The Book Fair's proposals for April 23 at the different venues and subsites of the event in Havana will be varied. Sales of titles, lectures with prominent panelists, film screenings, theatrical presentations and award ceremonies are some of the activities to be held. Below, we recommend some of them.

Recommended Activities as part of the Book Fair (Saturday, April 23)

San Carlos de La Cabaña Fortress

Nicolás Guillén" Hall

1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m. Presentation of seven titles specialized in legal topics: OHADAC Model Law, Rodolfo Ávalos; El sujeto en estado de miedo y la exención de la responsabilidad penal, Yoruanys Suñez Tejera; El contrato de leasing financiero mobiliario. Propuesta para su perfeccionamiento en Cuba, David Valle Cordero; Breve historia de la justicia administrativa en Cuba hasta 1958, Andry Mantilla; Política penal y penitenciaria. El reglamento del sistema penitenciario en el contexto actual de desarrollo de la sociedad cubana, Alfonso Zequeira Peña; Ley General de la Vivienda, Santiago Herrera. Legislative Compendium. Presented by: Rodolfo Avalos, Yoruanys Suñez Tejera, David Valle Cordero, Andry Mantilla, Alfonso Zequeira Peña, Santiago Herrera and Juan Mendoza. National Office of Collective Law Firms (ONBC).

5:00 p.m. Ceremony for the awarding of the National Literature Prize to writer Julio Travieso Serrano.

K-5 (Cultural Project Our History and Continuity).

10:30 a.m. El reino embrujado and Wendy y el duque Pedro, Orlando Cardoso Villavicencio. Verde Olivo Publishing House. Presentation of the documentary Un héroe singular. Farvisión Team.

11:15 a.m. Nunca habrá soledad para ti. Epistolary, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez. Captain San Luis Publishing House.

Havana Historical Center

José Antonio Portuondo" Hall

10:00 a.m. New Universal History, Sergio Guerra Vilaboy and Eduardo Torres Cuevas.

1:00 p.m. Presentation of the bilingual edition Fracturas y otras historias/Fractures et autres histoires, by Antón Arrufat. Editorial L'Atinoir. Presenters: Anton Arrufat; Marc Sagaert, translator and director of the Alliance Française de Cuba; and Jacques Aubergy, editor.

2:00 p.m. Lecture "Cuba-Tuxpan, a history of freedom, culture and Latin American identity". Speaker: Ramón Rodríguez Rangel, director of the magazine PRAXIS, Cultura y Medio Ambiente.

Alejo Carpentier" Hall

11:00 a.m. Lecture "The relationship between visual arts and literature", about the book Lecciones para una liebre muerta, Mario Bellatin.

1:00 p.m. Fatamorgana de amor con banda de música, Hernán Rivera Letelier. Presented by Patricio Rojas. Ediciones La Luz.3:00 p.m. Estrofas, imagen, fundación: The oratory of José Martí, Luis Álvarez Álvarez. Presented by: Mariana Pérez. Cuban Letters Publishing House.

José Lezama Lima" Hall (A)

10: 00 a.m. Stones will cry out. Contemporary Cuban poetry with LGBTQ+ themes, compilers Jesús Barquet and Virgilio López Lemus. Presented by Virgilio López Lemus. Ediciones La Luz.

12:00 p.m. Unpublished Collected Poetry, by Abigael Bohórquez. Presented by: Gerardo Bustamante.

Country Guest of Honor (Casa "Benito Juárez").

1:00 p.m. Librovejero, Álvaro Castillo. Moderator: Dazra Novak.

House of Poetry

V Encounter of Poetry Promoters

10:00 a.m.: Mini editorial fair, with presentations of poetry books by guest authors and poetry catalogs of the participating national and foreign publishers. Moderator: Alejandra Ferrer. Participants: Álvaro Castillo (Ediciones San Librario, Colombia), Gertrudis Ortiz (Editorial Arte y Literatura), Leymen Pérez (Editorial Letras Cubanas), Karel Leyva Ferrer (Colección Sur Editores), Alfredo Zaldívar (Ediciones Matanzas), José Adrián Vitier (La Isla Infinita Collection), Luis Yuseff Reyes (Ediciones La Luz), Yaremis Pérez Dueñas (Cubaliteraria), Yadián Carbonell (Ediciones Áncoras), Ian Rodríguez (Reina del Mar Editores), Alejandro Hernández (Sed de Belleza), Rodolfo Tamayo (Ediciones Caserón, Cuba), Alicia Arés (De herméticos lugares, Cuadernos del Laberinto, Spain), Javier Rodríguez Barranco (Ediciones Azimut, Spain), Luis Armenta Malpica (Mantis Editores, Mexico), Miguel Pineda, Pablo Inberg, José Miguel Barajas García (Aquelarre, Mexico), Elías Mondragón (Ediciones Kualap, Peru), Carmen Rojas Larrazábal, Luis Manuel Pérez Boitel and Leymen Pérez (El Arco y la Flecha Editores, USA), Osmany Echevarría (Ediciones Loynaz). Presentation of the book La línea oscura, by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez.

3:00 p.m. Panel tribute to Jesús Orta Ruiz, El Indio Naborí. Participants: Marilú Macías, Virgilio López Lemus, Juan Nicolás Padrón, Gerardo García Barceló. Moderator: Fidel Antonio Orta.

Directorate of Periodical Publications (Casa Víctor Hugo)

11: 00 a.m. Presentation of publication no. 247 of Pionero, in recognition of the 60th anniversary of its founding.

