For the second year arrives in Havana the Ellas Crean Festival, from October 11 to 18, a week during which the female creation reigns again in different areas of the Cuban capital.
This second edition is aimed at achieving greater leverage and significance among participants, so there are many workshops, courses and theoretical meetings, covering topics such as food, catering, architecture, urbanism, gender and society among other areas of creation.
To share their experiences in these areas personalities of Spanish culture arrive in Havana, as the renowned Chef Arguiñano Eva, one of the cooks in the the most famous hospitality family saga in Spanish television; architect Inés Sánchez, who led the first group of Spanish research on gender, urbanism and architecture; Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, journalist and art historian; restorative Johina García-Concheso, who for more than five years has shared her knowledge with members of the Office of the Historian of Havana; visual artist Beatriz Ruibal, and other artists and intellectuals.
On the Cuban side particpate, among others, artists such as Master Zenaida Castro Romeu; poets Reina María Rodríguez and Nancy Morejon; renowned architect Isabel Rigol and actresses Laura de la Uz and Broselianda Hernandez.
Younger generations in the visual arts will be represented by artists Glenda León, Susana Pilar Delahante, Grethell Rasúa, Yaima Carrazana and Analia Amaya, among others.
In addition, they will have lectures on various topics, projecting a retrospective of Cuban filmmakers at the Cinematheque of Cuba, musical concerts and one of women’s poetry in which writers like Marifé Santiago, Marylín Bobes, Soleida Rios and Susana Haug will participate.
The dance will have the Liszt Alfonso Ballet, a Cuban company that cultivates the fusion of flamenco dance with rhythms of the island.
