Tanning Bad If Eyes Closed

Our Memory: Second Review Centre Critical

II Echoes of Critical Observatory (2008)
Scenarios and opportunities for cultural development in the XXI century

worth more creative ability (published in kaosenlared)

to stimulate research and cultural criticism, and the promotion of youth forums for the articulation of a critical-revolutionary, are called Critics Observatories.


By: Tamara Roselló Queen

"To exist humanly, is to pronounce the world is transformed" Paulo Freire


XXI Century is our stage of life. He inherited many of the outstanding utopias past and the urgency to mobilize to protect basic rights. The globalization trend is one feature that goes beyond the dominant economies and invades the ideologies and cultures.

problems and questions of today have the same universal character, so the answers we think together, and socialize our alternatives, our symbols, our doubts and hopes. The challenges of globalization can serve us outside, in a world characterized by the penetration of cultural industry and new models of liberal capitalism.

Cuba In 2008, we are not exempt from the heartbreak, despair and uncertainty that immobilizes and uprooted. The belief that politics is a matter solely of politicians, and the "every man for himself" make "law and order", gained momentum with the economic crisis of the 90. Its sequels are in everyday life and in the projection of many young people have grown up under the influence of those patterns. Certain behaviors

individual, group, institutional and social, that have nothing to do with our project of socialist nation, tend to replace the ethical standards we have always prided Cubans. There are traditions, anecdotes, so little remembered, that almost escape our memory and even oral history can rescue them, because they will be buried with the generation of our elders.

Some circles are debating the relevance of new ways to encourage and develop a more active citizen participation in local and institutional level and that the culture of debate and criticism are not an isolated act, informal, sterile. However, it is not starting from scratch. We have an accumulated history that put human beings at the center of the events of the Island that we can not but shake the crossing of arms or set their destinations outside of this land.

Belgian François Houtart conceptualized the new historical subject to be built in the XXI century: "It will be a subject in the full sense of the word, including the subjectivity rediscovered encompassing all human beings, being human and real subject (...) should be able to act on reality has multiple and global in the sense of emergency, as required by the contemporary genocide and ecocide. "[1]

In essence, a social subject acting in correspondence with time living, or the contexts that condition. It will be from an active social practice, which produces the transformation of men and women, to be protagonists of their history, complex, plural, contradictory.

only culture that will allow creation of meaning to make visible to dialogue with other social groups counter-resistance and articulate defense of the project we seek in common. She-culture-shaping our field, but not to establish an elite, who prefer to theorize about reality or predict their future scenarios, rather than experience it.

worth more to the creative capacity in terms of experience, to redefine practices, beliefs, traditions, always from within the processes ... In them, whether spontaneous or planned, are assumed or question forms of participation, identities, representations. It is our most direct contribution to help change all that consciously wrong and appropriating what is worth defending because it singles out, enriches us, makes us grow, back to basics.

One of the notes Gramsci Prison Notebooks warning: "Creating a new culture is not just about making discoveries" original "means also and especially, disseminate critical truths already discovered," socialize "so to speak, and therefore to become stock-based vital elements of coordination and intellectual and moral order. " The community, media, networks, the exercise of dialogue, collective history, personal experiences, discussions, people ... this list can be greater opportunities. We just have to organize more, sharing knowledge, and support us in this beautiful mission to root, to make tangible the social commitment and culture.



Coming together to discuss how to interpret reality from art? What is the role of young Cuban artists in the current context? What scenarios and opportunities can be leveraged for cultural creation? Vanguardia "intellectual or facilitators, mediators in the process of creation?

These are just some of the questions that were posed by members of the Chair Haydee Santamaria Association Hermanos Saiz (AHS). Founded in 2000, declared open the exchange of knowledge, recovery of historical memories, linked to the emancipatory experiences in Cuba and the rest of the world. With watchful eyes closely follow and encourage community transformation projects, led by young and the results of his artistic creation. Mario Castillo
Santana, one of its activists in the capital, said that if anything have been proposed since the Chair is to articulate a space for reflection among young people. They also invite people who are not within the Association, but have an experience to tell, to share. "It is to be found despite the growing number and plurality."

The National Observatory II Review (San Jose, febrero de 2008), Hilda Landrove, quien fuera vicepresidenta de la AHS y hoy integrante del Proyecto Grupo de Estudios Culturales Nuestra América, llamaba la atención sobre la responsabilidad que se asume cada vez que se convoca a un debate en momentos demandantes como los actuales. "Las opciones que tenemos son: la propuesta de la generación del 26 de Julio, que ha resuelto un grupo de problemas y otros nos los ha dejado ahí… o la que viene de Miami. Hay un sector de gente, que está pendientes de todo lo que sale o viene de allá, de la «tierra de la libertad». Ante esas alternativas ¿cómo podemos avanzar hacia el proyecto de nación que urge? A mí me cuesta identificar cuál es mi verdadera responsabilidad, if I stand in the country and the reality I'm living, it is the starting point to build the country we dream. "

The Chair Haydee Santamaria moved shortly sensitive fibers on the relevance or not to create spaces meeting where they discuss young artistic creation, but without losing sight of the context that sustains it. To promote the controversy is not unique, where the culture of debate flirts with the public, and is everywhere, mainly in non- officers. One of his inetgrantes says so "the reality is so overwhelming that you do not need a specific space for discussion. This is done informally. However, sometimes one is looking for a space and instead loses, the one at hand. "

The Association seeks to capitalize on every opportunity, allows the integration and socialization experiences, channeling efforts and pooling talent. To Mario" the problem is to interconnect all that can be created in the most unexpected places right now. "Do not allow a vacuum there, or that invisibilicen individual projects.

professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Havana, called Pañella Daybel to be assessed "in the levels of those that have to be responsible, because they themselves are the owners" to influence from the daily practices in communities projects. Mario insists "we must participate in the discussion of reality, in political debate," to change society.

Test Tube project is a good example that has made young playwrights to write about their daily lives, what happens to them. One of its members, makes the distinction between the ways of appropriating the moment that we live, "some people do it to look for a scholarship, others, however, to achieve a transformation in the place from his speech. One sometimes not have access to the macro, but to micro and then you can do things. ... "
young audiovisual production is also leaving testimony of the day to-day, complex, diverse on the island seems to have among its directors a preference to document reality, but fiction gives them more opportunities for experimentation.

One participant, a graduate of the School of Audiovisual Media ISA seeks possible reasons to explain this behavior. "Certainly, the vision has always been on Cuban society has been triumphant, but we are full of problems, because it was believed that to tell they were going to generate more, rather than solving them. After the movie Strawberry and Chocolate was a "openness" in this regard. It meant a break. Besides the fact remains that the sample of Young Filmmakers and acceptance of any thesis topic, without censorship, students of ISA, we have opened the doors to people who have a critical intent on a problem. "

The Guitiérrez Esneider Holguin, is confident that" when you want to have a clear vision of what was the Cuban society, at least in the 90s, which the press will find a very distorted view, because we have the "document" that will reliably historian like an airplane black box, what happened. That place has come to take literature, plastic arts, video, documentary, drama, arts in general. That is the testimony that will be left of society, such as leaving the TV Serrana eg, responding to the interests of a community. "

These" dead spots "have emerged edges rarely told by the media communication, which were not part of the legitimate representation of Cuba. "What is happening with the audiovisual connects with what happens in the theater and in general in everything. The reality is richer, more problematical and nuanced than what some people he is bringing from his poetic imagination, fictional, "says an aide to the forum.

But would be expected that artists have today? The audiovisual creation clarifies a young filmmaker "is difficult for art to reflect reality objectively, because half the subjectivity of the filmmaker that puts the camera where it is advisable to be more in favor or against a particular issue."

The academy also have served many of those materials that challenge weak side of society. Daybel has the experience of the impact that some have reached in their own right. From it, suggests to "provoke dialogue with the academic director with the Social Sciences. Not everything can be explained from the experience, not from the theories. And connect is important."
It's about being the subject of this reality, not to look at it from a bubble, but to find ways to create and socialize exchange views, experiences and knowledge, articulating initiatives and references, quizzes, projects and practice ...
The Chair Haydee Santamaria, as she did in life, integrating these cultural groups that are motivated with a desire to lead emerging trends and not backward in the Cuban context. There are those who are, or the debate, "although it has been one of its cornerstones," represents an escape valve. Either way, it is the fear of "wasting time" while everyone else is doing alone in place, and even when they are together in the space of debate., because there is so much to do, who always takes a new start.



________________________________________ [1] In the lecture delivered during the V Hemispheric Meeting of Struggle against the FTAA, (Havana, 13 to April 15, 2006)

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Our Memory: Second Monitoring Critical

Critical Section Hermanos Saiz Association Research

II Observatory 2008

critical "scenarios and opportunities for cultural development in the XXI century Cuba"


ORGANIZERS:

Address AHS, Havana Province. Haydee Santamaria
Chair of the AHS.

SPONSORS EVENT: National AHS

.
Provincial Culture, Havana Province.

Date: 5, 6 and 7 February 2008.

