Highlight performance of Artistic Group Maraguán in Europe

Camagüey - The Artistic Group Maraguán, of the University of Camagüey, of the Cuban county of equal names, highlights for its recent presentations in scenarios of the old continent.

The grouping intervened with success in the international festivals of the Towns of the World (Cáceres, Spain) and of Moncoa (Portugal), where was recognized by its profesionality and quality.

This year the group fulfilled its fifteenth tour to Europe, where is also included the participation in the Orense Festival .

In the journey the community will attend until September to eight forums distributed in the two mentioned countries, and will act additionally in Madrid, the Spanish capital.

The repertoire of Maraguán, been founded in 1981, contemplates five shows, among them, Cuban and For the fields of my Cuba.

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Congratulates Provincial Assembly from the Popular Power to the women of Camagüey

Camagüey, 23 Aug. - The Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power emitted a congratulation message to the women of Camagüey, at times of being commemorated this Monday the anniversary 50 of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC).

August 21 2010
“Year 52 of the Revolution.”

To: Federated of Camagüey

Dear partners:

In the memorable day of August 23 ,1960 when the FMC, Fidel was born expressed: “… And today the women meet and constitute this Federation of Cuban Women, united in that word, Cuban ‘', and united in that flag that take in their hands. And have united to work; to work and to fight…”

Fifty calendars have been behind from then on, and in each one of them, refulge the full materialization and glorifier of those ideas, disseminated today for the whole insular geography and particularly for our Camagüey, as a perennial pact of honor and commitment of you with their Revolution.

There have been five decades of tenacity, of tears, of love, of hopes and shared heroism that germinated and were secured in the furrow, in the hospital, in the school, in the industry, in the military unit, or in the unbeaten trench of the home, under Mariana's Sun, Ana, Amalia, Celia, Vilma…

Happiness women of Camagüey in this anniversary 50 of the Federation of Cuban Women, especially, to those that from the district and until the National Parliament give life to our democracy through the Local Organs of the Popular Power. For all, this gift martian that seems to be discovered today: "The whole Homeland is in the woman. If she fails we die; if she is loyal we are…”

Provincial assembly of the Popular Power

Camagüey

Swiss Comics from today in Camagüey

Eduardo Rosales, director of the Provincial Center of the Visual Arts, assured that according to the available references the sample is the first of the mentioned expressive branch in the territory.

Presented previously in Cuba in the 2008 in Havana, the panoramic offers a retrospective one with reproductions of fragments of comics of dozens of authors.

The profesionality, wide variety of styles, topics and publications testify the ancestral print of the Central European country in becoming of an artistic slope whose theoretical foundation and practice is attributed the Swiss Rodolphe Topffer who lived from 1799 to 1846.

In the exhibition figure, also, works of 13 personalities of Camagüeya, several of which concern to the cómics, a branch that has its main creator in Juan Padrón in the Cuban responsibility, with the series played by Elpidio Valdés.

Also linked to the sample, will be inaugurated at the four and 30 of the afternoon, in the gallery of the municipal Government's headquarters, an exhibition of creations of Osvaldo Díaz, of Camagüey.

Image convergence and schemes, the cómics, denominated puppets popularly in Cuba, possesses one of their remote antecedents in the Egyptian papyruses, those which although with other objectives, reflect messages based on the illustrations.(Adolfo Silva Silva)