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Cuban Government presents national program against racism and racial discrimination on TV

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/03/202030/06/2020

In November 2019 the Council of Ministers in Cuba approved a national program against racism…

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  • Cuban Film

National Film Award for Senel Paz, Strawberry & Chocolate screenwriter, and Francisco Prats

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 04/03/2020

Animation producer Francisco (Paco) Prats and screenwriter and professor Senel Paz have won the 2020…

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  • Cuban Art

Lesbia Vent Dumois wins Cuban National Visual Arts Prize

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202021/08/2020

The Cuban painter and printmaker Lesbia Vent Dumois has won Cuba’s most prestigious annual visual…

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  • Cuban Dance

Carlos Acosta begins his new role as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/01/202004/08/2020

In January 2020 Carlos began his first day at work as director of Birmingham Royal…

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Gente de Zona and the Miami cultural blockade

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/12/2019

A week ago, the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, asked that Cuban musicians be excluded…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban productions at the Havana Film Festival

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/12/201911/12/2019

This December 5-15 the annual International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana is…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuban government announces a national programme against racism and discrimination

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/12/201913/12/2019

At the meeting of the Council of Ministers in Cuba this November, a national programme…

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  • Cuban Architecture

La Habana, lo más grande: 500 year history of the city of Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/11/201904/08/2020

“LA HABANA, LO MÁS GRANDE” (“Havana, the greatest”) is the slogan being used in Cuba…

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  • Cuban Art

Havana and Trinidad become UNESCO Creative Cities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/11/201904/08/2020

This 30 October, the Cuban cities of Havana and Trinidad have been designated as UNESCO…

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  • Cuban Film

Ten times Havana took over the big screen – films which star the city itself

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/11/201919/12/2020

The city of Havana has been a muse, a protagonist and also a cliché in…

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  • News from Cuba

United States prohibits educational and cultural exchange with Cuban state representatives and institutions

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/11/201907/11/2019

As part of the growing aggressive wave of the administration of Donald Trump against Cuba,…

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  • Cuban Art

Who was Aponte?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/10/2019

José Antonio Aponte was a free black Cuban man of Yoruba origin born in the…

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  • Cuban Dance

Carlos Acosta on the extraordinary legacy of Alicia Alonso

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/10/201904/08/2020

Cuban dancer and director Carlos Acosta highlighted the extraordinary legacy of  Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso,…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuban Creole Cuisine declared National Cultural Heritage

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/10/201920/10/2019

The Commission for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, part of the National Heritage Council,…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba celebrates National Day of Culture

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/10/201920/10/2019

On 20 October Cuba celebrate their national day of culture ‘Jornada de la Cultura Cubana’.…

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