Asela de los Santos Tamayo, a leading Cuban revolutionary and pedagogue, died in the early hours of this Thursday, January 23rd, at the age of 90 years.
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Approximately 30 national theater groups will participate, including El Viento Theater Group, El Portazo Theater Group, El Publico Theater Group, the Guinol Theater Group of Santa Clara and of Remedios, El Mejunje Theater Company, and the Escambray Theater Group, among others.
The last concert of the 2020 Longina Festival dressed itself in Cuban Trova last Sunday night on the boulevard of Santa Clara and, with the collective presentation of the youngest generation of singer-songwriters, honored the work of Silvio Rodriguez, one of the protagonists of the creative impulse of the 70´s decade of the last century.
The journalists from Villa Clara paid tribute to the Cuban National Hero Jose Marti at the awards ceremony of the provincial competitions of the guild, which was attended by Yudi Rodriguez Hernandez, member of the Central Committee of the Party and its first secretary in Villa Clara.
From January 8th to January 12th, Santa Clara will host the Longina National Encounter of Troubadours, an intergenerational event that this time will be dedicated to the ICAIC Sound Experimentation Group (GESI), in tribute to the enormous footprint that project left on the Cuban cinema and music.
In the afternoon of last Thursday, January 2nd, 2020, Rolando Gonzalez Reyes (Roland), a leading cartoonist of the Melaito humorous supplement of Villa Clara, died at the age of 78.
The photographic exhibition “Carnal” by the photographer Gabriel Davalos was inaugurated this Friday at the Provincial Center of the Visual Arts of Villa Clara, a work that served as art to the homonymous disc of the Cuban music group “Buena Fe”, which celebrates its 20 years of creation.
The works “Outside the coverage area”, by Reinaldo Hernandez Valera, and the set of works by Michel Moro Gomez, both from Cuba, won the first prizes in the categories of general and erotic humor, respectively, during the inauguration of the XIX International Exhibition of Graphic Humor, held in Santa Clara.
With the personal exhibition Pedro el Grande, by the cartoonist Pedro Mendez Suarez, founder of the Melaito Supplement, the XIX International Exhibition of Graphic Humor was inaugurated on Wednesday in Santa Clara; an exposition that it can also be found at the Agesta Forum of the UNEAC in Villa Clara.
Like in every December, Santa Clara becomes the capital of the Cuban graphic humor, just when the XIX International Exhibition of Graphic Humor and Design opens its doors, from December 18th to December 20th, which brings together over one hundred artists from the center of the country and from the world.
Carnal, an exhibition of the outstanding photographer Gabriel Davalos, will be open to the public, starting this Friday, December 20th at the Provincial Gallery of Art of Santa Clara; featuring snapshots that also summarize the aesthetics of the dancers of the Baila Cuba and Danza del Alma Companies.
Yudi Rodriguez Hernandez, member of the Central Committee of the Party and its first secretary in the territory, extended her congratulations to all the artists and members of the sector, who every day ensure the most natural values of our Island.
From December 9th and until December 19th, the Quinteto Criollo will be recording a new album of Cuban peasant music at the Eusebio Delfin Studios of Bis Music, located in the city of Cienfuegos, as part of the stimulus after winning the 2018 National Classic of Punto Cubano.