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November 2017 | There are 10 news items in this month
Armando Hart, former minister for Education and Culture, dies in Cuba
date: 29 Nov 2017
Armando Hart, a historic figure of the Cuban revolution who as education minister in the early 1960s oversaw a huge literacy campaign aimed at ensuring all Cubans could read and
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Mali-Cuba: Music Across Generations - a new documentary
date: 29 Nov 2017
A new film documents a unique project bringing together children from two of the world's most musical countries: Mali and Cuba.
The project "Mali-Cuba: Music Across Generations" in 2012 brought four
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La Linea London Latin Music Festival Returns in 2018 with Eliades Ochoa, Ariwo and more
date: 29 Nov 2017
"La Linea has spent years building an impressive international reputation as one of the world's most eclectic celebrations of Latin music" - Time Out
The London Latin Music
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Rumba group Muñequitos de Matanzas celebrate 65th anniversary
date: 22 Nov 2017
For 65 years now, Cuba's most important rumba group, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, has earned admiration with their drums, singing, and dance, in an all-encompassing art form.
They are celebrating these
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La Reyna y La Real: women and rappers against all odds
date: 22 Nov 2017
Yadira Pintado, La Real, is a native of the Havana neighborhood of Jesús María. She trained as a social worker. She studied psychology but in the second year she left
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Artist Choco receives prestigious Cuban National Visual Arts Award for 2017
date: 6 Nov 2017
Cuban artist Eduardo Roca Salazar, known as Choco by colleagues and the public that have followed his work, was awarded this week the National Prize for Visual Arts 2017.
Born in
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CD review: Playing Lecuona Featuring Chucho Valdés, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Michel Camilo
date: 3 Nov 2017
For many Cuban music fans, the name of Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963) remains obscure at best - outside of Latin America he is often thought of as an opportunist who used
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Cuban actor Rolando Nunez:The saddest thing is the cultural blockade
date: 2 Nov 2017
When we talk about the blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States, the economic and material nature of the effects are more evident, but the impact felt in the
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A Salsa music hug: Cuban record label promotes salsa collaboration with Puerto Rico
date: 2 Nov 2017
The Cuban record label Bis Music has produced a special collaboration between Cuba and Puerto Rico, resulting in a Latin Grammy nomination for the album by Puerto Rican producer Isidro
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Interview: Cuban ballet dancer Lisandra Gomez
date: 2 Nov 2017
Lisandra Gómez, first dancer of the Contemporary Ballet of Camagüey, was interviewed after rehearsal in October by Yuris Norido of CubaSi.cu.
In college Lisandra Gómez studied the technique and style of
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