Cuba celebrates today the National Culture Day in frank evocation of the patriotic sentiment that emerges throughout the island and recalls the intonation of the Bayamo Hymn for the first time in 1868.

The Day for the anniversary pays tribute to the 60th anniversary of Words to Intellectuals, the 120th anniversary of the José Martí National Library of Cuba, the bicentennial of the birth of Francisco Vicente Aguilera, and the 100th anniversary of the birth of the poet and essayist, Cintio Vitier.

From eastern Cuba, the Fiesta de la Cubanía and its theoretical event the Crucible of Cuban Nationality celebrate the creation of the song of independence written by Pedro Figueredo through a hundred face-to-face and online activities.

This year, the anniversary takes place amid the gradual reopening of the most representative spaces for the defense of art in the country, which is waging the media war in this area, as well as the siege of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the government of the United States.

Without cultural blackout, the nation managed to maintain the solid development of the policy outlined in that sphere by the Cuban Revolution, despite the health crisis of Covid-19, which confined literary institutions, theater venues or recreational centers to temporary closure and the later move to other digital scenarios.

In that sense, the pandemic was a fact as palpable as the well-earned representation of national artists on social media sites, streaming broadcasts and multiple online exchanges that have preceded the commemoration established by the Council of Ministers in 1980.

Since last October 10, the celebration, identity symbol and expression of national rebellion has taken place, which will have its culminating point this Wednesday when it enhances the ‘feeling of love for the country and the decision to fight, the artistic expression of that cultural act by excellence in which the people affirm and conquer their full identity ‘.