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  • Cuban Theatre

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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  • Cuban Art

The Cimarrón: a Cuban monument of resistance to slavery

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/06/202019/12/2020

From the town of El Cobre in Eastern Cuba, about 15km out of Santiago de…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Arsenio Rodriguez – godfather of Son Montuno, root of salsa

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/06/202024/05/2021

Cuban musician, composer and bandleader, Arsenio Rodriguez was born in Güira de Macurijes, Matanzas 30…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban newsreels – a memory of the world

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/06/2020

This 6 June Cuba celebrated the 60th anniversary of its newsreels with film screenings on…

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  • Cuban Film

Juan Padron, comic creator of Elpidio Valdes

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/03/202018/07/2020

Juan Padrón was a Cuban animation director and comic artist, best known as the creator…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Who was Jose Marti?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/01/202027/01/2022

Jose Martí (1853-1895) was a Cuban poet who played an instrumental role in the movement…

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  • Cuban Architecture

La Habana, lo más grande: 500 year history of the city of Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/11/201904/08/2020

“LA HABANA, LO MÁS GRANDE” (“Havana, the greatest”) is the slogan being used in Cuba…

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  • Cuban Design

Poster Art – a visual chronicle of the Revolution

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/201904/08/2020

As a major exhibition of Cuban poster art goes on display in London until January…

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  • Cuban Art

Who was Aponte?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/10/2019

José Antonio Aponte was a free black Cuban man of Yoruba origin born in the…

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  • Cuban Music

Benny Moré – a hero for all Cubans

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/08/201904/08/2020

On an August day in 1919, 100 years ago, in the small town of Santa…

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  • Cuban Music

Juan Formell’s musical legacy and 50 Years of Los Van Van

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 25/07/201904/08/2020

Los Van Van is Cuba’s most famous dance music orchestra formed on December 4, 1969…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

The works of Fernando Ortiz are declared National Heritage in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/07/201904/08/2019

The work of Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz was declared National Cultural Heritage, an act that…

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  • Cuban Film

ICAIC: sixty years of industry and art in Cuban film

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/03/201904/08/2020

This year, in 2019 Cuba is celebrating 60 years of ICAIC, the institute for the…

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  • Cuban Music

Changüí is declared cultural heritage of the Cuban nation

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/12/201804/08/2020

Changüí, an ancient Cuban musical rhythm considered to be the first beginnings of the son,…

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  • Cuban Literature

Nancy Morejon, National Poet

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 03/12/201802/08/2020

Nancy Morejón is the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba.…

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