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Cuban artists Wifredo Lam and Belkis Ayon in Whose tradition? Tate Liverpool 14 Nov 2021-Jan 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/03/202130/03/2021

14 Nov 2021 – Jan 2022 Art exhibition: Whose Tradition?, Tate Liverpool As part of…

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New documentary ‘Castro’s Spies’ to premiere online at GFF, 26 February – 1 March 2021

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202126/01/2021

Castro’s Spies is one of six films nominated for the prestigious Audience Award at the…

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  • Cuban Film

#CuarenCineCuba – Watch Cuban films – fiction and documentaries about Cuba – from home Part 2

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/11/202031/12/2020

We have selected 10 more feature films and documentaries from and about Cuba to watch…

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Cimafunk – 22 July 2021, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/07/2020

22 JULY 2021 London concert CIMAFUNK Cimafunk is a cimarrón, a free being defying classification, a…

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Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor – 22 April 2022, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/07/202030/03/2021

22 April 2022 (rescheduled from 7 May 2021) Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor, London…

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  • Cuban Dance

Learn Cuban salsa and other Cuban dance online during the pandemic

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 14/05/202006/02/2021

Missing your Cuban salsa classes while under lockdown? Some Cuban dance teachers all over the…

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  • Cuban Film

#CuarenCineCuba – Watch Cuban films – fiction and documentaries – from home

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/04/202019/12/2020

Here is our #CuarenCineCuba eclectic selection of 10 films – fiction and documentaries from and…

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  • Cuban Dance

Want to learn or improve your Cuban style dancing in 2020? List of classes here

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

Here are some of the many classes all over the country offering Cuban salsa or…

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Want to learn songs of the Cuban orishas?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/01/2020

The London Lucumi Choir is open for new members in January 2020. We are a…

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Yesterday 15 April marked 60 years since the US military invasion of Cuba at Playa Giron/Bay of Pigs defeated against the odds by Cubans. Cuban artists at the time responded after the event with some powerful works. Some of the famous paintings are on show in Havana via a virtual exhibition by Raul Martinez, Mariano Rodriguez and Servando Cabrera. #Cubanart #cubanartists #PlayaGiron
Happy birthday today to brilliant Cuban jazz pianist and composer Roberto Fonseca. If you haven't checked out his album 'Yesun' do so now! Looking forward to live concerts in the future. Check out a review of his album last year https://cuba50.org/2020/01/26/cd-review-roberto-fonseca-yesun-the-album-i-always-wanted-to-make/
The International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is commemorated every March 25, to pay tribute to all victims of slavery.
Cuban actor Mario Balmaseda has won the Cuban National Film Prize 2021. He has been a star of many great Cuban films such as 'One way or another' and 'The man from el Maisinicu' as well as a Brechtian theatre actor and dedicated to taking theatre to the remotest parts of the island.  #cubanfilm
To celebrate International Womens Day – meet ten Cuban women – actors, filmmakers, writers, musicians, dancers, directors – who have made waves in Cuban culture – but you may not have heard of.
On a day like today 20 February the wonderful Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer was born in 1927. He passed away 15 years ago but his memory lives on with so many great Cuban songs. He was a great singer of son but sang many boleros with buena vista social club. Which is your favourite Ibrahim Ferrer track?

Havana D’Primera: Me Dicen Cuba

Short doc on Cuban Art in London

Video of Cuban artist Manuel Mendive

Some Icons of Cuban Culture

  • Chucho Valdés looks back at 45 years of Irakere

    23/04/2018
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    24/10/2019
  • Alicia Alonso – Ballet

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

    06/06/2020
  • Nicolas Guillen: National Poet

    19/12/2017

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