2:45 p.m. Presentation of the Cuban Journal of Computer Sciences of the UCI: "Fifteen years of a scientific journal: Remembrances and time for a leap". Moderator: Jorge Gulín González (editor-in-chief) Guests: Héctor Raúl González Diez (director of Science, Technology and Innovation of the UCI), Isel Patricia Morlá Díaz (Editorial Coordinator of Ediciones Futuro, UCI), Aray Villar Machado (assistant editor of the RCCi).

3:45 p.m. Presentation of Tino's magazine no. 80, special edition that addresses the theme of educational robotics, on its 15th anniversary, along with Joven Club's digital platforms that contribute to the promotion of books and serial publications in the country. Presenters: Yolagny Díaz Bermúdez (director); Aniano Aníbal Díaz Bombino (editor); Grether Nadiezka Acosta Savón (editor-communicator) and Yanisleidys Rosabal Borges (editor-designer).

Professional Room (Rubén Martínez Villena Public Library).

10:00 a.m. Panel "Observers of reading policies in Cuba". Moderator: Enrique Pérez Díaz, Director of the Cuban Book and Reading Observatory. Participants: Book to the home: Bringing reading closer to the Cuban home, Dulce Domínguez Gómez, Director of the Provincial Center of Books and Literature of Havana. Bibliocasas: A sustainable experience? Enrique Pérez Díaz, El no tiempo de leer (Experiencias desde un Observatorio de Lectura), Regla Perea, Provincial Director of Public Libraries and the Rubén Martínez Villena Library. Reading as an engine of social and cultural change Challenges of the publishing industry in reading education, Tanía García Lorenzo, PhD in Economics and researcher.

1:30 p.m. Panel. The current Latin American comic strip. Influences, themes and diffusion. Participants: Lysbeth Daumont (director of the Vitrina de Valonia), Cuba; José Luis Pescador (cartoonist), Mexico; and Rocío Cruz Toranzo (curator), art historian, Cuba.

Cuba Digital (Palacio Central de Computación)

11:00 a.m. Panel: "Challenges of the digital book in today's Cuba". Speakers: CINESOFT Frangel Torres, CITMATEL Jorge Acosta Ezcurra (director of Multimedia Projects), Cuban Editions Rafael Lago Sarichev (designer), Ruth Casa Editorial Carlos Tablada (director). Moderator: Yaremis Pérez Dueñas (director Cubaliteraria).

4:00 p.m. Presentation of digital products Ediciones Geo-CINESOFT: Coloring America I, Animals of the World, Cuba and its nature, The Paris Exhibition. Presented by: Severo Vicente Monzón Arzuaga.

Venues in El Vedado

Cultural Center "Dulce María Loynaz".

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Panel tribute to professors Raúl Aguiar and Sergio Cevedo. Literary Training Center "Onelio Jorge Cardoso".

2:00 p.m. Miami, dirty money, Hedelberto López Blanch. Presented by Ramón Labañino. New Millennium Publishing House.

Vicente Revuelta Cultural Center, Tablas-Alarcos Publishing House.

4:00 p.m. Table on Ibero-American Theater: Panoramic Dramaturgies, compilation by Taimi Diéguez. Presented by Dania del Pino. Selected theater by Jaime Chabaud. Presented by: Omar Valiño. Porque no habrá quien nos mande. Spanish female playwrights and female protagonists (2000-2020), anthology by Abel González Melo. Presented by: Agnieska Hernández.

8:30 p.m. Staging at the Sala Adolfo Llauradó of Fátima, la reina de la noche. Mefisto Teatro.

Casa de las Américas (3rd and G, El Vedado)

Che Guevara Hall

2:00 p.m. Evo: Operation Rescue, a geopolitical plot in 365 days, Alfredo Serrano Mancilla. Presented by: Alfredo Serrano Mancilla.

Cuba Pavilion (23rd and N, El Vedado)

Central Patio

11:00 a.m. Presentation of the Cuban School of Wusu, Confucius Group.

2:00 p.m. Conversation "Women in the show", by Gladys Egües. Presentation of Turarte Magazine and the Kubasoy Project. Promotion of the titles Renacer, Alfredo Ceballos Mesa. Editorial de La Mujer; and Belleza corporal, Editorial José Martí.

La Pérgola

1:00 p.m. Discussion "Musicians in Cuban Literature, Peasant Genre and Son Montuno". Presented by: Rafael Lam Marimón.

2:00 p.m. Presentation of the Septeto Ignacio Piñeiro. Celebrating its 95th anniversary. Along the paths of art, an approach to its manifestations in Cuba. Editorial Pueblo y Educación.

May Hall

2:00 p.m. Presentation of books Editorial Sed de Belleza (Villa Clara): La contienda, Félix Javier Batista del Valle (Poetry); Llagas en la lengua. Selección de poesía española, Laura Villar Gómez; Lina de Feria: Identidad femenina y poesía, Adianys González Herrera (Essay); Pensar el país, José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero (Interviews); Conversar es amar, Rafael José Rodríguez Pérez (Journalism); Ruta crítica del sindicalismo cubano actual, Fernando Luis Rojas (Essay); Juventudes, Luis Alberto Figueroa Pagés (Essay).

Film Room

2:00 p.m. Conversation "Imprint of Jesús Orta Ruiz, El Indio Naborí, 100 years after his birth", by María Eugenia Azcuy. The Return of the Fifth Wizard. Naborí, Life and Poetry, Alba María Orta Pérez. José Martí Publishing House.

José Martí National Library of Cuba

Eliseo Diego Children and Youth Hall:

10:30 a.m. Sabatinas Infantiles: Bibliographic exhibition of works by Juan Padrón; Cartoon exhibition; Pippa meets Elpidio Valdés, games with the children and the character's adventures. Traditional games (rope, sack race, sancos, spinning top, the scarf, pon, bowling, chalk painting on the floor).

Taken from Cubadebate

Photo: Abel Padrón Padilla