Fátima Patterson Received the Key to the City of Santiago de Cuba

December 16, 2019

As part of the celebrations for Culture Workers' Day, Fátima Patterson, actress and National Theater Award winner in 2017, received the Key to the City today, at the provincial gala commemorating the date.

"Santiago gave me the key a long time ago, I am a happy woman because I am convinced that I have a small place in the hearts of santiagueros and they have demonstrated it to me during these 50 years of work," said the also director of the Estudio Teatro Macubá group.

Fátima reaffirmed her commitment to the city, to the culture of the nation and to the homeland, while stating that whoever tries to tarnish or vilify it will find in her a shield to defend it.

The key to the city is a distinction awarded by the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power in Santiago de Cuba to personalities and institutions that stand out for their work in the cultural, educational, sports and social development of the territory.

Every December 14, Cuba celebrates Culture Workers' Day in homage to the birth, in 1928, of Raúl Gómez García, author of the poem Ya estamos en combate, read minutes before the young people of the Centennial Generation departed to assault the Moncada Barracks.

The gala was organized by students from the José María Heredia Vocational School of Art and the Esteban Salas music conservatory, institutions created after 1959, when the triumph of the Cuban Revolution began the transformation of the country's social and cultural reality, while expanding the horizons of the national artistic universe, under the guidance of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, eternal defender of culture.