Location: Home of the Young Creator and Youth Club of Computing (San Jose de las Lajas)

Grounds:

critical sections and Research of Two Havanas AHS, from the positive experiences of the previous edition , intends to make the 2nd National Meeting of Criticism and Socio-Cultural Research "Critical Observatory." Motivated by the need to promote socio-cultural research, the practice of art and literary criticism, and to promote among young people spaces for the articulation of a critical, revolutionary and informed, which is to meet the challenges of our time. Cultural criticism possible a reflection on the symbolic content and meaning of the work of our creative and articulate the experiences of these. This event is taxed at the strength of the work of a section of our Organization, in which the majority of its members have no meeting space, encouragement and sharing of what is produced by these sections in the country, promoting the creation of similar sections in those territories

Objectives:

 Promote artistic and literary criticism, research socio - cultural and community transformation projects featuring youth;
 Provide creative Cuban youth, and in particular the emerging youth culture, a new space of self - expression, reflection, debate and critical dialogue combines conceptual rigor with an open mind and brotherly
 Ensure the establishment of stable links between youth development and community transformation projects, so that the critical task of reversing the country's social praxis;
 Promote among young artists, researchers socio - cultural, essayists, journalists, art critics and literature, social science and humanities, community project managers, promoters of culture, journalists, writers, artists - an encounter systematic cross-cutting, in terms of territories, knowledge and socio - cultural practices represented;
 Promote the work of these young artists, research on emerging cultures, and civic leadership in community transformation;
 To contribute to the theoretical and aesthetic community cultural operators, new generations, and all stakeholders;
 Creating horizontal links between projects partner - Cultural matters, in different parts of the country;
 Generate a national network of projects, research and exchanges, which can operate with a permanent, sustainable and productive. Projects and Centers

participants

1 - Project Chair Haydee Santamaria. (Ciudad Habana)
2 - Draft Americas (Havana)
3 - OMNI-Free Zone Project (Ciudad Habana)
4 - Draft Environmental Psychology (Ciudad Habana)
5 - Radio Bemba Project (Ciudad Habana)
6 - Project Workshop Bolshevik Revolution. (Ciudad Habana)
7 - Project In-black (Palma Soriano)
8 - Draft Thinking Chair, AHS Holguín.
9 - Project Synopsis
10 - Center Criteria. (Ciudad Habana)
11 - Antonio Gramsci, Juan Marinello Center (Havana City)
12 - Red mediation and conciliation, Centro Félix Varela. (Ciudad Habana)
Total Participants: 60

Event Program "Critical II Observatory." ACTIONS






Opening Remarks Presentation and discussion of videos of young filmmakers
:
"De-generation (Kastalia Productions,
Cuba)
" Building "(Draft Synopsis, Chile)
"The hunters" (
Culture Movement against CAFTA, Costa Rica)

Presentation Space (Projects and Artists)

Tuesday, 5 February I

Open Forum "Towards a map of circumstance: the
sociocultural contexts of creation. " Open Forum II

Thinking creative crossroads
Theatre, Music, Literature, Visual Arts, Audiovisual
Critica.

Permanent Forum on Constitution Review and Research


Dinner
Film Film "The Lives of Others"



Wednesday 6

Projects Workshop February Socio-cultural trajectories and challenges

- presentation of experiences
-
socialization tools - identifying alliances

In-conclusion of the Event: Final Document and Monitoring Proposal
2009. Retozo

critical (final festive activity)

Where Do Brownie Gs Cookie Patches Go

Our Memory: First Monitoring Critical



Critical Observatory San Jose de las Lajas: 6 to 9 April 2006

Event Locations: Casa del Joven
Creator  
National Agrarian University Havana


The Chair Haydee Santamaria, a project of the AHS Havana province, led by a group of young artists in various manifestations of culture and thought, seeking to develop a National Meeting of Criticism and Socio - Cultural. Motivated by the need to promote socio-cultural research, the practice of art and literary criticism, and to promote among youth spaces for the articulation of a critical, revolutionary and informed, which is to meet the challenges of our time we believe essential to make a yearly meetings like this. On the other hand, gives it a more solid content to the work of a section of our Organization, the majority of its members lack meeting space, encouragement and sharing of what is produced by these sections in the country.
In this context, the Chair Haydee Santamaria is a rarity: 5 events, workshops in the past 2 years, three members who were taken in the event mentions Memory Our (Holguín), a test Pinos Nuevos award a prize ( above) of the Centro Juan Marinello "to the best research of the year, two members recognized with the annual scholarship AHS creation and sustained existence of a group of peers, with several publications in the press (Themes, Catauro Gazette de Cuba, La Jiribilla), more than 15 theses grade and tutored course work, Master's thesis defended and in the process, compilations and forewords of books, contributions to collective works, and multiple collaborations in diverse undergraduate and graduate disciplines taught at the university, including the program municipalization. In addition, several of our colleagues are featured in various creative projects, socio - cultural and community. Taking into account our results of work, not as an element of self-promotion, but as an articulation factor for collective work, we propose the realization of this meeting, which we believe relevant to do between 6 and 9 April next.

Objectives:
 To promote artistic and literary criticism, research, socio - cultural and community transformation projects featuring youth;
 Provide creative Cuban youth, and in particular the emerging youth culture, a new space of self - expression, reflection, debate and critical dialogue that combines conceptual rigor with an open mind and brotherly
 Ensure the establishment of stable links between youth development and community transformation projects, so that the critical work can reverse the country's social praxis;
 Promote among young artists, researchers socio - cultural, essayists, journalists, critics of art and literature, social science and humanities, community project managers, promoters of culture, journalists, writers, artists - a systematic encounter with a transverse As for territories, knowledge and socio - cultural practices represented;
 To promote the work of these young artists, research on emerging cultures, and civic leadership in community transformation;
 To contribute to the theoretical and aesthetic training for operators cultural community, the new generations and all stakeholders;
 create horizontal links between projects socio - cultural matters, in different parts of the country;
 Generate a national network of projects, research and exchanges, which can operate with a permanent, sustainable and productive.
to hold the event did a call in the provinces where we had contacts and collaboration, and we hope that participants attend at least 5 provinces. Sponsor and organizer

Home:
• AHS Havana Chair Haydee Santamaria

  Provincial House of the Young Creator (San José de las Lajas)

Possible co - sponsors:
• Agrarian University of Havana
• Project Esquife;
• Project Will;
• Provincial Center for Books and Literature at Havana. Projects

guests: Will
(Sagua de Tánamo)
Esquife (Havana)
South Bridge (Melena del Sur)
IN BLACK (Palma Soriano)
G1-2K (Santiago de Cuba)
Amauta (Santiago de Cuba)
"KONIEC? (Sancti Spiritus and Havana) Red
Proposals (Havana)
SINTESYS (Chile)
Casa Paulo Freire (Beach)

Magazines socio - cultural to present at the Event:
  The Bearded Cayman
Habáname
Gaceta de Cuba
   Esquife
Daedalus

 Movement  
Coffee JarRock
Criteria   Roads
Catauro

Activities:

Friday 6 April.

Morning Session (10:00 am): Welcome

. Samuel Fonseca and Mario Castillo. Discussion Board
# 1. Critical engagement, community, spirituality and alternatives.
- Armando Chaguaceda. Critical thinking and Cuba in 2006.
- Alicia M. Regrets. Approach to the project ON BLACK, Palma Soriano.
- Paul Rigal. OMNI approach to design - ZONA FRANCA, Alamar.
DEBATE (30 min.)
- Presentation of books and magazines (Editorial Arte y Literatura, Chair Haydee Santamaria)

Afternoon Session (1:30 pm):

Discussion Board # 2. Historical memories, critical perspectives and contemporary cultural and political debates.
- Miriam Herrera. The fictional reconstruction of the nation in three texts of contemporary Cuban history.
- Dmitri Prieto. "Constitutionalism ratings? Legal identity of Afro-conspirators in the early nineteenth century Cuba.
- Mario Castillo. The guts of Mambi. Motivational universes, loyalties and ideologies (a critical evaluation of Cuban historiography of the wars of independence).
- Ramón García. Orality and writing in the popular classes during the Cuban revolution.
- Fernando Martínez Martí. Nick and Marti Marti Fusion ideology with Marxist-Leninist theories in the thinking of Julio A. Mella
DEBATE (40 min.)

Saturday 7 April.

Morning Session (10:00 am):

Panel Discussion # 3. What is meant by popular culture?
- Tato Quiñones. Requiem for the carnival in Havana. Life, love and death "?
- Yeniela Cedeño. The solar habanero: stereotypes and realities in the republic.
- Mario Castillo. Popular subject, urban destruction and social ownership. Tensions between discipline and emancipation.
DEBATE (20 min.)
- Diamelis Gutiérrez. Popular culture and Reggaetón: a view from Sancti Spiritus.
- Isnay Rodríguez. For a work management system institutions, hip hop movement.
- Alexandrine Boudreault. Reggaeton: Institutions and marginality in Santiago de Cuba.
- Yanelis Martínez. The English hip hop and Cuban popular speech.
DEBATE (20 min.)
- Presentation of trialists Social Sciences who were awarded in 2005 and 2006 (Hiram Hernandez and Julio C. Guanche).

