A giant dream for Camagüey

With the develation of the giant cloth doll Leonor, merit of the handmade artistic work of the community project Carsueños that directs Carmen Soto, the Square of the Workers became one of the spaces of more concurrence during the Week of the Culture ofCamagüey, day that celebrates the 496 anniversary of the foundation of the Villa Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe up to February 7.

Inspired in the black doll of Piedad, of The Age of Gold, the enormous handmade making—sewn by thirteen women of the project—it required more than 2 000 pounds of filler, around 300 meters of black cloths , white, red and blue, 25 rope meters, 15 rolls without stopping, and ten months of uninterrupted work. The task, with idea and original design of the own Carmen, it is dedicated mainly to the children and all the inhabitants of the community, collaborators and members of Carsueños that, with own efforts, were able to materialize to great scale one of their biggest challenges.

Although at the beginning it seemed almost impossible, to see it in the Square moves and it is touching, admit Leonor's makers agents who with their tri-colored Cuban robe, their gigantic braids and the impressive precision of their proportions, has become the big daughter of the house of the puppets.

Carsueños, inmerse in the wide cultural community movement of the city of agramonte, is one of the sociocultural projects centered in potentiate the development of the artistic manifestations and the well-being in the inhabitants of the community. With the support of the Provincial Center of Houses of Culture, this type of ambition has had excellent results in the thirty and a houses of culture of the thirteen municipalities of the county. Excellence groups like Maraguán, the theatrical project . La Andariega for children and young, and some more recent ones in combination with other institutions like the therapeutic method of Equinotherapy for children with mental delay, and glass Prints, work with vitrals to rescue the artistic patrimony in glass and metal of the county, they constitute examples of a consolidated technical and methodological work.

As Isis Betancourt to,, boss of the Department of Artistic and Literary Creation, explains more than 10 000 fans plays the cultural life in the communities of Camagüey in spite of the few resources, "of there the social impact that has this giant doll, the most important paper has had the families and the inhabitants that have sustained the project from the point of having seen spiritual and material."

Without doubts, the shortage has potenciated the creativity and for the cultural growing movement of fond of the country, Leonor, the black doll, is a symbol that confirms that from its magnitudes the imagination and the perseverance overcome to any difficulty.(Amelia Duarte de la Rosa )