“LA HABANA, LO MÁS GRANDE” (“Havana, the greatest”) is the slogan being used in Cuba…
Category: Icons of Cuban Culture
As a major exhibition of Cuban poster art goes on display in London until January…
José Antonio Aponte was a free black Cuban man of Yoruba origin born in the…
On an August day in 1919, 100 years ago, in the small town of Santa…
Los Van Van is Cuba’s most famous dance music orchestra formed on December 4, 1969…
The work of Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz was declared National Cultural Heritage, an act that…
This year, in 2019 Cuba is celebrating 60 years of ICAIC, the institute for the…
Changüí, an ancient Cuban musical rhythm considered to be the first beginnings of the son,…
Nancy Morejón is the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba.…
by: Christopher P Baker for BBC Analies Gómez Coyula is deep into her third bowl…
Humberto Solás Borrego was born to a poor family in Havana Vieja (the capital’s Old…
Interview and report by: La Jiribilla, Cuba/ cubadebate Irakere celebrates 45 years of music this…
The Cuban National Music Award 2017 has been awarded to José Luis Cortés “El Tosco”,…
Nicolas Guillen was born 1902 in Camaguey, Cuba, and died 1989. He was an Afro…
The UNESCO Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage has decided this week to include "Punto Cubano" or "Punto Guajiro" (a sung genre of Cuban country music) in its representative list for 2017.
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