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“Art must overcome everything, culture is life” interview with Fatima Patterson on what theatre means to her

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Rafael Zarza wins Cuban National Visual Arts Prize 2020

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#CuarenCineCuba – Watch Cuban films – fiction and documentaries about Cuba – from home Part 2

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DJ Green Papi’s 5 Cuban music tracks you must listen to and why

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Cuban musicians nominated for Latin Grammys 2020

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Arsenio Rodriguez – godfather of Son Montuno, root of salsa

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“Becoming the antidote”: How artists in Cuba have played their part against Covid-19

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“Art must overcome everything, culture is life” interview with Fatima Patterson on what theatre means to her

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/02/202107/02/2021

As Fatima Patterson, Cuban theatre actor, playwright and director, 2017 Cuban Theatre National Award winner,…

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Fátima Patterson – theatre actor, director and playwright

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/02/202107/02/2021

When talking about theatre in Cuba and the African influence on the Cuban stage, we…

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Having a good time – review of CD Pupy y Los que Son Son: Pasandola Bien

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/01/2021

Cuban salsa maestro César Pedroso, otherwise known as Pupy, knows his audience. His tumbaos, the…

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Cuba’s Jazz Plaza 2021 goes online this January

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202123/01/2021

This January is Cuba’s 36th Jazz Plaza Festival and not wanting to cancel it due…

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New documentary ‘Castro’s Spies’ to premiere online at GFF, 26 February – 1 March 2021

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202126/01/2021

Castro’s Spies is one of six films nominated for the prestigious Audience Award at the…

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Cuban cartoonist Ares wins the 2020 national comedy award, together with Juana Bacallao

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/12/2020

The Cuban illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Arístides Hernández (Ares) in December received the 2020 National…

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Annual Latin American Cinema Festival still takes flight in Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2020

“Cuban cinema is trying, in the midst of so many setbacks, to take flight.” These…

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Rafael Zarza wins Cuban National Visual Arts Prize 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/12/202019/12/2020

If there is an image of a bull in a Cuban painting – often portrayed…

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Interview with two young Cuban dancers about “dancing like in another dimension”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/11/2020

Mario and Víctor Varela are brothers and co-workers. For some years now, they have danced…

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  • Cuban Music

Huberal Herrera Lescano and Edesio Alejandro jointly win the Cuban National Music Prize 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/11/202019/12/2020

This week the jury of the 2020 National Music Award, made up of Digna Guerra,…

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#CuarenCineCuba – Watch Cuban films – fiction and documentaries about Cuba – from home Part 2

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/11/202031/12/2020

We have selected 10 more feature films and documentaries from and about Cuba to watch…

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DJ Green Papi’s 5 Cuban music tracks you must listen to and why

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/11/202019/12/2020

Living in London originally from eastern Cuba, Ernesto J. Green Rután, known as DJ Green…

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CineCuba London Online Screening: Herencia, Thu 29 October 2020, 7pm

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  • Posted on 26/10/202019/12/2020

CineCuba (Cuba Solidarity North London) and Sands Cinema Club present: ‘Herencia’ (Inheritance) (2019) Director Ana…

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Havana Glasgow Film Festival ONLINE 10-15 November 2020 with pre-fest events from 28 October

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  • Posted on 26/10/202019/12/2020

Havana Glasgow Film Festival (10 – 15 Nov 2020) goes online this year and presents…

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What is the impact of the US blockade on culture in Cuba?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/10/202019/12/2020

Fernando Leon Jacomino, Cuba’s Vice Minister for Culture, spoke to an international conference online this…

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On a day like today 20 February the wonderful Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer was born in 1927. He passed away 15 years ago but his memory lives on with so many great Cuban songs. He was a great singer of son but sang many boleros with buena vista social club. Which is your favourite Ibrahim Ferrer track?
Happy Birthday to the FAC Fábrica de Arte Cubano - in Havana - 7 years today!
Fatima Patterson is a top Cuban theatre actor, director and playwright, celebrating her 70th birthday this week. With her company Macuba she has dedicated the last 30 years to making amazing theatre embedded physically, narratively and spiritually in her home town of Santiago de Cuba. In this recent interview she talks about her approach to theatre, her themes, and her view on the way forward for artists out of the pandemic.
“Con todos, y para el bien de todos” (With everyone and for the benefit of everyone)
New documentary 'Castro's Spies' will make its debut in the UK screened online from 26 February as part of the Glasgow Film Festival.
From 19-24 January Cuba's world-renowned festival #JazzPlaza2021 is offering many hours of live performances, descargas, master classes and discussions online. What is on offer is incredible so if you are a Cuban music or jazz fan you must feast on it now!

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