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Todas las manifestaciones se dieron cita en el I Festival Internacional de las Artes Trinidad de Cuba.
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El festival se adueñó de plazas, calles y espacios públicos.

Since the First International Festival of the Arts of Cuba took place in Trinidad (the third village that was founded in the island) stopped being the city trapped in the labyrinth of time and it also stopped being the touristic destination that thousands of foreigners and Cubans visit daily. It became a county of popular culture, though it was like a pilot chapter of what will happen next year in these parts of the island.
Stilt walkers, clowns, actors, lingerie, painting, music, dance, literary clubs, shows for children, cooking, audiovisual presentation, performance… All gathered to reach out to the public parks and cobbled streets. The idea is that art and culture climb steep mountains to reach the rural countryside communities of the territory. They also want to provide uninterrupted days in which the traditions of the past coexist with new trends in contemporary art.
«This is an unprecedented meeting in Trinidad –Juan Carlos González Castro points out, president of the Provincial Council for the Performing Arts– to reposition the city in the centre of the culture on the island, as it was years ago.»
Nobody summed up the significance of this event better, but as an elderly when she watched human statues hanging around the street. «It's like going back to the glorious years,» she repeated again and again to Arte por Excelencias. And it is that this villager knows the value of the artistic wealth of Trinidad. She knows it will be sufficient with making them come together in a coherent way.
If we take paradigmatic events such as May Festival in Holguin, and the Feast of the Caribbean in Santiago de Cuba as references, Trinidad will risk like never before to regain the vigour that it one day exhibited. It seems that in November, when the foreign participants land on the island, the village will experience a new dawn. Then it will become an earthly paradise where the arts find fertile ground.