“It was conceived to provide a learning space and encourage creation, while serving as vocational instruction and to take advantage of the time during this holiday period in a pleasant and useful way,” Mercedes Muñoz, coordinator of the initiative called First Pixels Workshop, explained to Prensa Latina.

This aims to bring children closer to the basic tools and primary concepts of photography, Muñoz, who recalled that this initiative was created by the center in 2010, although it was interrupted during the years of the Covid-19 pandemic, added.

“We are taking it up again this year as part of the program for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Institute created on October 17, 1983,” the coordinator said.

The course taught by award-winning photojournalist Reno Massola includes a practical workshop at Havana’s historic Finca de los Molinos, a botanical project and home to the Museum dedicated to Maximo Gomez, an iconic figure of Cuba’s wars of independence against Spanish colonialism.

Mercedes Muñoz added that the workshop will address the access and use of social networks with advice for parents provided by Unicef’s “Mídete” campaign, which aims to teach parents how to regulate the use of social media by minors.

To celebrate 40 years of Ipijm’s work, a program of varied activities will be held, among them a symposium to which foreign journalists are invited, “Political and Media Confrontation in Latin America and the Caribbean 200 years after the Monroe Doctrine”, its Communication Director, Mariana Camejo, said to Prensa Latina.

This event (https://wp.me/pLOjm-3jS) is conceived -she added- to analyze the political, legal and media resources that are intertwined in an increasingly complex confrontation.

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