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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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Cuba’s Jazz Plaza 2021 goes online this January

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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”

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

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  • 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

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  • 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?

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  • 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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8 May declared Day of the Cuban son

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  • Posted on 18/10/2020

May 8 has been declared ‘Day of the Cuban Son’ in homage to this music-dance…

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Ten of our favourite new tracks in 2020 from the Cuban Egrem label – watch and listen now

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  • Posted on 17/10/202019/12/2020

From Cuban record label Egrem’s most popular tracks online this year – salsa timba, jazz,…

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Cuba to celebrate National Day of Culture 20 October

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  • Posted on 17/10/202007/11/2020

On 20 October each year Cuba celebrates their National Day of Culture ‘Jornada de la…

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