Children in the Party of Mud and Fire

Camagüey. A group of children put yesterday a peculiar stamp in the IV Party of Mud and Fire that gathers about 70 farmers of one of the oldest traditions in this city been founded in the XVI century.

The scholars demonstrated - outside of competition - their abilities in the work with the clay, in an appointment in which the contestants carry out the works in one of the sidewalks of the Square of the Workers.

Students of fifth and sixth grades of the primary school Gerardo Medina, are integral of the dean of the circles of interest favored by shops of the neighborhood of San Miguelito, headquarters of the biggest concentration in artisans of the ceramic in the town.

The beginner authors materialized today - to give them to their facility - reproductions of the native symbols, and ornamental and utilitarian pieces, task in which they used two techniques, the modeling manual and the replica for molds.

They participate in the most recent preparation phase in charge of the workshop "García", where a family of creators trains them there in days of two or three times per week.

The García has assisted to several communities from the beginning of his project to channel the autoral vocation of infants in a sphere in the one that Camagüey is the main positions occupies in the Island.

Organized by the provincial branch of the Cuban Association of Artisans Artists, the Party of Mud and Fire.

It will conclude tomorrow with the delivery of rewards in four competitive categories.

Among the colateral activities of the contest figure conferences, and the exhibition of the 17 murals donated by members of the entity to be located in areas of use public in territory of Camagüey.(Adolfo Silva Silva)