Afternoon Session (UNAH, 2:00):

Teleconference. Paradigm Science - Art. Leonardo Lavanderos (Chile).
Panel Discussion # 4. Self-management, communication and community experiences.
- Real Odemis and Angel Gabriel Carranza. Local history based on the formation of values.
- Rodolfo Rensoli. Dynamic urban alternatives.
- Sebastian Meneses. Community dynamics and health management in three slums of Santiago de Chile.
- Eric Porma. Autorepresentaciones, organization of the Mapuche in Chile and cultural conflict.
DEBATE (20 min.)
- Pavel German. A balance of indigenous issues in the Andean countries.
- Fyodor Rodríguez. The dark Sendero Luminoso. The critique of modern rationality through the reconciliation process in rural communities of Ayacucho, Peru.
- Claudio Estevez. Self-representation of poverty and marginalization in a squatter settlement of La Habana.
DEBATE (20 min.)

Sunday 8 April.

Morning Session (10:00 am):

Panel Discussion # 5. Art, communication and creation on the ecology of everyday life.
- Alexander Correa. Television Serrana: An experience of community television in Cuba.
-Odemis Royal and Angel Gabriel Carranza. The incorporation of energy and environmental culture to technical and vocational education.
- Wallmary Chabelly Pérez Rubiera. Anarchy and Ecology. An approach to the significance of the work of Murray Bockchin.
-Dmitri Prieto. Lezama and Castoriadis, autonomy and infinite possibility: in search of an imaginary political / poetic release.
DEBATE (20 min)
-Oscar Lorenzo Páez. The visual arts in the prevention of HIV in the school students of art teachers.
- Aldo Way. AnarkoPunk. Communicate ideology.
- Rainer Palacio. Graffiti in Santiago de Cuba.
-Andrés Mir. The imagen de Martí en las artes visuales.
DEBATE (20 min)


Sesión de la tarde (2:00 pm):

Mesa de Debate #6. Geopolíticas y escenarios de futuros.
- Antón Vélez Bichkov. ¿Son rusos los muñequitos?
- Julio Tang. China. Un mirada al interior de un paradigma internacional
- Rafael Grillo. Las nuevas tecnologías y el debate sobre el ser humano: el posthumanismo.
- Ramón García. Cuba 2036.
DEBATE (20 min)
- Presentación de libros y revistas (Cátedra Haydée Santamaría; AHS La Habana).

Foro de proyectos.
- Voluntad (Sagua de Tánamo).
- Puente Sur (Melena del Sur).
- KONIEC? (Sancti Spiritus / Havana).
- Casa Pablo Freire (Beach / Marianao).
- G1 2k (Santiago de Cuba).
- Esquife (Havana).
- Chair Haydee Santamaria (Havana).

Report of the Rapporteur. Yeniela Cedeño. Call the Centre Critical
2007. Dmitri Prieto.
words of congratulations. Miriam and Samuel Herrera Fonseca. Books


to file (must negotiate the sale of securities in the event, the presentations should pay according to Resolution 35 and 1 of MINCULT):

Santana Castillo, Mario Herrera Jerez, Miriam. Memory to public life. Research Center and Development of Cuban Culture Juan Marinello, Havana, 2002.
Acanda, Jorge Luis. Civil society and hegemony. Research and Development of Cuban Culture Juan Marinello, Havana, 2002. Churches
Utset, Marial. Metaphors of change in everyday life: 1898-1902 UNION Cuba, Havana, 2003. Maybe
Ricardo Moreno. The story in reverse: history, nationalism and power in Cuba (1902-1930). Unicorn, San Antonio de los Baños, 2003.
Triana Gómez, Jaime. Theatre and obstacle. Unicorn, San Antonio de los Baños, 2004. Chaguaceda
Noriega, Armando (ed.). History of Political Thought. Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, 2005. Coderch
Days, and Chaguaceda Gabriel Noriega, Armando (eds.). Culture, faith and solidarity: against neoliberalism emancipatory perspectives. Félix Varela, La Habana, 2005.
Britto García, Luis. The counter-empire: from Rock to postmodernity. Arte y Literatura, La Habana, 2005.
Hernández Castro, Hiram. Power - Learn: towards a political science of liberation. Social Sciences, Havana, 2006. Chaguaceda
Noriega, Armando (ed.). Cuba without dogma or dropouts. Social Sciences, Havana, 2006.
Aguiar, Raul and Yoss (eds.). Written with guitar. UNION, La Habana, 2006.
Lavanderos, Leonardo & Malpartida, Alejandro. Cognition and territoriality. SINTESYS, Santiago de Chile, 2000.
Alamar Express (book + CD). Enfori Productions, La Habana, 2005. Titles
Felix Varela Center, Martin Luther King Jr. and Fray Bartolome de las Casas

NB: The last 3 items will be provided by the Chair Haydee Santamaria, by prior agreement with the respective institutions (SINTESYS, OMNI-ZF, CFV , CMMLK and CFBC), the other books must be purchased through the Provincial Center of Books and Literature. Proposal

guest speakers (talk up to 30 minutes with 20 more to debate, they should pay according to Resolution 35 and 1 of MINCULT):
• Ricardo Quiza (Narrating story)
• Fernando Martinez (Cuban Thought during the Revolution)
• Marial Iglesias (The myth of Martí)
• Andrés Mir (Martí in the art)
• Desiderio Navarro (contemporary thinking about culture)
• Esther Pérez (Education popular)
• Jorge Luis Acanda (contemporary critical thought)

Teleconference (via internet or recorded video + chat-needed data show):
• Leonardo Lavanderos (Chile: NGOs SINTESYS Art - Science)

Press invited:
• Esquife (public memories of the event)
• The Bearded Cayman

• Daedalus • • Extramuros

Habaname • El Habanero
• Radio stations, the Havana provinces
• A "way" (Metro Radio)
• Telemar (Santa Cruz del Norte)


Organizing Committee General Coordinators Samuel, Mario, Dmitri
alternates and PR Coordinators: Dayamí, Armando, Pavel
Logistics: Staff of the House of the Young Creator, Polina and 2 members of the Chair and Rapporteur
scientific program: Chair Haydee Santamaria
Cultural Programme: Home
the Young Creator Participants by provinces


Collective "Haydee Santamaría" (La Habana and Ciudad de La Habana):
1. 75011724804 Mario Santana Gonzalo Castillo (Havana City)
2. 73090109407 Hiram Hernandez Castro (Havana City)
3. Simon Eddy Carlos Forcade 80042327400 (Alquízar)
4. 74060520127 Feodor Mancebo Rodríguez (Guanajay)
5. Maribel Rivero Socarrás 76051204990 (Havana City)
6. 80042204775 Vicarte Ana Luisa Castillo (Havana City)
7. 72121924141 Prieto Dmitri Samsonov (Sta. Cruz del Norte)
8. Ramón García Guerra 60020529462 (C. Habana: Casa Paulo Freire)
9. Gay Cardeaux 75052127207 Edhel Angel (C. Havana)
10. Armando Noriega Chaguaceda 75111903881 (C. Habana: Red Proposed)
11. Tato Quiñones (Serafin Quiñones Tiant) 42080508562 (Havana City)
12. Miriam Herrera Jerez 75051504375 (San Jose de las Lajas: Community ICA)
13. 75102926628 Mezquia Claudio Ramón Estévez (Havana City)
14. Julio Tang 75061624169 (Havana City)
15. Jorge Luis German 72052303149 (Havana City)
16. Karel Negrete 82021409025 (Havana City)
17. Pavel German Benitez 74122602986 (Havana City)
18. Alexander Correa Iglesias 79110506747 (Havana City)
19. 77021207098 Daniellis Calderón Hernández (Havana City and EICTV)
20. Cedeño Yeniela Hechavarría 78031310656 (C. Habana) Havana Province

:
21. 76120128950 Shviétsova Polina Martinez (Santa Cruz del Norte: KONIEC?)
22. Hiram Sanchez Ribot 7203240115 (Camilo Cienfuegos: Hershey)
23. Jaime Gomez Triana (San Jose de las Lajas)
24. Yovany Lazaro Enriquez (Melena del Sur: South Bridge)
25. Maybe Ricardo Moreno (San Jose de las Lajas)

Havana:
26. Andrés Mir (Fernando Salcines Sin) 66111219267 (Esquife)
27. Hanna G. Chomenko (Ania González González) 73032901251 (Esquife)
28. Salcines Ismael Gonzalez 010 910 67 222 (Esquife)
29. Rubiera Chabelly 84071007936 (UH)
30. LeMay Entensa 76081401904 (UH)
31. 83120530417 Yohayna Hernandez (UH)
32. 84071703299 Wallmary Perez (UH)
33. Yanelis Martinez 83060632876 (UH)
34. 78061206918 Sutrayel Hawk (UH)
35. Frank Bello garrote 85030509229 (UH)
36. Fernando Martinez Martí 81060304124 (UH)
37. Aldo Morales Path 79051304789 (UH)
38. 84112606978 Addiley Palancar War (UH)
39. Celia Maria Báez Segurola 84042029210 (UH)
40. Maylene González Mirabal 8501110411 (UH: trainee Matanzas)
41. Yohannes 85060410094 Rodrigues Torres (UH: trainee Matanzas)
42. Erasmo Calzadilla 75032423829
43. Rodolfo Rensoli 66061301403
44. Igor Capote Omelchenko 68082800800 (Koniec ¿?)
45. Antonio Velez Bichkov 80071467782 (Koniec ¿?)
46. Yoss (José Miguel Gómez Sánchez) (Koniec? Written with guitar)
47. Raúl Aguiar (Written with guitar)
48. Rafael Grillo
49. Gabriel Caparo

