Writers and Artists in #Matanzas constitutes a fortress to stop the pseudo-culture that conspires against the spirituality and innate patriotism of our people, transcended in the annual plenary session prior to the ninth Congress of the UNEAC, held in this capital provincial. The first agreements emanated were unanimous rejection… Continue Reading »
The Pharmaceutical Museum of Matanzas, French Drugstore formerly of Ernesto Triolet, received today the Museum of the Year Award 2018, granted by the Cuban Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). José (Pepe) Linares, President of ICOM in the country, explained that the award recognizes the most outstanding institution for the integral and sustained… Continue Reading »
The Biennial in Matanzas created very serious and beautiful bridges between artists from more than a dozen countries, not many friends call it the biennial of love, said María Magdalena Campos-Pons, director of the Intermittent Rivers project that turned the first city modern of Cuba in subsede of the greatest event of the visual arts… Continue Reading »
Ernesto Millán is responsible for the white sheet adornment in Matanzas during these Biennial days. His sheets hang down the main artery of the city center and trap, provoke, attract the attention of the passer-by. Millán, graduated in Philology in the German language in 1998, is part of the “Arraigo” Photography Collective, which is a… Continue Reading »
The Nelson Barrera Rodríguez Community Center, in the neighborhood of the Marina in Matanzas, in collaboration with the Directorate of Culture and Heritage, called to participate in the first Colloquium “African Legacy in our community.” The event begins on May 25, Africa Day, and ends on the 26th, in this first edition dedicated to the… Continue Reading »
The Lorenzo Padilla Foundation, based in France, made a donation of supplies to students of painting at the School of Plastic Arts of the city of Matanzas in the framework of the XIII Biennial of Havana. The donation marked the beginning of a cultural exchange agreement between the Provincial Council of the Visual Arts and… Continue Reading »
Matanzas enjoyed the X Street Theater Day. In the Parque de la Libertad or the Rueda Dentada, in the streets of day or night, an enchanted audience was always kept alive with the magic of traveling artists. The shows were varied from elaborate performance to circus performances, through the attractive living statues, which this… Continue Reading »
The designer and artisan María del Carmen García presented the Susini collection and contemporaneity, a trip through time in the Office of the City Curator, as part of the activities of the XIII Biennial of Havana. The 17 designs inspired by the fashion of the nineteenth century to the present combine elegant dresses with fans,… Continue Reading »
The inauguration gala of the 13th Havana Biennial in Matanzas turned out to be a cultural event in one of the privileged sites of the so-called Athens of Cuba. The announced spectacle took to the public of the city of rivers and bridges to congregate in the margins of the San Juan and in the… Continue Reading »
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