CUBAN EXILE PLAYWRITING AND THEATER DAY

ARTEFACTUS Cultural Project and OLLANTAY Center for the Arts once again call for the commemoration of Cuban Exile Playwright and Theater Day, a day to celebrate the vigor, complexity, and persistence of a theater born on the fringes of insularity, yet deeply linked to Cuban cultural history.

This initiative emerged in 2013 through an agreement between two institutions located at different ends of the United States: ARTEFACTUS Cultural Project, founded and directed by Eddy Díaz Souza in Miami, and OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, created by Pedro Monge Rafuls in New York. Since then, every May 30th, the work of Cuban playwrights, directors, actors, designers, and theater promoters in exile is remembered and honored. They have managed to keep alive a performing practice committed to memory, identity, and free artistic creation.