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There young people think about the art they are making and turn their gaze back to history to save everything that is beautiful and useful. The famous Cuban ethnologist, Miguel Barnet, president of the UNEAC, shared the session with the participants.

Major investments to improve the tourist facilities of Guardalavaca and to expand the capabilities of city hotels will be undertaken in the province of Holguin due to the increasing demand of tourism travel, announced Manuel Marrero, Minister of Tourism in Cuba.

Some one thousand young intellectuals and artists from all continents and Cuban provinces are attending the 15th Romerias de Mayo Festival taking place in Holguin (May 2-8), which will become the preamble of the World Young Artists Festival slated for next year.

Hundreds of Cuban drummers and folklore dancers will begin a marathon rumba (over 300 hours) in Holguin that will extend to the entire country.

Media professionals in theeastern province of Holguin are getting ready for the Eighth Congress of Cuban Journalists to be held June 2008 in the Cuban capital under the slogan, "To know, reflect and inform.”

The eastern province of Holguin has reached the lowest infant mortality rate in its history in the current year with a rate of 1.9 per thousand live births, which rank the province one of the first in the country.

Carlos Zambrano, Turism delegate to the eastern region, said that in the period between November 2007 and March 2008, more than 93,150 visitors, mostly from Canada and England, landed in this part of the country, attracted not only by its beaches but also by the history and culture of the province.

The Spanish artist and designer Javier Mariscal, author of the logo for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, attended this year’s edition of the International low-budget film festival held in Gibara.

An special initiative called ‘Sugar First’ was started today in Holguin, with the purpose of increasing sugar production during the current harvest.

Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás announced the screening in Bilbao, Spain of a group of films that participated in the 6th Low-Budget Film Festival that concluded this past Sunday in the eastern city of Gibara.

There are 4,209 social workers from the Cuban province of Holguin who actually work in the brigades that carry out the implementation of social and economic programs launched by the Cuban Revolution in the Battle of ideas.

"Within 10 years Hollywood will have a commercial failure" said the French -Canadian film critic Herve Fischer during the first theoretical meeting that took place last Wednesday, as part of the activities for 6th edition of the International Film Festival of Gibara.

The jury of the Sixth International ‘No-Budget’ Film Festival, in Gibara, Cuba, will award the Latin American documentary that best expresses the values of small communities and marginalized groups.

There is nothing wrong with wanting a pay increase; many workers have received increases in their monthly wages through systems that encourage greater productivity and efficiency.

The festival was first held in 2001, organized by Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás. This time, 100 works will be in competition in six different categories: fiction, documentary, unpublished script, experimental works, projects in progress and video.