Cuban News Agency

Jeannette V Fischer (Cookie), a professor from this university, who is the
promoter and coordinator of the project, explained to ACN news agency the
interdisciplinary nature of the initiative because it includes students of
several degrees such as social communication, architecture, film, design
and even economy, which expands the range of the exchanges and integrates
various fields.

She noted that because the practical and professional results of this
first group she believes there will be many more to come, considering that
even some of the youngsters here this time already expressed their desire
to repeat the experience.

Fischer pointed out that this is a unique event, which involves all
possible angles, in a synergy of topics such as art, society, academic
knowledge and mutual spiritual growth.

The professor also explained that this trip was possible because for years
she has known several people in the SCJM, who along with some US groups
carried out works with a very strong passion and amazing persistence.

She said that the first result of this exchange was the penning of an
agreement with the International School of Film and Television of San
Antonio de los Baños and their young students received lectures from
prominent figures such as the Cuban photographer Roberto Salas.

They have also experienced direct contact with many people and
institutions in the streets of Havana.

For me it is very important that they learn there is another way to
interconnect, because they come from a society with many material
facilities and here they see how creativity emerges from the encounter
with the community, something that we lack in our country, which is much
more individualistic, she expressed .

The academic said she was excited about the invitation they received from
actor Manuel Porto who has developed a successful and renowned work in
community cultural promotion in a far-off place as the Cienaga de Zapata
swamp.