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Carla Valdés León

Carla Valdés León

Inside here, bamboo shines and illuminates

Bambú Centro: a cooperative on the making

You can get to the Bambú Centro walking through Chinatown till you get to Zanja Street. Walk down Rayo Street until you find a wooden door with a sign: "Bambú Centro" which below has another a little bigger with the activities of the month, which can be read: workshop for children, the latest summer activities and "we are in the Cuba Pavilion Fair ". But you can also go up Galiano till Zanja. Being there in the vortex of Havana is essential part of who they are. Carlos Martínez Romero, director of Bambu Centro Project, welcomes us to his studio in an old warehouse in Centro Habana, where bamboo is a huge trunk that occupies most of the space. Therein bamboo shines and illuminates. Also assails the incessant sound of cutting machines deafening roar of the city on Monday at eleven o'clock. It's easy to get lost among the trees, noise, dust and light. "Bambú Centro is a project of craftsmen, artists and professionals attached to the Cultural Goods Fund. My wife, other colleagues and I banded together on this project and beyond what we thought at the beginning, it has become a way of life. We try to unite...