With an event and a cultural gala at Secondary School #52, José Martí, from Ulan Bator, concluded today the Cuban Culture Days. The Ambassador of Cuba in Mongolia, Jorge Ferrer and Mrs. Tsolmon Amgalan, manager of primary education studies, delivered the main words.
The representative of the School highlighted the close relationship of that center with Cuba, for bearing the name of José Martí, as well as the collaboration of Cuba with Mongolia and with the school through a modest program of free university scholarships.
The Cuban Ambassador thanked the organization of the different activities and stressed that the Days of Cuban Culture honors two transcendental events in the struggles for our independence.
He recalled that on October 10, 1868, the Father of the Nation began the first war for independence and that October 20 of that year marked the beginning of Cuban culture, when the National Anthem was sung for the first time in Bayamo.
As a cultural activity, two Cuban-Mongolian students, accompanied by a choir, sang the Guajira Guantanamera song with verses by José Martí. Another group of students of both sexes danced choreographies to the rhythm of Latin music.
During the Conference, an exhibition was set up with some 60 selected drawings, from those made by 100 seventh grade students, allegorical to Cuba as images of landscapes and colonial cities, of José Martí and of our national symbols.
There was also an exhibition of more than 100 essays or compositions by sixth grade students about Cuba, its history and José Martí, in the form of mini-books with illustrations, mostly handmade.