Sancti Spiritus:
50. Lazarus Elizardo Peres Castilho 74072331542 (Sancti Spiritus: Koniec?)
51. Melvis González Acosta (Sancti Spiritus: Koniec?)
52. 79091513331 Diamela Melendrez (Sancti Spiritus: Koniec?)
53. Atner scaffold 71021802381 (Trinidad)

Holguín:
54. Hernández Merino Leufrido 73122604549 (Naranjo Agrio: Will)

Guantánamo:
55. Karina Rodríguez Fernández 72072016055 (Guantanamo)

Granma:
56. Sebastian Meneses [Chile] 78031742201 (Manzanillo)
57. Erick Porma [Chile] 82020736827 (Manzanillo)

Santiago de Cuba:
58. Antonio del Castillo Rabilero Demián 72083012242 (Santiago de Cuba)
59. 77012824540 Tissert Herson Pérez (Santiago de Cuba: G1-2K)
60. 74040410807 Jardinez Julio Cesar Jimenez (Santiago de Cuba: G1-2K)
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Our Memory: A Tribute in La Ceiba 01/01/2008


be revolutionary without permission.

"50 years ago the residents of the neighborhoods of La Ceiba and Puentes Grandes, penny penny by a public authority, erected in the park of La Ceiba, also known as the Martyrs, the obelisk which perpetuates the memory of the 8 men living in these neighborhoods, who died in the assault on the Moncada barracks restore (...) , try to restore the sense of patriotism and encourage popular gesture, is now a duty to the memory of our ancestors and to our own future (...)"

With these words the group of the Chair Haydee Santamaria was proposed involved in the recovery of a site in honor and remembrance of a group of heroes come out of the hearts of the people: workers, barbers, pharmacists, tailors, to combat Batista dictatorship and imperialist domination in Cuba in mid-twentieth century. Demonstrating

with concrete actions to perform an act of remembrance popular and revolutionary no "need permission", but to invite and fraternal cooperation without vertical among all stakeholders, there were the president of the Association of Combatants of the Revolution area, the National President of the Asociación Hermanos Saiz Luis Morlote, community historian, poet barber, a neighbor.

In this cultural activity began to clean up the obelisk and the site around, in addition to singing the national anthem and naturally became a dialogue on steps that were fifty years ago to erect the memorial, the remembrance of the heroes represented, former residents of the neighborhood, and the inevitable reflection on the actual causes of deterioration and neglect, not only the obelisk but throughout the park, by the community that lives around. Three facts

our attention arising from this fact: the low participation of residents in the activity, although we did several dozen written invitations to pay homage to a site that should be the heritage of the community. The marked deterioration in the entire area where the monument is located. A park today with most banks demolished, the area near devastated children and the monument to Jose Marti in visible state of disrepair and, finally, the proposal announced by one of the assistants to the action of "raising the levels of government responsible for this case" the restoration of this site, "taking that is the only monument in Havana dedicated to the martyrs of Moncada. "

A link organic links these three seemingly unrelated events: the substitution of popular organizational capacity to manage their interests, some government agencies, if However, in the best, work for the people, in the end, it supersedes and prevents it from being the hero of his life in the community. So, what happens beyond the domestic walls becomes a matter that "must be raised," becoming a site that was the work of community action in a scene deteriorated to deposit garbage and sell, in the shadow of what remains , rum in bulk. A symbol of the winds that are

everyday Connect with the transcendent, the local and global, popular with the national, cultured with street was intended to encourage us for the Chair to make this Haydee Santamaria insanity (someone commented that we should look externally Jehovah's Witnesses or something) that is part of a string of crazy bulky and series that have, among others, from the tribute to Aracelio Iglesias, a symposium on the legacy of the October Revolution or the remembrance of the heroes who died trying to rescue nanigos at 8 medical students.

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Our Memory: Other legacies of October (2005)






The other legacies of October.
"The current is not present, now is acting as"

think the legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917 in the XXI century, after almost absolute hegemony of statist imaginary within the left, and the trivialization of the very idea of \u200b\u200brevolution in rights and in daily life involves jump-start a critical memory. A knowledge of combat that selects and articulates these fragments and truncated potential, now converted into "past" for a collective tradition, where the current standard appears unique perspective.

Emancipation is a present time thereafter, returned to life by our desire not to live in a chronology of oppression. Thinking about the Russian Revolution as a single event but as an inheritance and appropriations tissue leads us to think of it as a document of culture, without forgetting that he was also of barbarism (Benjamin Walter dixit).

We call this a meeting with the hope that the Cuban thought in particular and emancipation in general has overtaken their sensitivity to an unavoidable reference of modernity, caught in the theory and revolutionary practice, as shining at the moment of danger.


Discussion Board # 1. October 1917: left, critical alternatives.
Coyoacán • The flag flies over Cuba. Celia Hart.
• Revolution and anarchism in the Ukraine. Mario Castillo.
• Other: exclusions and pretermission in the traditions of the (s) left (s) American (s). Pavel German.
• Responsibility as an alternative. Fyodor Rodríguez.
• October: Revolution and model. Hiram Hernandez.
• Theories of the "New Class." Dmitri Prieto.

Discussion Board # 2. Realities of "real socialism."
• Lenin and cooperatives. Mario Castillo.
• The ideological absolutism "Marxist-Leninist." Dolores Vila.
• Soviet Cinema. Maylín Machado.
• Karel, Kuba, kitch & Kundera. Orlando L. Pardo. • Homo Sovieticus
: the dark side of utopia. Dmitri Samsonov.
• What market or self? Jorge L. German. • Sub-
and ex-socialist alternative. Johanna Abel.
• Socialism is beyond capitalism. Ariel Dacal.

Discussion Board # 3. October legacies in Cuba.
• Cuba, escorted with daggers. Tato Quiñones.
• Cuban economic Controversies: 1963-1965. Julio C. Guanche.
• Cuba: models of socialist economies. Armando Chaguaceda.
• Avatars of a poetry anthology. Desiderio Navarro.
• What the Russians left. Yoss.

Date: Saturday 12 March. Time: 9:00 am. - 4:30 pm.
Place: UNEAC, 17 and M, Vedado, Ciudad de La Habana.

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"cultural projects as opportunities for participatory innovation in Cuba today: the experience of the Thinking Chair Critical and Emerging Cultures Haydee Santamaria (KHS). "

Chaguaceda

Armando Noriega

Introduction.

This work is a thematic approach to the existing socio-cultural projects in public space in today's Cuba. In this context, which allows for the symbolic dimension of citizenship, are produced and circulated collective representations and discourses of various subjects. Experiences stand as sui generis public schools, if we assume this as a set of legal practices, symbolic and associations through which they define the criteria for inclusion and exclusion within each particular society and membership in a given political community.

These spaces operate from their dissimilar levels of visibility, advocacy and formalization citizenize elements because (even without being explicit) activated from below demands for autonomy of different subjects, and pressed the existing institutional frameworks to extend the rights of different "minorities" and emerging identities "or the whole society. We study the case of the Chair of Critical Thinking and Emerging Cultures Haydee Santamaria, a project sponsored by the Review and Investigation section of the Hermanos Saiz Association in Havana province (capital's periphery) of the Republic of Cuba. The theoretical framework, based on the general notion of political projects articulates the result of the author's earlier work on participation, citizenship studies in Cuba and research on processes of artistic public spheres. Use the document analysis, participant observation and interviews with experts. Recalls the author's experience for nearly 10 years of companionship and belonging to the processes addressed.

Analytical Foundations

Over the past decade several authors have developed an effort to characterize the expansion of participatory practices and ideas promoted by actors located essentially within the broad and diverse Latin American left. With roots in unchecked movements of the statist policies of socialism or social democracy classic, these processes are grouped into so-called participatory democracy project, analytical platform that reminds us of the existence of alternative forms of public policy, while aware of combined processes of public preference for democratic regimes and questioning about specific performances at regional level.

This project of participatory democracy (...) is not a coherent and homogeneous and / or a set of practices and institutions defined, but a collection of principles, guidelines, practices and institutions that has been an experimental level developed through social struggles in various countries of Latin America. " Expressions that this takes varies from country to country, and as the relationship with the social environment and cultural matrices taxed to the internal heterogeneity of the same, spatially and temporally delimit and limit their cultural impact, in addition to suffering Therefore the constraints of neoliberal policies, how the most recent neo-populist positions of different ideological persuasions.

