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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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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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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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“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

Cuban Legend Adalberto Álvarez Dies at 72

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 04/09/202118/10/2021

Celebrated Cuban composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor, Adalberto Álvarez died on September 1, 2021 of…

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  • Cuban Art

Havana Art Biennial: November 2021-April 2022 announced

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 27/08/2021

Designed like a piece of art in itself, whose process is as important as the…

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  • Cuban Music

The Bolero is declared National Cultural Heritage in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/08/202126/06/2022

The bolero, a vocal, instrumental and danceable genre of the song movement in Cuba, has…

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  • Cuban Music

Celebrations for the centenary of Cuban musician Ñico Rojas

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/07/202101/01/2022

August 3 marks the centenary of the birth of the Cuban musician José Antonio Rojas,…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuban artists under pressure

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/07/202130/07/2021

An editorial from Cuban press on the island CubaSi.cu on 26 July 2021 Time after…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US government-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/07/202130/07/2021

By Max Blumenthal for The Grayzone Painting itself as a grassroots collective of artists fighting…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba Solidarity Campaign statement on the current situation in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/07/202126/11/2021

Statement 12 July 2021. The Cuba Solidarity Campaign UK calls on the US government to…

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  • Cuban Art

Imprint of a generation

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/07/202106/07/2021

Cuban art students raise their voices through their works, against the economic blockade imposed on…

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  • Cuban Architecture

45 years of Cuba’s University of the Arts (ISA)

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/06/202125/06/2021

The Cuban Higher Institute of Art (ISA), since 2013 known as the University of the…

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