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Category: Interviews

Interviews with Cuban culture icons

  • 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 19/10/202119/10/2021

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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  • Cuban Dance

Interview with two young Cuban dancers about “dancing like in another dimension”

  • by cuba50
  • 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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  • Cuban Dance

A conversation with Cuba’s 2020 National Dance Award winner Johannes Garcia, maestro of AfroCuban dance theatre

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/10/202023/10/2020

Johannes García, director of the Cuban Traditional Dances company (Compañía de Danzas Tradicionales JJ), will…

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  • Cuban Theatre

Art on the move – interview with a young Cuban community arts worker in Venezuela

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/10/202011/10/2020

Cuban art instructor Yanila Rodríguez Gómez has had to face the pandemic alongside Venezuelans, which…

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  • Interviews

Wasp Network: interview with director of the new film about the Cuban Five (+watch trailer)

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/06/202011/10/2020

The feature film ‘Wasp Network’ by French director Olivier Assayas, has just been released this…

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  • Interviews

“In these times art has been vital for many people” Cuban artist Glenda Salazar interviewed

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/06/202024/04/2021

In Cuba, Glenda Salazar (Holguín, 1982) is one of the most outstanding creators of Land…

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  • Cuban Music

For International Jazz Day – the legacy of Irakere + young Cuban jazz stars looking to the future

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/04/202018/07/2020

To celebrate #InternationalJazzDay this 30 April – watch this interview with Chucho Valdes — Cuban…

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Happy International Workers Day 1 May! Here are some great Cuban graphic posters from the 1970s produced to mark the day, courtesy of Jose Marti national library archive in Havana.
A great loss for Cuban culture today with the news Jose Luis Cortes, well-loved Cuban musician and music innovator, leader of 90s dance music group NG Ia Banda and architect of timba, has passed away at the age of 70 in Havana. RIP El Tosco
UK tour 8 April - 21 May - Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas pairs up with his former mentor, grammy-nominated Eduardo Martin, both amazing Cuban acoustic guitarists to perform their own mix of jazz, flamenco, pop, Afro and traditional Cuban pieces.
Thursday 28 April London - UK Premiere of new feature film Mambo Man, set in Bayamo in rural eastern Cuba, with Cuban actors, the story follows the highs and lows of a local entrepreneur. Part moral tale, part musical showcase, you can’t resist the sumptuous cinematography and country music.
Catch a screening 19 April with Cuba Solidarity Brighton UK of 'Herencia’ (Inheritance) (2019) Director Ana Hurtado. A documentary by a Spanish filmmaker focusing on Cuba’s African heritage, with interviews with Cuban writers, artists, musicians and dancers.
London Tuesday 12 April 8pm - Cuban cinema fans can catch a special screening of the 1978 Cuban feature film ‘El Brigadista’ by director Octavio Cortazar, which centres on the trials and tribulations of a 15 year old sent to teach people in the countryside during the Literacy Campaign across the island in 1961. In person and online - book your places now. Hosted by @sandsfilmscinemaclub and Cuba Solidarity Campaign North London.

Havana D’Primera: Me Dicen Cuba

Short doc on Cuban Art in London

Video of Cuban artist Manuel Mendive

Some Icons of Cuban Culture

  • Cuban newsreels – a memory of the world

    06/06/2020
  • Nicolas Guillen: National Poet

    19/12/2017
  • Nancy Morejon, National Poet

    03/12/2018
  • Chucho Valdés looks back at 45 years of Irakere

    23/04/2018
  • Who was Aponte?

    24/10/2019

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