From this background, and confirming the presence of multiple conditions in each territorial or sectoral context, I proposed the study of experiences that make up this project how frames participatory (collective and institutional forms several) that may relate to other similar authorities in participatory networks, interactive processes that run through overlap, integration or surgery. Networks and frames would channel the participatory respective cultures, complex ideas, values \u200b\u200band beliefs recreated on the participation by each social actor in its wide diversity. Have structures or set of organizational spaces more or less formalized and regulated body where they take various forms (direct, delegate, activism, etc.) to participate. Developing a dynamic and participatory, action sets streamed through which participation unfolds.

This participation and citizenship does not exist in the abstract. Have contained class, identity, territorial, cultural, etc. The identification of class relations framed the fight sociopolitical (and participation in it) within a specific context, we provides objective content to identify those large collective actors linked to economic and political spheres. But often blurs the way these conditions are experienced and processed by private individuals, defining alternative strategies within large communities.

The processes analyzed in this study identifies, sociologically and ideologically, with the constraints and demands of a popular subject. The popular notion encompasses a range of sectors and social classes that suffer from social inequalities are likely to be organically integrated into a draft revolutionary changes, but also are by their basic level of organization and autonomy, to be co-opted by the market and the state. As the historian Mario Castillo "(...) what is popular but is still a daily political process, comprising a dissimilar set of livelihood strategies and negotiations, which are born forms of" struggle "more selfish and anti-Community, and new social meanings, new ways of life Redifer, popular knowledge, which condenses the creative activity of people. "

We recognize that in Cuba, in the absence of a dominant capitalist bloc and the presence of substantial social rates and relatively bounded inequality, the popular subject involves a wide diversity of cultural references, regional, ethnic, and obviously, ideological, that difference in peoples' expectations and Latin American projects, and articulate complex relationship (including forms of cooperation, support, subordination, and dissent) with a bureaucracy that controls national politics and economy. The popular challenges are on the one hand, the citizenship status of the socialist system, without ceasing to see their actions and expectations, conditioned by their belonging to an underdeveloped nation. And not everything is popular emancipatory or subjects identified with horizons of change that emphasize popular empowerment belong, sociologically speaking, the social substrate.

In addition to the reference class is relevant to the analysis incorporating the concept of sociality, which expresses the different ways that subjects in their everyday relationships reciprocal and intertwined their actions in a permanent field of possible intersubjective relations, which are constantly being reinterpreted and transformed in their daily development. This concept demonstrates how each company is incorporating emerging relationships, and how the struggle of these new identities for recognition within institutions is changing the system of norms, values \u200b\u200band principles that make society function. And notice how these "(...) are incorporated into the emerging social system itself (accepted and tolerated) by relaxing at the same (...) if we look at this political dimension that involves new social practices, never understand how they fail , transform or they become new models of social action. "

The national context, spaces and emerging actors.

From the theoretical exposure discuss our object of study, recognizing that every stage and national political culture are, per se, heterogeneous, which coexist within it various models of guidance, one of which becomes dominant and defines the general logic of the social order. In the post-1959 Cuba emerged as a central vision of citizen-activist model, which identifies and nation state level, tends to unanimity as an expression of criteria, and mobilized participation rate. With a public service concerning matrix Republican activist citizenship emphasizes the positive popular redistribution of wealth, social rejection and exclusion bias gender and race.

However despite the deployment of emerging creativity and enthusiasm of the revolutionary triumph, the gradual institutionalization of the political regime (and rituals) has been gaining momentum during these 50 years to the detriment of more autonomous participation. This contributes to how, in all societies that harbor a strong and centralized state power, will decrease the levels of social trust in general capable of becoming a citizen action. Scholars of collective action refer to "What hinders the formation of larger companies in those societies with low confidence, is that the trust remains in the limits of family and kinship relations and does not extend to society as a whole. "It is important to recognize that" (...) the formal laws or characteristics of a political system in the broad sense, can encourage or discourage the efforts of individuals to voluntarily resolve their problems of collective action. Although no authoritarian regime can disappear completely the will of a people or their ability to self-organization to address everyday problems, a system which does not explicitly allow or even encourage such activities is a big difference to the fate of self-governance "

Despite these barriers, and along with the traditional view of citizenship militant, has been emerging, slowly and in some areas, a different subject, that advocates values \u200b\u200bsuch as autonomy (collective definition of guiding principles and rules of operation), self (self-generation and sustainable with minimal resources for projects) and solidarity (interaction based on relationships designed to reciprocity, symmetry and individual achievement within the common good). These principles would account, respectively, of the edges political, economic and social development of each specific frame, and are in constant readjustment to changing demands of participants and environmental constraints or opportunities.

I pause to clarify a confusion fostered by the traditional discourse and reproduction in everyday life. Solidarities emerging alternatives differ from the values \u200b\u200bpromoted by the institutions that seeks to frame major tasks in national body for the state specific initiatives (eg, associations, churches, communities and artists with the cyclones in 2008), even if these exceed the coordination and input centralized state. Also unlike state aid offered to other nations, whose design and implementation (in addition to its correctness and presumably guarantee citizen) has been absent the sanction of the popular will, which has led to depoliticize the public purposes, affecting a founding value of Cuban socialism and internationalism.

declared above, is remarkable as cultural (and more specifically art) has become a transcendent dimension in which ordinary Cubans presents and evaluates various socio-political alternatives, rethinks the basic values \u200b\u200bof the Revolution and restates its visions of the future, where artists and public face and collaborate with government actors in the incorporation of critical speech in national political culture and the official discourse. In this regard, as in previous experiences in Latin America and Eastern Europe, the confrontation between artists and staff takes place within institutions and both sides use common reference points as the demand for the nation, a popular and alternative to liberal democracy.

With greater visibility over the past decade appear cultural intermediaries (prominent intellectuals, often members of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, the Union of Journalists of Cuba, the Hermanos Saiz Association and the Communist Party ) able to mediate between state institutions and transnational agencies on the one hand, and producers and consumers of Cuban culture on the other. They have great ability to identify, seize and absorb critical discourses and practices of foreign and subordinates, inserting them into the institutional agencies, which collaterally allows this attempt a reconstruction of the eroded state-centered hegemony during the crisis.

At the same time as the State witness, who must simultaneously meet demands arising from insertion into a global order and those of the population, developing public policy (and rhetoric) that combine pragmatism and tradition. This is a partial reformulation of governance scheme which seeks to preserve its role of monitoring and demarcation of the areas of production, reception and domestic cultural diffusion. As commitment to the development of strategies that combine accommodation, negotiation and collaboration with a range of state actors.

You never spelled out "new cultural politics" was organized from the 90s, personified by the management of the Minister of Culture Abel Prieto. At its heart the deployment of new active and selective ways to incorporate diversity and cultural criticism (Light potential counter-hegemonic) allowed monitoring and reintegrate them within a framework dominated by the state. In addition to possible activation of artistic public spheres.

As a space of cultural struggle and critical public spheres of art in Cuba are generally linked to actors, discourses and forms of cultural expression that transcend national boundaries. They are recognized as "(...) sites of interaction and discussion Among Ordinary Citizens generated throug the half of art and popular culture. (...) Spaces of interaction critical Which Are Both Institutions and shaped by state, local relations of production, and global market forces. "The relationship (historically redefined) of those with state institutions, access and exposure to various types of transnational networks, and their degree of participation in the mainstream of national cultural life are factors that influence the nature of the spheres public art and its potential for critical debate and intervention.

An important background of the current critical art artistic public spheres channel is located in the arrival of Volume One group, with its exhibition opened June 14, 1981 International Art Center in Havana. Since then and for the rest of the decade of 80 plastic arts took the critical role that is currently expanding into areas of literature, the young film, music and theater, in contrast to the monotonous melody of most of the media, expressing the metaphor (sometimes, not both) the problems of intellectuals and, in general, of citizenship. In another direction experiences as the project from a Pedagogical Pragmatics (Instituto Superior de Arte, 1989) sought to develop new teaching methods emancipation, where the student teacher colleague devine, with clear similarities to the popular education approach and distancing of the traditional authoritarian vertical educational model national. Finally it should be noted the effort, focusing the field of thought, the Paideia Group, unfortunately truncated by internal dissension and institutional censorship.

The culmination of this cultural accumulation, the 90 saw a small numerical expansion of artistic public areas on the periphery of mainstream Cuban cultural life, with groups that become sort of "cultural microministerios" capable to disseminate "art on their own." However, the fact that not all experiences have a status (formal recognition and action margins) identical. One of the most famous (rap) has been criticizing claims as claims (hence political) to the State given the combination of marginal status, a popular nature (inherent to the speech of a Revolution "of the poor, by the poor and the poor "), connection and support transnational and low institutionalization. Furthermore, with strong movement base in suburbs such as Alamo (Habana del Este) with popular networks denser, and elicit the participation of large groups of potentially wayward youth, the phenomenon advised officials search for ways of coexistence and co-optation more careful.

public art

These areas took a form of "public art", aimed to renew certain ethos of collectivism in the face of bureaucratization and commodification of culture, construction of new public spaces and community ties across borders nation-state. This paradigm led to dissimilar channel performance experience or deployed in the urban areas, seeking to confront the public with their everyday lives, often disrupting the institutional rules and procedures established by the use of irreverence and parody as ways transmitters of messages.

