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JAZZ PLAZA – Cuba’s annual international jazz festival in person and online 18-23 January 2022

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  • Posted on 23/01/202223/01/2022

Six days of jazz – concerts, colloquiums, conferences, video presentations, following all covid-19 rules, Jazz…

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  • Cuban Dance

60 years of the Conjunto Folclorico Nacional de Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/01/2022

This year Cuba’s national folkloric group celebrates its 60th birthday and despite the restrictions of…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban composer José María Vitier is awarded the 2021 National Music Prize

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/01/202203/01/2022

The Cuban pianist, composer and arranger José María Vitier (Havana, January 7, 1954) was awarded…

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  • Cuban Art

Cuban artist Alberto Lescay receives the 2021 National Visual Arts award

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/12/202101/01/2022

Painter and sculptor from Santiago de Cuba, Alberto Lescay Merencio, has this week been awarded…

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  • Cuban Film

Short films bring humour, psychological terror and feminism at the Havana International Film festival

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2021

Short stories are part of the creative impulse to rethink the dynamics of the Latin…

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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

Yes to the Havana Biennial! Art floods Havana from November to April

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/202114/11/2021

More than 300 artists, gallery owners, promoters, critics and theorists from various disciplines from Latin…

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  • News from Cuba

Havana: one of the world’s most desirable cities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/2021

Havana ranked fourth in the category of Most Desirable Cities, in the Wanderlust Travel Awards…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba marks 135 years since the abolition of slavery

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/2021

On 18 October 2021 Cuba marked 135 years since the abolition of slavery on the…

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  • News from Cuba

2021 Community Culture award winners announced in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/2021

The singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, the group Teatro Los Elementos and the project Orquesta de Guitarras…

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  • News from Cuba

Silvio Rodriguez to donate funds for medical supplies for Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/10/202119/10/2021

Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez announced in September that he would donate all the income he…

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  • News from Cuba

Timbalaye festival in Cuba: women in rumba + concert video

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/09/2021

This September the 13th edition of Cuba’s festival of rumba known as Timbalaye Festival took…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/09/2021

Despite all the difficulties of preparing for and participating in sport during the pandemic, and…

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  • News from Cuba

Silvio Rodriguez and the lynching of Cuban artists by social media

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/09/2021

From Granma.cu. 8 Sept 21 The lynching of Cuban artists by social media rears its…

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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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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.

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