DEDICATION TO MUSIC

Thousands of symbols cross through the musicians´ minds while they are executing some piece. Several are the theoretical subjects they need to get or at least to approach to excellence in performing. Lieta Molinet García is just 19 years old, but she has the responsibility to settle these knowledge in the future instrumentalists

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By Isabelle

I GIVE MY HEART TO MY STUDENTS

by Yainerys Avila

It was very complicated, but not impossible, to arrive at La Gloria, a community in the mountains of the province of Sancti Spíritus, where Germán Alexis Rodriguez Guerra lives. Last year, he received "Los Zapaticos de Rosa” Award (this prize is given in Cuba to persons or institutions with an outstanding work related to children and youth).

PASSION FOR UNRAVELING THE PAST

The Cuban young archaeologist Yamilé of the Carmen Luguera González is focused in doing research in subaqueous contexts and littorals. She tells us some details about her studies related to the Sánchez Barcaíztegui, a ship that played the lead in one of the most frightening wrecks of the XIX century in Cuba


By Pavel Lopez

HOMOSEXUAL… AND SO WHAT?

By IWC

That was the answer the famous English writer Oscar Wilde read in a public letter during the most well-known trial of the XIX century. The middle-class in Victorian England was scandalized by his behaviour. Wilde, who had maintained an intimate friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, was charged with sodomy by the aristocrat´s father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde was convicted in the trial, held in May 1895, and was sentenced to two years of hard labor.

Prison ruined Wilde material and spiritually. That was a lesson for all those “deviated” that dared to fight publicly, a clear warning so that they remained in the shade in a society that didn´t accept them.

THE SEED OF ITS HISTORY

Leyvis Yero Rodriguez, Yisenia Ochoa Sanchez, Hailier Cobo Cruzata and Ernesto Red Almaguer, are two young girls and two boys from the Cuban municipality of Jesus Menéndez ,who in the 2002, along with other young people from Las Tunas province, started off for the Cuban capital to become General Integral High School Professors in a project that at that time acquired the name of Los Valientes (The Brave ones).

Por Yaíma Puig Meneses

HUGS FROM A LITTLE CUBAN POETESS

By Alicia Centelles

When she was in sixth degree, Raquel Perez Cruz, a girl born in Havana in 1991, wrote several poems and poetic texts that her parents have compiled under the title “”Collection of my hugs”, classified in six parts: Patriotic hug, Green hug, Familiar hug, Loving hug, Special hug and Fantastic hug in a simple prose.

A BLACK CUBAN TEENAGER AND THE OPERA

By Marietta Manso

I think that my future is in the operatic singing, and I know I must to sacrifice to get it, not stay out at nights, take care of my voice and, of course, never to smoke.

These are words of Oscar Castañeda Trujillo, while all the dreams of the world escape through his black eyes.

THE CUBAN SENSE OF THE WORD "SOLIDARITY"

By Luis Marín Lopez

Sometimes there are some words or concepts we used them in our daily language, without reflecting about their meaning or reach.

Have you ever thought what solidarity means and which is its importance? According to the Larousse Dictionary, it is the feeling that impels men to help each other, and it is also the mutual dependency between men that prevent some ones of begin happy, if the others aren´t.

THE PLACE THEY LIKE THE BEST

This is what it means the sports area of San Rafael and Hospital St., for the teenagers who live in Cayo Hueso, a little neighborhood in the center 0f Havana. has become for them.


By Alicia Centelles

Every afternoon, after two o´clock, the corner of San Rafael and Hospital St., in Cayo Hueso, is full of shouts and laughter with the presence of children and teenagers who practice sports in that area of the capital of Cuba.

A FAMOUS CUBAN SINGER IS SURE OF THAT

DON’T THINK STAYING IS AN OPTION

By Fidel Díaz

I ran into Carlos Varela in Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Centre during the memorable celebration of Victor Casaus' sixty birthday. Obviously, I would have preferred, then and now, that he could be singing his songs in the cities of the United States. The fact is that it was really beautiful to have him there, sharing with the elder troubadours, with his pairs, and promoting a group from Bayamo, ormed by very young people and under the name Nubes, influenced by his legacy. Considering the fact that we are what we are, and some many things have been said overseas after the news of his visa denegation to perform in the U. S., so then, I asked him to keep the record of the following questions

CUBAN TEENAGERS TALK ABOUT ADDICTION

By Miriam García Hernández


- Riiiiing, riiiiing!

Another useful day in school is finished. Boys and girls left high school for today to return home. Glad and boisterous, they comment the incidents of the day, make plans. Suddenly, a group stops full of curiosity: very still on the turf of the park, there is a man. Some of the youngsters approach expectantly: