Lalita Curbelo Barberán Cultural Center is recognized on the 17th anniversary of its founding
Lalita Curbelo Barberán, the woman with green eyes, blonde hair, a poetic soul and a special sensitivity for children, is remembered on the 94th anniversary of her birth on February 12, 1930, in the town of San Germán.
The remembrance came with the aromas of the trees of the patio, from her last dwelling in the colonial mansion of Frexes street, in the city of Holguin, where she wrote to life, to death, the sea, mothers, Cuba, the beloved Homeland.
Holguin writer Lourdes Gonzalez Herrero, who accompanied her until her last days expressed: “From my heart I admit to Lalita that I miss her very much, but from her house we still talk about poems, authors and seas and songs that rise up to you”.
Maestro and guitarist Eliécer Travieso Venéreo, evoked her from his strings with a Lorquian work accompanied by his daughter and expressed his eternal gratitude to the author of “Catedrales de hormiga. “I am very grateful to Lalita, I met her in a club of cultural promoter Joaquín Osorio at Casa de Iberoamérica. Curbelo and a Spanish writer Ana María F. had been invited there”.
I didn’t have my own guitar and I didn’t have a stool and I used to turn my right foot to place the guitar. And with the help of the Spanish writer Ana María, who was interested in what I was doing, I got my guitar and the stool in 1995. From there my career took off,” said Travieso and added: “My child crawled through this house and I am very grateful to Lalita.
The tribute joins the 17 years of the creation of the Lalita Curbelo Cultural Center, Barberán with an incessant promotion of Carmen Mora, who has made known to Cuba and the world the work of the poetess from Holguin, as if it were her own, with a zeal for her protection.
The colonial mansion, headquarters of the Cultural Center, is directed by poet Gilberto Gonzalez Seik, who emphasized: “this Center has been recognized as the best institution, as Cultural Event of the Year. We have always tried to have an outstanding work. We have the energy upstairs. This is a miraculous house, as is culture, poetry and art”.
The institution with an important information center and a program of fixed spaces and others with main axis in the work of Curbelo Barberán, received in this 17 anniversary the recognition of the Municipal Direction of Culture.
At the same time it was distinguished by the University of Holguin, from the Chair Lalita Curbelo Barberan and the specialty of Special Education.
Singers Gladys María Bonet and María Fermina performed songs from the national musical pentagram. Holguin actress Martha Proenza, Lalita’s student, remembered her from the verses composed by her former elementary school teacher.
Osmany Viñals García, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in the municipality of Holguín, expressed that neither art, nor traditions and work by Lalita Curbelo Barberán should not be forgotten.
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