Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 2nd, the University of the Arts (ISA) will hold its 44th graduation ceremony at the Karl Marx Theater. This occasion not only commemorates the end of a successful academic year but also pays tribute to the 95th anniversary of the birth of Armando Hart Dávalos and Roberto Fernández Retamar.
María Luisa Pérez López de Queralta, vice-rector for educational work and cultural development (University Extension) at the university, told the Cuban News Agency that 289 students from the Havana, Holguin, Camagüey, and Santiago de Cuba branches will graduate. These students, she said, are graduating from the various bachelor’s programs offered by ISA, namely, music, theater, dance, cultural heritage conservation, audiovisual media communication, and visual arts. Without forgetting short-term specialties such as stage production and direction.
This fulfills the goal of training artists who develop in a social setting to contribute to the broader design of Cuba’s cultural policy. Where art is not a privilege for anyone, but rather a space for popular participation based on talent and a passion for a particular form of expression, she emphasized.
The fact that the 44th class has been accepted has special significance, since despite the fact that these are very expensive programs worldwide. A university like this, dreamed of by the country’s top leadership since the triumph of the Revolution, makes the aspirations of all those with talent and the desire to study a reality, she added.
Pérez López de Queralta expressed satisfaction knowing that these students are graduating with an awareness of the role that art plays in transforming the community and preserving national identity through creation, critical thinking, participation, and dialogue with society as a whole.
The ISA, she explained, was founded in 1976 as a higher education institution that contributed to the consolidation of the cultural institutional system and the organizational structure of the Ministry of Culture, which emerged that same year.
Of the total number of graduates from the University of the Arts this past academic year, 210 new artists are from the branch in the Cuban capital. Therefore, the jubilation of family and friends present at the Karl Marx University will be the starting point for a future of creation and personal fulfillment, concluded the official and distinguished writer and researcher.
With information from CNA
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez
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