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  • Cuban Music

Interview with Cuban singer songwriter Silvio Rodríguez: “I am from a marginalized country persecuted for being rebellious”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/06/202506/06/2025

Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio is set to return to Chile to perform later this year. In…

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  • Cuban Film

Actor Mirtha Ibarra winner of Cuban National Film Award 2025 talks about her work

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 09/05/202522/07/2025

This March Mirtha Ibarra, internationally famous for her roles in popular movies ‘Strawberry and Chocolate’…

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  • Interviews

Cuban cinema: return to utopias

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 03/11/2024

In conversation with Alexis Triana president of ICAIC Through 2024 the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic…

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  • Interviews

Calendario: Connecting with young people through TV drama

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/07/202411/07/2024

The Cuban TV drama series Calendario (translating as Calendar or Diary), directed by Magda González…

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  • Cuban Dance

Viengsay Valdés: the balance between tradition and renewal, office and stage at Cuba’s National Ballet

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/11/2023

The director and prima ballerina of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), Viengsay Valdés, seeks…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban duo Buena Fe sings of love and reconciliation, affirms musician Israel Rojas

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/05/202307/07/2023

This May Cuban group Buena Fe while touring Spain has been subjected to insults and…

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  • Cuban Film

“True Truths” Interview with Magda González Grau, director of Cuban TV show Calendario

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/03/202208/03/2022

Since its initial broadcast, on Sunday, January 9, the [Cuban] television series Calendar has stolen the affection…

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  • Education in Cuba

“The Literacy Campaign was a cultural revolution” interview with Cuban Minister for Education

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/01/2022

December 2021 marked the 60th anniversary of the declaration of Cuba as a territory free…

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  • Interviews

“I want to contribute”: interview with young Cuban cultural professor and critic Ada Elena Lescay

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2021

For the young researcher and university professor from Santiago de Cuba, Ada Elena Lescay, the…

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  • Cuban Music

Silvio Rodríguez: “It was quite logical that expressions of exhaustion appeared in Cuba”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/12/2021

Interview by Claudio Vergara published by La Tercera, 27/11/21 Silvio Rodríguez’s 2021 diary has been…

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  • Cuban Art

Casas de Cultura in Cuba: “Empowering communities to access, consume and create culture”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/202115/08/2022

Interview with Agustín Adrián Pérez, Vice-President of the National Council of Casas de Cultura, published…

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  • Interviews

“An artist must work for human improvement” Cuban actor on the TV soap ‘Looking back’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 09/09/2021

So says Roberto Salomón, a popular Cuban actor who has made a great impact in…

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  • Cuban Music

The US blockade is not against the government of Cuba, but its people: Israel Rojas, Cuban singer

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/05/202106/07/2021

Interview with Buena Fe singer Israel Rojas, from CubaDebate. On a computer screen you can…

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  • Cuban Film

Young Cuban filmmaker Carla Valdés interviewed about her work and the impact of the new Development Fund in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/03/202130/03/2021

Interview with the young filmmaker, Carla Valdes, author of two of the winning projects of…

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  • Cuban Theatre

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

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/02/202101/01/2022

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

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