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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 03/12/201819/09/2025

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

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Cuba’s communist ice cream cathedral

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 09/08/201819/09/2018

by: Christopher P Baker for BBC Analies Gómez Coyula is deep into her third bowl…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Humberto Solas

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/07/201814/08/2018

Humberto Solás Borrego was born to a poor family in Havana Vieja (the capital’s Old…

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  • Cuban Music

Chucho Valdés looks back at 45 years of Irakere

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/04/201804/08/2020

Interview and report by: La Jiribilla, Cuba/ cubadebate Irakere celebrates 45 years of music this…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban National Music Award for Jose Luis Cortes, architect of timba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/01/201818/10/2018

The Cuban National Music Award 2017 has been awarded to José Luis Cortés “El Tosco”,…

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  • Cuban Literature

Nicolas Guillen: National Poet

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/12/201708/07/2022

Nicolás Guillén was born on 10 July 1902 in Camagüey, Cuba, and died in Havana…

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  • Cuban Music

Punto Cubano included on UNESCO's list as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/12/201718/10/2018

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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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Wifredo Lam

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 14/11/201711/09/2020

‘My painting is an act of decolonization not in a physical sense, but in a…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Alicia Alonso – Ballet

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 31/10/201721/12/2020

Overcoming near blindness and numerous other obstacles that would have crippled lesser people, Cuban dancer…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 27/04/201624/09/2018

Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt examines how, from the early days of the Revolution, culture and participation in the arts was prioritised for all

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

What is more Cuban than the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/09/201519/11/2018

What is more Cuban than the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre?

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