Within the semantics generated and shared by officials, promoters, artists and audiences is common to call these spaces "sociocultural." This designation is the daughter of the terminology of "project management" and "community work" developed by associations, local governments and cultural institutions to support agencies. In fact Cuba has, for 9 years, a Bachelor of Socio-Cultural Studies of broad spectrum, which is both promoters and cultural officials, researchers, allied to combine interests and agendas in historical studies, anthropology, communication, etc.

But it has also been appropriated by actors to give an account of experiences are not explicitly political but redefine spaces and practices of statehood to develop (and to some extent replicate and sustain) social service activities and empowerment.

Although the spectrum of this concept can be very broad (covering craft workshops, literary and music clubs, street theater groups, forums of thought, criticism and social research, etc..) Many are born in the margins institutions, as a mere gathering of colleagues, and as promoting "fresh action" from the inside institutions. These groups develop, in their interaction, a particular being, born from the interweaving of knowledge, affection and shared values \u200b\u200band changed daily, and expressed in more or less coherent discourse in the face of a society whose areas would transform practices and testimony.

as forms of association and collective action, these projects tend to self-management and participative leadership, and seek cultural experimentation and local activism and build different status of autonomy and joint spaces facing the state, market and community. This does not mean that inside there are no tensions authoritarian or monopolistic positions of resources and status, but the ways to manage and resolve these conflicts and awareness about the nature of them are substantially different from those found in areas such as family and traditional institutions. One such project, to which I belonged for several years, which will address below.

The Thinking Chair of Emerging Cultures and Haydee Santamaria

The Chair Haydee Santamaria (KHS) is a cultural project born from 2005 inserted into the Review and Research Section Hermanos Saiz Association, and stands as a space for debate, exchange of knowledge, the recovery of historical memories associated with emancipatory experiences in Cuba and the world. Founded in 2003 from the confluence of researchers, academics, writers and arts managers from leading spaces (eg Jonah project) the KHS has made a series of activities of academic debate and community intervention to define the profile of actions the group (Annex 2). Assumes the name of Haydee Santamaria as a tribute to the revolutionary hero, from its responsibility in front of the Casa de las Americas, he sponsored the young and rebellious art (Eg, Nueva Trova) against the silencing and censoring a large part of institutions and individuals reserved for those novice creators.

Inspired by this legacy and current demands, the KHS has developed its work.

guidelines in the KHS documents defines a set of guiding objectives of collective action. Is essential to promote critical and sociocultural research and community transformation projects featuring youth, as stimulus emerging civic cultures and a participatory and libertarian socialist praxis. Complementing this is sought to give the youth a space Cuban creative self - expression, reflection, debate and critical dialogue that combines conceptual rigor with a fraternal spirit. To achieve this purpose, the propitious KHS regular meetings under the mainstream, in terms of territories, knowledge and socio - cultural practices represented. The culmination of this work would create a national network of projects, research and exchanges, which can operate with a permanent, sustainable and production, which hold annual meetings Critics called Observatory, located specifically targets the work of the KHS in area that links research, criticism and work in neighborhoods and schools.

The KHS is composed of a membership that ranges around about 12 permanent members, both members of the AHS how unaffiliated. The group has benefited from inputs and regular outings and motivated by different reasons (migration, differences, focus on other issues / projects), but its nature as a rule has kept flowing contact with former members (Annex 1).

The KHS participatory structure is simple and flexible, emphasizing an integrated coordination for 3 or 4 members (founders and new members rated) oriented areas (logistics, background video / bibliographic treasury, institutional and other projects) and the assumption of major tasks (Critical Observatories, community action). We have tried the rotation of duties, collective deliberation and consultation of basic standards for access and ownership of the project. This feature (and the preservation of identity and dynamic individuals) make autonomy an essential value of collective participatory culture (both internal relations between members and to other places and institutions), visible in your documents, statements and actions and the type of linkages developed with the institutions, especially the AHS.

Project members meet with a variable frequency, depending on availability of staff time and demands of business. This item, as well as stable and proactive participation, not always successfully achieved, focusing on the participatory dynamics of the KHS, charging functions in some partners, and delaying the implementation of previously agreed actions. But mutations in the sociability of the group aimed to enhance democratic participation, as defined that decisions are taken, as a rule, by consensus (in rare cases by majority vote) and considering the criteria of members present in Cuba; those who are temporarily abroad (as well as friends and companions) may express views to be taken into account but without vote.

However, although there are still asymmetries of knowledge and leadership on behalf of some members (mostly founders) this does not capture crystallizes in a space or imposition of logic above the rest, something difficult given my membership . Rather, participatory culture has had to be built under the intentional promotion of a dialogic communication to overcome individualistic tendencies or protagonists and implement ways of doing things the fruits of collective deliberation without resorting to material incentives or concentration or permanent delegation of functions.

Resources for the operation of the KHS has two main sources: input material and monetary donations from members and guests (thanks to scholarships and individual awards, contributions from salaries and other personal income, and support of members and or sympathizers from abroad), and institutional support (premises, logistics and transportation) of the AHS and other institutions and associations (Casa de las Americas, Libraries, Cultural, schools, etc.). The members wanted to preserve and develop the first option for the component of personal commitment that and that power is inherent in the ideal of self as a value proposed (re) constituting the social. Anyway, the personal contribution is measured by its symbolic value, since all members do not have similar access to resources, academic integration and domestic and transnational linkages.

composition class, racial and gender is curiously special. Most members come from working families, being the first academic (or general practitioners) of their families living in neighborhoods in the capital (Marianao, Alamar, Habana Centro) and the neighboring province of Havana. Stresses the majority of blacks and mestizos composition and presence considerable in women, which together with the youth group (average age around 33 years) compared to the other areas of debate, mostly city dwellers, middle class and predominantly white population more adult.

Several members have a "multi-role, regularly participating with diverse spaces for similar purposes (workshops Cuba-USSR and Revolution Living Marinello Institute of the Ministry of Culture; Sessions" Last Thursday "of the journal Topics, associations how Martin Luther King Center and the Centro Felix Varela). In such spaces are inserted individually adjusted standards and purposes the same, yet they are often visible by the KHS membership.

This group brings together members rewarded for their texts and audio-visual national events (memory Our of the May Festival, an international event of the AHS in the province of Holguin), publishing contests (Pinos Nuevos, Themes, Calendar) , research grants (from the AHS, the Institute "Juan Marinello" Latin American Social Science Council). It also has numerous publications in the national press (magazines Themes, Catauro, Gaceta de Cuba, roads, etc..) And digital (Esquife, Havanatimes and Jiribilla-Cuba; Rebellion and Kaosenlared-Spain-, Social Sciences Research Council-US-CETRI-Belgium-etc.). It has to its credit several graduate theses and defended and guardians, compilations and forewords of books, contributions to collective works, teaching in higher education, and advocacy of their members in other cultural and community projects.

participatory culture within the KHS stores a set of shared values \u200b\u200band notions, which testify to a collective reflection structure. Diversity training and intellectual asymmetry (access to resources, knowledge and international impact) has been taken as an opportunity to advance complementary strategies are not always crystallized. Internally, the most comprehensive and complex thinking is undoubtedly that of Dmitri Samsonov Prieto, a biochemist, lawyer, anthropologist and Cuban-Russian cultural promoter. From metarreflexiones to articulate areas of knowledge and praxis, Prieto is able to locate borders and a common thread of contemporary historical, whose coordinates are positioned KHS when referring to the analysis of the present system based on logical world points "(...) For us, the weight of high significance lies in the history of political institutions of the left: the proposed alternative, the organization of the subjects popular, the continuities and ruptures in the democratic (...)".

Acknowledging the defeat of the plurality of proposals from the left during the establishment of the Cold War and bipolarity, accounts for the subordination of radical movements and debates hegemonic centers. And bet because "The recovery of organically engenders institutional questioning the need for meeting places of diverse ideas - ideas counter to the hegemonic power structure, knowledge and desire. Therefore, in good faith can say that in the immediate strategic horizon on the left is the rescue of the plurality in their thinking to "top affirming" The left thought worth something only if fertile and conceive beings are free and think that your piece come to life in the universe because they share jointly freedom. "

A contribution to the reflection in the KHS focused on the Cuban social context is provided by the historian and cultural advocate and community activist Mario Castillo. Noting the huge effort (and results) of redistributive policies, righteous developed by the Revolution of 1959, Castillo called attention to the floklorización egalitarian universalism and cultural practices which meant that Afro-Cuban A matching model sociorracial core of the revolutionary process characterization is carried out three controversial features. "1)" Sense of revolutionary change as the realization of a moral and teleological timeless, beyond the will of the parties involved in the change, 2) a transformative practice-oriented cultural and political homogenization of revolutionary subjects, leading to a vision of plurality, in the best, as an ornament of the new order and not as a political resource assets of the revolution, 3) a weakening trend of the role of popular organizations in the defense and socialist economy to for a technocratic, top-down management, typical of the cold war socialism ("real") that hampered the socialization of power, creating an increasing depoliticization of everyday life and ritualization of participation (...) "

For his part, Ramón García lawyer defends Cuba's proposal for a libertarian socialism based on three basic features: self-management, dialogue and consensus. "Let's say that this is an open society and libertarian and that it is underway. In Cuba, the dilemma is: state or market?, As neither is: statism or civilians? We demand a more Organic between state and society where the transfer of constitutional power of the state towards society happen urgently. (...) The strategic objective would be to restructure social institutions and practices at the interface of a critical consciousness to translate the popular discontent in shares of radical transformation of existing society. "

Meanwhile, the political scientist remembers Hiram Hernandez Castro fruitful juncture of the 60 in Cuba and expressed further Shifting "(...), namely closure of the journal Critical Thinking, rampant bureaucracy intellectual spaces, the imposition of dogmatic Marxism, censorship, the infallibility of the guardians, the politicization of aesthetics and beautification of the policy, etc. (...). "connecting with a sense of this when he says" (...) the rectification of those errors, has been marked by permanence, sometimes behind, others less so, of political positions that resemble the gray times of our revolutionary history.

