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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 Music

Cuban musicians nominated for Latin Grammys 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/10/202020/03/2021

Cuban music and musicians garnered most of the nominations in the 2020 Latin Grammy’s Best…

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  • Cuban Dance

Cuban Carlos Acosta receives Dance Magazine award in US

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/09/202023/09/2020

Dance Magazine, from the US, on 23 September recognized the solid international career of top…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban minister criticizes US media campaign against Cuban artists, especially musician Alexander Abreu

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/09/202024/09/2020

Cuba’s Minister for Culture, Alpidio Alonso, criticized US media campaign against Cuban artists including the…

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  • News from Cuba

Havana Club and Skepta

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/09/202023/09/2020

Havana Club has joined forces with the lyrical champion and top UK grime legend Skepta…

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  • Cuban Music

Concert for Cuba: A tribute to Cuban doctors

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/07/202021/07/2020

Cuban artists including Los Van Van and Alexander Abreu, plus US artists Tom Morello, Michael…

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  • Cuban Film

Cinema: Just what the doctor ordered

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 09/07/202010/07/2020

The Havana Film Festival (also known as the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema)…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban newsreels – a memory of the world

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/06/2020

This 6 June Cuba celebrated the 60th anniversary of its newsreels with film screenings on…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Cuban Natural and Cultural Heritage available to all in the fight against COVID-19 through culture

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/05/202017/07/2020

  Cuban artist and director of the Polymita Publishing House in Cuba, Julio A. Larramendi…

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  • News from Cuba

Singer from Bayamo Jose Alberto ‘the nightingale’ releases new song

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/05/202004/08/2020

Renowned Cuban music star José Alberto Tamayo Diaz a.k.a. “El Ruiseñor” (“nightingale”) releases his single  “Cualquiera…

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  • News from Cuba

“Becoming the antidote”: How artists in Cuba have played their part against Covid-19

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/05/202024/05/2021

Cuba’s cultural life seemed to be put on hold on 13 March due to threat…

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  • Cuban Music

Check out these 10 new Cuban music tracks and videos released during quarantine

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/05/202019/12/2020

Here are 10 diverse Cuban music tracks with videos, composed or released during this time…

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  • Cuban Art

Tamayo, art and the pandemic

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/04/202018/07/2020

Without abandoning his usual dose of humour, Cuban artist Reynerio Tamayo has been posting on…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban musicians offer concerts from home online, on radio and television

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 03/04/202004/08/2020

With the suspension of cultural activities in Cuba, as part of efforts to stem the…

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  • Cuban Film

Juan Padron, comic creator of Elpidio Valdes

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/03/202018/07/2020

Juan Padrón was a Cuban animation director and comic artist, best known as the creator…

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