For more than three decades, La Colmenita has been installed in the feelings of the inhabitants of the Island, and beyond the seas, not only for the beauty of its proposals, but -and above all- because the children's theater company has endeavored to form, more than artists, good people for the future of Cuba and the world.
This was once again demonstrated last Saturday, at the El Laguito Protocol Hall, when the group presented, together with Ocean Sur Publishing House, the book La Colmenita, ¡Mi vida! (La Colmenita, my Life!) with the premiere of the play of the same name, according to a report on the Presidency's website.
The volume, written by the creator of the project, Carlos Alberto "Tin" Cremata Malberti, gathers in images and texts the 34 years of delivery of the "hive".
The show was attended by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, as well as other leaders of the Party, the State and the Government, together with representatives of political and mass organizations, cultural and scientific personalities.
David Deutschmann, president of Ocean Press and Ocean Sur Publishing Houses, said that "this is a special book, one of the most important edited by Ocean Sur, because it is a noble and worthy project. Tin is an exceptional man, he is a product of the Cuban Revolution".
In several moments of the work, structured in the manner of a "press conference", Tin referred to Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and Army General Raul Castro Ruz, the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, two close friends of the Company, which was transformed "from an eminently artistic project to a fundamentally pedagogical one.
The first copy of La Colmenita, ¡Mi vida! was sent to Raúl, and was also given as a gift to the First Secretary of the Party, "For sowing the road with Fidel".
Tin Cremata also stated that this school -founded on February 14, 1990, at a difficult time for Cuba, when the special period was looming- "is not the work of one man, it is the collective work of hundreds of people who continue to forge it every day".
