The Jazz Plaza International Festival, now moved from December to January 16-21, is taking place at the Casas de Cultura HQ, in Havana's Vedado and many other Casas de Cultura in the capital and also at the Iris Club in Santiago de Cuba. The event, presided over by Chucho Valdés and Bobby Carcassés, has international guests such as Diego El Cigala.
Category: News archive 2009-2018
'Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano' was a series of cinematic newsreels produced from 1960 to 1990 by the Cuban film Institute ICAIC. The weekly news programme covering major local and global events would be shown before film screenings in the capital, Havana, and in towns and villages around the island.
Many of those 1,493 newsreels could just be derided as propaganda, but they pushed the limits of news, of visual storytelling that have left a legacy.
Are you going to be in Cuba in 2018? Here are some of the main cultural events due to take place during the coming year
'JOY' a post coitus concert is a one woman theatrical spectacle, written and performed by Dina Gordon, who was born in Santiago de Cuba, combining electronic music with lyrical prose, to deal with the politics of heritage and sexuality, with a specific focus on the African-caribbean experience in the western world. the show is presented by collective All Good Artists Are Dead and is part the Vault festival in London.
The jury of the National Prize for Cultural Heritage for a Life's Work 2017 composed of Eusebio Leal Spengler, José Linares Ferrera, Daniel Taboada Espiniella, Isabel Rigol Savio and Jesús Gómez Cairo, decided to give the award to the architect Iran Millán Cuétara.
What happens when the loss of a king's son is compared to the loss of a shepherd's son? What happens when different social classes share the same feelings in different contexts and environments?
The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC will host from May 8 to 20 of 2018 a festival dedicated to Cuban culture, the island's Ministry of Culture announced 6 December.
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.
Armando Hart, a historic figure of the Cuban revolution who as education minister in the early 1960s oversaw a huge literacy campaign aimed at ensuring all Cubans could read and write, died 26 November at age 87.
For 65 years now, Cuba's most important rumba group, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, has earned admiration with their drums, singing, and dance, in an all-encompassing art form.
For many Cuban music fans, the name of Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963) remains obscure at best – outside of Latin America he is often thought of as an opportunist who used Afro Cuban rhythms to spice up his many compositions.
When we talk about the blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States, the economic and material nature of the effects are more evident, but the impact felt in the cultural sphere more generally is immeasurable.
Lisandra Gómez, first dancer of the Contemporary Ballet of Camagüey, was interviewed after rehearsal in October by Yuris Norido of CubaSi.cu.
On October 20, the awards of the 4th Post-it Cuban Contemporary Art exhibition and competition were presented.
The Casa de las Américas in Havana has just been awarded the UNESCO-Unam Jaime Torres Bodet' Prize in social sciences, humanities and art, according to Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO.
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