The International Jury in charge of presenting the Art and Letters ALBA Awards 2014 will session at the ALBA´s Cultural House in Havana on next Wednesday December 3rd. They jury is composed by several regional personalities: Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuban poet and essayist, Letters ALBA Award in 2008, Alí Rodríguez Araque, Venezuelan politician, lawyer and diplomatist and Emiliano Mazza de Luca, Uruguayan producer.

El Guitarrista, a mural by Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919-1999) is decorating the external side of the pavilion devoted to such important Ecuadorian painter to the outskirts of the Half-of-the-World city.  The sample was managed by Pichincha´s prefect, Gustavo Baroja and Pablo Guayasamín,son of the artist and president of the namesake foundation.

The audience from Cienfuegos will be able to enjoy the presentation of a group of women at the Tomás Terry theater on November 26th. They use batá drums, claves and cherequé to perform rumba and other similar genres from the Cuban music.  This is the Obiní Batá group, composed by six members conducted by Eva Caridad Despaigne Trujillo. They were founded in 1993 and have offered their art to several Cuban and foreign cities.