KHS One constant has been the recovery of historical memory of the Cuban revolutionary process and in particular of the heroes and popular sectors, but not as worship but as tools for critical analysis of this. In this sense, the historian raises Yeniela Cedeño Ernesto Che Guevara: "In Socialism and Man in Cuba, its perceived anti-imperialist thinking, his conception of the individual in building a just society, without discrimination, and able to make disposals threaten the freedom of man, in a word: socialist. His personality is a symbol of integrity, self discipline, austerity, sense of ethics and the human being who suffers and seeks a better future.

That tuning basic assumptions is not an obstacle to ignore specific differences in terms of meanings and concreteness of the collective action. Two stand Basic postures and attitudes, a radical work emphasizes the importance of informal spaces, the primacy of autonomy over other values \u200b\u200band explicitly defend libertarian stance, and one targeted to the institutional linkage, the demand for more spaces within spaces formal (physical media) and the option of taking the state agencies as heterogeneous spaces, where to find allies, and plan necessary changes. Libertarian so expands the frontier of what is considered possible, and institutional levels consolidates and builds alliances to sustain achievements. Both views-that converge on the need for collaboration with different actors (Informal, community, organizational, institutional) and foreign nationals, and to build capital and space to meet the objectives of the KHS-have been undertaken by members alike, even though several of them are identifiable from one stable .

discussions also highlight the need to focus on space won and deepen their performance (eg within the AHS) or extended to emerging demands constant (eg Public Forum La Escuelita), to consolidate the work socializing via publication or further collective impact of individual members in different forums, to privilege brainstorming sessions higher academic or support community activities, etc. This debate has no doubt the plurality of political imagination and research profiles (Annex 1) both within the group and the production of the members, highlighting the hybrid disciplines and complex thought.

The KHS has built strong relationships with other groups, providing for the joint stable networking with groups such as OMNI (performance, visual, mutimedia, poetry and reflection), blackening (afrohaitiana deep ecology and culture) and Group Cultural Studies Americas (deep ecology thinking and mystical people native), among others. With several of these projects have been undertaken joint activities (event thought on the subject of Reggaeton) and participated in their activities (without Weekend Poetry Festival OMNI). Contacts have been successful and sustained collaboration with the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, the Federation of University Students (national leadership and in schools), associations such as the Centers for Martin Luther King and Felix Varela, actors in the world of culture as Center Esquife Criteria and the portal. Will have valuable links with friends and international institutions highlighting Francois Houtart and the Centre Tricontinental (Belgium), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, Frederick Engels Foundation and several colleagues of the Working Party, the Mesoamerican Forum, the Latin American Medical School and various social movements of the continent (landless Brazilians, Venezuelans libertarians, activists, Mapuche Chilean, Argentine piqueteros, etc.).

The importance of these participatory networks is crucial as a mechanism for survival and expansion of its activities. How to raise Robert Putnam, who describes the operation of networks of vertical and horizontal "(...) dense networks of social exchange are crucial condition for the emergence of a norm of reciprocity widespread. When reliable individuals who are willing to cooperate with others is only a small minority of the total population of society, a condition that can survive, thrive and expand is to establish a network among them "

However, these spaces interaction also are also emerging framework for asymmetric relations. Those horizontal networks that bring together actors of equal status and power (KHS-OMNI) enhance denser and horizontal relationships and their transformative effects on the social level are more positive. For his part but in the nets (KHS-AHS) resolve collective action problems and channel demands of its members, its logic difficult to sanction and control up.

Throughout its history, the KHS has faced various challenges and conflicts. In May and June 2008 several members were fired as investigators in centers affiliated to the Communist Party Central Committee and has been questions and attempts to discourage activities by various law enforcement officials and interior in charge of monitoring activities KHS. In all cases reported to the relevant actors and our rejection of the decision to continue the lines of work.

In 2005 a media distortion of Other legacies event in October led meetings with the former leadership of AHS which, in assessing the work done, it appreciates the continuity and offered logistical and legal support it without compromising internal dynamics and identity of the KHS. Collective decision, which had been to defend our work and continue in all circumstances, was to accept the offer (in fact working with AHS membership was already intense by founders and members) to occur as the official draft section Criticism and Research Havana province, with the continued support of the then provincial president Yuray Tolentino. Since then links with the AHS (and its various provincial) have been strengthened by participating in events and activities throughout the country.

As part of its consistency, KHS has developed various civic actions of solidarity with other spaces and colleagues involved in common struggles. This is part of an idea to create networks (frames) with entities and individuals related to their work that enhances both mutual solidarity in the struggle of various actors to obtain and preserve civic spaces such as in positions of public complaint actions inherent to the culture of domination. Just highlight the support given to intellectual Desiderio Navarro to the threat of financial strangulation of the Center Criteria, to support youth demand opening of debate on the Five Year which led to the Gray Lecture Series developed at the Instituto Superior de Arte in 2007, the defense of the necessary continuity of the Workshop Bolshevik pronouncements of support for struggles popular in Latin America and the world, reporting the war in Iraq.

trendsetters

Several evaluative evidence on the work of the KHS and its role in the current Cuban situation. To Francois Houtart "(...) the work of these young people is crucial, pick up the legacy of the Revolution and discuss problems and solutions from a socialist perspective." Lucio presented similar views Costa, Table founder of the Workers Party of Brazil who said active exchanges with the group, and Yuray Tolentino who acknowledged the work of the group and especially Vice President Dmitri Prieto, Mario Castillo, head of Criticism and Research section. Finally, the AHS itself on its website, KHS defined as "(...) one of the most important cultural projects of the Review and Research Section in Havana.

However, groups such as the KHS remains a long way to consolidate a job that, given the expected expansion of social demands, will enable them to project the group to positions qualitatively agenda higher. The oft-delayed crystallization of his theoretical (in book form or media) of the hand of a more organic integration of collective thought, the more systematic involvement of the entire membership in the work of coordination and compliance with collective agreements improving linkages with other projects and institutions (formal spaces and emerging balancing), and the move towards greater self-generated by contributions of members, are some of the challenges faced by the project.

Conclusions

Today there

in Cuba (despite the survival of structural problems) a scenario identical to the infamous 70's. Official cultural institutions show greater tolerance for dissent intrasystemic, both mutations in the composition and references of a more plural society, the greater power of artistic public spheres, the presence of Internet censorship blurs the barriers of old ( other more precarious generating efficiency), and the expansion of cultural projects and new modes of incorporation of artists and audiences of critical discourses, sensitivities and counter-hegemonic movements. In this context, the artistic communities try to influence policy cultural state, while it is engaged in shaping their agendas and guidance, maintaining suspicions, tensions and, as a material basis of this complex relationship, asymmetry between the strength of the actors. And it is not excluded, given its relative confinement and isolation of population guild and watchtowers of high politics, new crises and conflicts that feel conditions of possibility of new transformations.

Unfortunately there is still a vision (predominantly in the civil service) packed full of animosity towards these areas, which hampers their potential for integration cooptativa, and contributions to the revitalization of socialista que muchos de ellos proponen. Como plantea S. Fernandes “Artist themselves do not always seek to collaborate with the sate or reconcile their critical perspectives with dominate narratives; at times they propose alternative strategies for social renewal or criticize the state for not living up to their expectations. The political leadership recognizes the potential of critical art to be framed in ways that may not be accommodating to the dominant order (…) critical public dialogues makes available languages that can be used by forces that want to bring about radical change, not just reform within the system. For this reason, as the state attemps to institucionalize and incorporate critical art, the leadership also keeps it out of the mass media”.

Recent research has highlighted the existence of several possible cultural impact for Cuban civil society: revolution from within the revolution, improving the regulations and institutions, working with these institutions to strengthen their performance and autonomy antisystemic become a force to remove the entire work process. Convinced that in the first two options is the most promising future perspective, from a real anti-capitalist and popular empowerment, is in that direction that fits the work of the CHS for nearly 10 years. Persistently develop its action and thought with the exhortation that "(...) we flood of constructive criticism and viable social alternative spaces existing officers and others believe, as Che Guevara, where the libertarian and daring collective intelligence to make a piece."

