On Tuesday, October 6, in the Manuel Galich Hall, the director of the Program of Studies on the Original Cultures of America and vice president of the institution, Jaime Gómez Triana, will deliver the lecture A House for Abya Yala. Indigenous Thought and the Decolonizing Task in Our America.

This program systematizes a line of work present since the founding of Casa, aimed at making visible the history, knowledge, and artistic expressions of the hemisphere's Indigenous peoples.

Meanwhile, from Monday, October 12, to Friday, October 16, the Haydee Santamaría Gallery will host the VII International Colloquium on Studies of the Original Cultures of America, under the theme Original Cosmologies: Urgent Dialogues to Postpone the End of the World.

Casa de las Américas announced that the month's program will close from Monday, October 26, to Wednesday, October 28, with the Caribbean Social Thought Cycle Migrations in the Contemporary Caribbean, organized by the Casa's Center for Caribbean Studies.

Founded in 1959 by Cuban heroine Haydee Santamaría, Casa de las Américas in Havana is one of the first cultural institutions created after the revolutionary triumph on January 1 of the same year.

Conceived as a space for encounter and dialogue for the sociocultural integration of Latin America and the Caribbean, the entity disseminates, researches, sponsors, awards, and publishes the work of writers, visual artists, musicians, theater artists, and social science scholars from the continent.