Cuba’s artistic avant-garde celebrates UNEAC’s anniversary

The National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists(UNEAC), promoter and protector of all the beautiful things its members create, is celebrating its 63rd anniversary with a vision of the future and loyalty to culture.

 
National Poet Nicolas Guillen was not wrong when he founded an organization as significant and necessary as the work that is deposited in it.

Artistic and cultural events throughout the nation will pay tribute to the anniversary, while Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, will receive the Dulce Maria Loynaz Award at the UNEAC’s Villena Hall.

The author, the first from the African continent to receive this prestigious award in 1986, spoke at the International Conference “New Narratives: Memory, Resistance, and Vindication,” on Wednesday in honor of the 30th anniversary of UNESCO’s Slave Route Project.

The opening of an exhibition of posters by graphic humorists who are members of the organization will join the celebration at the Villena Hall, where the Camerata Cortes music group will perform.

On this day, it is appropriate to recall the words of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro after the First Congress of Writers and Artists held on August 22, 1961.

“That spirit of devotion to the revolutionary cause, that awareness of the value of the task that belongs to each one of us, that renunciation of passions, that renunciation of selfishness, personalism, and ambition,” he said.

After his speech, Fidel Castro wished those present “that they will always maintain this exemplary union and it will be more fraternal and closer every day; we wish them the greatest success as writers, artists, that is, as creators, but above all, as the seeds of tomorrow’s homeland.”