The culture sector in Cienfuegos worked to increase the quality and diversity of the cultural offers for the audience in local communities and institutions during 2014.  Odalys González Acea, the province´s culture director said to the press that from an original plan of 999 activities the province could carry out more than a thousand for a 119%. Among the cultural offers there were 50 artistic performances and more than 350 concerts in closed and opened areas, including the concert offered by the Salvadorian singer Álvaro Torres.

The versatile Cuban musician Alexander Abreu received the Roseta de Cienfuegos. The higher award presented by this province to the personalities that have a special place in the promotion and preservation of our cultural values.  This artist - born in Cienfuegos and trained in the Ismaelillo band and Rosa Campo´s choir - received the award in a giant concert in which he and his band Havana D´Primera offered his music at Cienfuegos´ square while greeting the new anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

Statement by the Presidency of UNEAC´s Association of Plastic Artists

The well-known artist Tania Bruguera has called for a supposed performance on December 30 at the emblematic Plaza de la Revolución in Havana. This happened to the margin of any Cuban institution and, as it happens in these cases, the initiative has been widely spread by the counterrevolution media, specially by Diario de Cuba, which was one of the first to attack the statements by presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama on December 17th. We have been fighting these battle for many years against the enemies of the Revolution. We are not naive, the meaning of this performance can not be interpreted in any way as an artistic work. This is a political provocation, oriented in the same direction of those whi have spread it.