Looking

future in Cuba is necessary to relaunch a citizen activist and participatory public sphere denationalise expanding the pattern of socio-political inclusion, and promote new levels of equality and freedom in social relations and the representation of diverse identities) and take advantage of education levels, access culture, mentality and the notion of equal participation as a duty creatively recreated from the legacy of the Revolution. Faced with the challenge of starting to change a setting trends predominantly by hardliners "(...) must first find ways to introduce new elements of symmetry in order to achieve greater reciprocity of the rules. Success will depend on the ability to sustain relatively autonomous organizations (...) that are capable of restricting the decisions of the rules (...) Only the development of structures of authority and function as a counterweight can introduce greater reciprocity in the general constitution of a society, in which there are serious political asymmetries "

In the midst of an internal field of restrictive visibly asymmetric forces, compensating for the lack of resources and the precariousness of the legal framework and legitimacy to his activism, social and cultural projects Chair Haydee Santamaria how they manage to display popular empowerment processes that counteract the effects of bureaucratic power mercantilizantes trends that threaten the horizon of a socially desirable and perfectible.

Havana / Xalapa, summer 2009.

Epilogue

The events of recent months, but do not invalidate The items on pages, new scenarios seem to presage conflicts and alliances. The first derived from the series of restrictive actions from the institutions mentioned in

http://observatoriocritico.blogspot.es/

In a recent interview, noted the need for solidarity articulated to amplify the isolated effects of various areas of debate and defend (by public) of institutional closures. Persists as the underlying problem of lack of transparency of our deliberative spaces, as well as the rules that establish the asymmetry of resources, power and means of dissemination of ideas among porous society, diverse and creative, on the one hand, and a majority of state agencies ignorant of politics and communication logic of the XXI century.

Although the diversification of means of dissemination of ideas and the growing power tends to favor symbolic first screened poorly attended spaces (using a combination of self-silencing and belligerence), contrary to media and provocations developed low-intensity wars against poor Cuban public sphere by the Stalinist thought and its correlation with right-wing, inside and outside the island

The situation seems to confirm the idea that our managers and cultural movements should avoid "keep" empty your senses. Because holding a sterile forum only serves to legitimize authoritarian regimes, exclusions and decorate the censorship of critical thinking, appearing non-existent: plurality, respect and dialogue as

general conditions of social life and no union privileges. Beyond ensuring the existence of these spaces live role-it is bounded to be transcending, and influence public spaces transforming vocation. And to achieve this we start with small attitudes: the reporting of any physical or verbal aggression seeking silence, without arguments, the voices of the other-provided that this does not turn promoter or carrying explicit violence, "the rejection of physical exclusion policy deliberative spaces, the personal disqualification as a substitute for debate administrative and political repression of ideas and carriers.

In return pressures, sanctions and exclusions, CHS has committed itself to build new connections in the framework of the Critical Network Monitoring, emerged from meetings and forums related homologous and composed of individuals and groups in Cuba committed to a relaunch participatory Cuban socialism. At the individual level many members of the CHS have participated in exchanges with representatives of the Landless Movement, the Zapatista Communities, the European anti-capitalist movements and groups Venezuelan Libertarian. This strategy, coupled with the militant solidarity of intellectuals and the left anti-capitalist groups and different social movements in nations such as Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, USA, Germany and France, are definitely an invaluable resource to meet the challenges " signs of the times seem to announce.

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ANNEX 1: Profile of members of the Chair "Haydee Santamaría" (provinces of La Habana and Ciudad de La Habana):

1. Gonzalo Castillo Mario Santana (Havana, 1975) historian, teacher and neighborhood activist. Studies of popular culture, racial issues and political theory. Chinese immigrants and descendants

2. Hiram Hernandez Castro (Havana, 1973), a political scientist, historian, essayist and lecturer. Cultural studies philosophy and political theory.

3. Simon Eddy Carlos Forcade (Havana, 1980), essayist and professor of arts and letters. Cultural Studies philosophical-theological and historical. Orthodox Christian Deacon

4. Fyodor Mancebo Rodríguez (Havana, 1974), historian and teacher. Latin American studies and philosophy.

5. Ana Luisa Castillo Vicarte (Havana, 1980), professor of arts and letters. Cultural studies.

6. Prieto Dmitri Samsonov (Havana, 1972), jurist, anthropologist, biochemical, poet, teacher. Legal studies in philosophy and theology, anthropology and complex thought.

7. Ramón García Guerra (Havana, 1960), lawyer, professor and activist neighborhood. Community studies, social theory.

8. Angel Edhel Cardeaux Gay (Havana, 1975), psychologist. Cultural promoter, a professor of dance, cultural studies.

9. Chaguaceda Armando Noriega (Havana, 1975), a political scientist, educator, historian, activist neighborhood, teacher. And Cuban American Studies, participation and political theory.

10. Tato Quiñones (Serafin Quiñones Tiant) (Havana, 1942), writer, journalist and producer of videos. Studies of popular culture and religion. Abakuá, Ifa Priest,

11. Miriam Herrera Jerez (Havana, 1975), historian, writer, teacher. Studies of popular culture, race, Chinese immigrants and descendants.

12. Julio Tang (Havana, 1975), historian, teacher. Popular culture studies, Chinese immigrants and descendants.

13. Jorge Luis German (Havana, 1972), theologian and political scientist. Studies social theory and theology.

14. Karel Negrete (Havana, 1982), lawyer and teacher. Studies in political theory.

15. Pavel German Benitez (Havana, 1974), lawyer and teacher. Latin American studies and political theory.

16. Cedeño Yeniela Hechavarría (Havana, 1978), historian and broadcaster. Studying popular culture, gender and race.

17. Polina Shviétsova Martinez (Havana, 1976), writer, poet, cultural promoter and editor. Literary studies socio-cultural and spiritual. Cuban immigrants and descendants

post-Soviet

Note: Not all members were active and / or the country at the time of the investigation.

ANNEX 2: List of Activities of the Chair Haydee Santamaria

-Event "Humanism and the paradox of modernity", Library Reuben M. Villena, La Habana Vieja Municipality, May 2003. Event

-Fascist Youth Forum "here Place your fascism: fascism, historical memory and everyday life," Reuben M. Library Villena, M. Ruben Library Villena, La Habana Vieja Municipality, July 2003.

-Event "The other legacies of October," UNEAC Villena Hall, Casa de las Americas, Reuben M. Library Villena, La Habana Vieja Municipality, March 2005.

-Memorial Event "A Mad trust: Tribute to the combatant poet Roque Dalton, UNEAC Villena Hall, Library Reuben M. Villena, County-City of Old Havana's Revolution Square, May 2005.

-I Observatory Critical Critical Research Section AHS National, home of the Young Creator, Municipio San José de las Lajas, March 2006.

-Memorial Event "Aracelio Churches in memory", House of Culture of the Municipality of Centro Habana, June 2006.

-Workshop "We purposely reggaeton" Burrow AHS headquarters Centro Habana Municipality, June 2007.

-cultural action "Tribute to the martyrs and heroes nanigos 5 November 27, Corner Morro, Habana Vieja, November 27, 2007.

- Memorial "Tribute to the martyrs of Moncada neighborhood of La Ceiba." Municipio Playa, January 1, 2008

-cultural action in the park of La Ceiba on the 155th anniversary of the birth of José Martí, Municipio Playa, 28 January, 2008.

- II National Critical Observatory. Criticism and Research Section of AHS. Creator Young House, Municipality of San Jose de las Lajas, February, 2008.

-Video Debates deep America, Chair Haydee Santamaria Cultural Studies Group Americas, Higher Pedagogical Institute "Silverio Blanco, School of Social Workers and Plastic Arts, Sancti Spiritus, March 2008.

Parade-Participation in Labor Day, Revolution Square, May 1, 2008.

-Cultural Action "Tribute to the martyrs and heroes nanigos 5 November 27, Corner Morro, Habana Vieja, November 27, 2008. Debates

-Video

deep America, Chair Haydee Santamaria, Sancti Spiritus, February 2009.

- Critically III National Observatory. Criticism and Research Section of AHS, Boca de Jaruco (Santa Cruz del Norte municipality, 13 to 15 March 2009.

- Participation in Parade Labour Day, Revolution Square, May 1, 2009.

- Report of Coup in Honduras, through the "Letter of Solidarity from the Centre Critical social movements in Honduras" in http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=11386

-Cultural Action "Homage to May the martyrs and heroes nanigos November 27, Corner Morro, Habana Vieja, November 27, 2009.

-Approval by the Charter to reject the existing obstructions and prohibitions of social and cultural critic Observatory network in

http://observatoriocritico.blogspot.es/

addition to these symposia held intermittently CHS from 2005 to 2008 a space called "school" based initially in Almendares Park Amphitheater in the park and then H and 21 which made thematic presentations, from a program developed by the regular attendees, addressing different authors, experiences, thoughts and current cultural and political processes. CHS currently involved, along with other groups, in Videodebates weekly frequency, within the framework of Critical Monitoring Network.