• Facebook
  • Instagram
Search

Cuba 50

Celebrating Cuban Culture

Menu
Skip to content
  • What’s On
  • News
  • Icons of Cuban Culture
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

Category: News from Cuba

  • Cuban Film

Actor Mario Balmaseda wins Cuban National Film Award 2021

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/03/202113/03/2021

In March, it was reported that the 2021 Cuban National Film Award is to be…

Read More
  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Meet 10 Cuban women who have made waves in culture

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/03/202106/07/2021

To celebrate International Womens Day – meet ten Cuban women – actors, filmmakers, writers, dancers,…

Read More
  • News from Cuba

Yipsi Moreno and the force of women in Cuban sports

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/03/2021

In the run up to celebrate International Women’s Day (8 March) the press and media…

Read More
  • Cuban Design

Cuban graphic posters Vs. Covid-19 on show

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/02/202124/05/2021

In January 2021 an exhibition of new posters responding to Covid-19, and inspired by well-known…

Read More
  • News from Cuba

Arte Plaza, new project of the cultural and creative industries in Camagüey, Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/02/2021

Arte Plaza is the name of the creative industries project currently being promoted by the…

Read More
  • 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,…

Read More
  • Cuban Music

Cuba’s Jazz Plaza 2021 goes online this January

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202123/01/2021

This January is Cuba’s 36th Jazz Plaza Festival and not wanting to cancel it due…

Read More
  • Cuban Art

Cuban cartoonist Ares wins the 2020 national comedy award, together with Juana Bacallao

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/12/2020

The Cuban illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Arístides Hernández (Ares) in December received the 2020 National…

Read More
  • Cuban Film

Annual Latin American Cinema Festival still takes flight in Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2020

“Cuban cinema is trying, in the midst of so many setbacks, to take flight.” These…

Read More
  • Cuban Art

Rafael Zarza wins Cuban National Visual Arts Prize 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/12/202024/05/2021

If there is an image of a bull in a Cuban painting – often portrayed…

Read More
  • Cuban Music

Huberal Herrera Lescano and Edesio Alejandro jointly win the Cuban National Music Prize 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/11/202019/12/2020

This week the jury of the 2020 National Music Award, made up of Digna Guerra,…

Read More
  • News from Cuba

What is the impact of the US blockade on culture in Cuba?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/10/202019/12/2020

Fernando Leon Jacomino, Cuba’s Vice Minister for Culture, spoke to an international conference online this…

Read More
  • Cuban Music

8 May declared Day of the Cuban son

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/10/2020

May 8 has been declared ‘Day of the Cuban Son’ in homage to this music-dance…

Read More
  • News from Cuba

Cuba to celebrate National Day of Culture 20 October

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/10/202007/11/2020

On 20 October each year Cuba celebrates their National Day of Culture ‘Jornada de la…

Read More
  • News from Cuba

National Award honours cultural work in Cuban communities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/10/202018/10/2020

To recognize the projects and initiatives that promote artistic development and the rescue of Cuban…

Read More

Posts pagination

Previous Page Page 1 … Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 … Page 13 Next Page

Subscribe to Cuba50 Email Newsletter

Subscribe to our bi-monthly email newsletter, a round up of the latest cultural news from Cuba and events coming up around the UK.

SUBSCRIBE

Sections

  • Cuban Architecture
  • Cuban Art
  • Cuban Dance
  • Cuban Design
  • Cuban Film
  • Cuban Literature
  • Cuban Music
  • Cuban Theatre
  • Education in Cuba
  • Icons of Cuban Culture
  • Interviews
  • News archive 2009-2018
  • News from Cuba
  • Past events
  • Reviews
  • Uncategorized
  • What's On

Follow Cuba50 on Facebook

Follow Cuba50 on Facebook

Videospot for Screen Cuba film festival 15-28 March 2026

Shop

Support Music Fund for Cuba charity

Travel to Cuba

Advertise

Want to see your advert here?
Contact us now 

Havana D'Primera: Me Dicen Cuba

Watch Roberto Fonseca live

Video about Cuban artist Belkis Ayon

Some Icons of Cuban Culture

  • Poster Art – a visual chronicle of the Revolution

    13/11/2019
  • Chucho Valdés looks back at 45 years of Irakere

    23/04/2018
  • Who was Aponte?

    24/10/2019
  • Alicia Alonso – Ballet

    31/10/2017
  • Cuban newsreels – a memory of the world

    06/06/2020

Cuba50 recommends

  • CD Review: Eternamente Omara

    01/11/2025
  • Audience review of ‘Nutcracker in Havana’ by Acosta Danza

    09/05/2025
  • Review: Cimafunk: Paʼ Tu Cuerpa

    27/02/2025
  • Review: Grupo Irakere

    18/02/2024
  • Cuban culture books – literature and poetry

    20/11/2023

Tags

Acosta Danza Afro cuban Jazz Art Buena Vista Social Club caribbean caribbean-cinema caribbean-film Carlos Acosta Choco Chucho Valdes Cinema colonialism competition cuba Cuba and environment Cuban Architecture Cuban Art Cuban artist Cuban ballet Cuban Cinema cubancinema Cuban community arts Cuban culture Cuban Dance Cuban Design Cuban Electronic music cubanfilm Cuban Icons archive Cuban jazz Cuban Literature Cuban Music Cuban painting Cuban photography Cuban poetry Cuban rap Cuban rumba Cuban salsa Cuban son Cuban Theatre cuban timba Cuban trova Cuban TV cuban writers Dance Diversity in Cuba Eliades Ochoa environment exhibitions Havana Havana500 icaic Icons archive latin-american-cinema latin-american-film london-film-festival Manuel Mendive Music nancy morejon news Nicolas Guillen Nueva Trova olympics Omara Portuondo painting paris-2024 photography poetry Silvio Rodriguez son Tomas Gutierrez Alea Top 5 or 10 TV in Cuba US Blockade against Cuba world-history

Follow us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • What’s On
  • News
  • Icons of Cuban Culture
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
×
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Cuba 50
    • Join 72 other subscribers.
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Cuba 50
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

You must be logged in to post a comment.