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60 years of the Conjunto Folclorico Nacional de Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/01/2022

This year Cuba’s national folkloric group celebrates its 60th birthday and despite the restrictions of…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban composer José María Vitier is awarded the 2021 National Music Prize

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/01/202203/01/2022

The Cuban pianist, composer and arranger José María Vitier (Havana, January 7, 1954) was awarded…

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  • Cuban Dance

Watch 7 top Cuban salsa groups perform their latest tracks

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 31/12/2021

“Tira tu pasillo” translates roughly as “throw down your dance moves!” Watch this very recent…

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  • Past events

Roberto Fonseca: UK tour dates 19-24 April 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/12/202126/06/2022

Born in 1975 in Havana, Cuba, Roberto Fonseca has established himself as one of the…

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  • Cuban Art

Cuban artist Alberto Lescay receives the 2021 National Visual Arts award

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/12/202108/10/2022

Painter and sculptor from Santiago de Cuba, Alberto Lescay Merencio, has this week been awarded…

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  • Cuban Film

Short films bring humour, psychological terror and feminism at the Havana International Film festival

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2021

Short stories are part of the creative impulse to rethink the dynamics of the Latin…

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  • Interviews

“I want to contribute”: interview with young Cuban cultural professor and critic Ada Elena Lescay

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2021

For the young researcher and university professor from Santiago de Cuba, Ada Elena Lescay, the…

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  • Cuban Literature

Georgina Herrera, Cuban poet, la Eterna Cimarrona

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 14/12/2021

Georgina Herrera was a Cuban poet and radio scriptwriter, feminist and anti-racist. In Cuba she…

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  • Cuban Music

Silvio Rodríguez: “It was quite logical that expressions of exhaustion appeared in Cuba”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/12/2021

Interview by Claudio Vergara published by La Tercera, 27/11/21 Silvio Rodríguez’s 2021 diary has been…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more with less

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/11/2021

By M. Wesam Al Asali for The Conversation Around the world, there’s a conjoined crisis…

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  • Cuban Art

Yes to the Havana Biennial! Art floods Havana from November to April

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/202126/06/2022

More than 300 artists, gallery owners, promoters, critics and theorists from various disciplines from Latin…

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  • News from Cuba

Havana: one of the world’s most desirable cities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/2021

Havana ranked fourth in the category of Most Desirable Cities, in the Wanderlust Travel Awards…

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  • Past events

Havana Glasgow Film Festival 16-21 November 2021, Glasgow and online -win a free online pass!

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/11/202130/12/2021

You can win a free pass to view any of the online films in this…

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  • Past events

Film Screening: Fidel Up Close, 6 November 2021, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/11/202118/11/2021

You can catch this recent documentary in London at RichMix as part of the Alborada…

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Cuba’s National Day of Culture 20 October

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/202101/02/2026

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

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