Scheduled for April 10-12, the conference program includes academic presentations, artist roundtables, visual arts exhibitions, live performances and documentary screenings.
Academic experts and contemporary Cuban artists will provide inspiration and knowledge about the intersections of Afro-Cuban arts, cultures and religious traditions, as detailed in the call for the interdisciplinary event that will examine Afro-Cuban expressive cultures since the 1960s of last century.
A poetic follower, and also an admirer, of the National Poet Nicolás Guillén, Morejón has enriched the so-called black poetry, although her work goes further.
This is evidenced by her verses in which she scrutinizes the daily life of her native Havana (August 7, 1944) and the revolutionary process in Cuba, without forgetting in her literary work the fusion of poetry with other arts. In addition to being a poet, Morejón (2001 National Literature Prize) is an essayist, translator and narrator.
Also invited to the conference are the acclaimed pianist and composer of Cuban origin Arturo O’Farrill; Juan Roberto Diago, multimedia artist; Román Díaz, percussionist and composer; Monse Duany, actress, and the photographer René Peña.
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