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• Arts and Culture
• Havana
• 11 / 12 / 2006

At the same time, the Juan Marinello Research and Development Center of the Cuban Culture, received the National Story Award 2006. The opening program of the day also had the presentation of Fernando Rodríguez Sosa, as the delegate of the CIINOE in Cuba, as well as an oral ceremony with the participation of storytellers from Argentina, Cuba and Spain. The event was also presented at the Alejo Carpentier Foundation, where a Round table "Francisco Garzón Céspedes: del sistema modular de creación literaria y artística a la oralidad escénica" (Francisco Garzón Céspedes : from the modular system of literary and artistic creation to the oral scene), was held. On this occasion, two books of this creator were donated to several cultural institutions, in honor of his 60 anniversary that will be next year. As an end of the day, children were able to enjoy of the show "Cuentos con la esperanza del mundo" (Stories with the hope of the world), made by Cuban, Spanish and Argentinean storytellers.

In 1975, the Cuba poet Garzón Céspedes started to renew the old oral art of telling stories and founded a new scenic oral art and his Ibero American movement. Advised from the beginning by Haydée Arteaga, Garzón called this art, several years later, as the scenic oral storyteller, a term, theory and practice that nourished itself from the oral arts, the mass communications and the general laws of the stage. He has also been the first in founding and directing international artistic and theory events of oral storyteller that are today the most important in its genre in several countries.