Restore headquarters of the Superior Institute of Art in Camagüey

Camagüey - The project of repair of the educational headquarters of the Branch of the Superior Institute of Art in Camagüey, one of the three of its type in Cuba, was the main reason for the encounter between the professors of this center and Rolando González Patricio, rector of the facility.

With the attendance of distinguished personalities of the culture and the government of the territory, the appointment lapsed in the room of concerts José Luis Betancourt, of the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey.

Yaxely González Carmenates, general planner of the works for the building of the branch, highlighted the importance of the rehabilitation of the formerly the mothers' ursulinas convent, located in the area of the historical center of the city declared Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.

The project plan the implementation of necessary enclosures for the artistic teaching as theater, library, wood and specialized classrooms for music.

Encouraged by the repair of this building and for the artistic potentialities of the territory, the educational ones proposed the rector of the Institute the future creation of day regular courses in Camagüey, service so far only toasted by the ISA in Havana. And for a nearer tomorrow requested the inclusion of other specialties like folkloric ballet.

The representation of important cultural institutions and political organs allowed the professors to value the achievements and difficulties of the course 2009-2010, until today that of bigger graduation of this center, besides facilitating him the layout of strategies for the development of the branch in the current educational period.

Rolando González exhorted to transform the institution into an imam for the talents of the centeroriental region of Cuba and highlighted the work of the educational ones and artists implied in the center.

Also, he insisted in the necessity of forming professionals according to the necessities of the territory. "I believe that we can count with which in a relatively brief term we have a deluxe branch, not only for the property, but for the own internal development of the branch", the rector commented and it congratulated all for the demonstrated institutional maturation.

In this course the branch of the ISA in Camagüey turns twenty-two years of having been founded. It began with music's disciplines, in the guitar specialty and danzary art in the ballet profile.

Today, sum nine musical instruments more to its teaching (piano, flute, saxophone, etc.), includes folkloric dance and the career of art of the audiovisual media, with five specialties, among them, address, production and sound.

Its current registration is of 112 students and the cloister 80 professors conform it (Rogelio Serrano Pérez).