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Havana Art Biennial: November 2021-April 2022 announced

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 27/08/2021

Designed like a piece of art in itself, whose process is as important as the…

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  • Cuban Music

The Bolero is declared National Cultural Heritage in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/08/202126/06/2022

The bolero, a vocal, instrumental and danceable genre of the song movement in Cuba, has…

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Celebrations for the centenary of Cuban musician Ñico Rojas

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/07/202101/01/2022

August 3 marks the centenary of the birth of the Cuban musician José Antonio Rojas,…

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  • Cuban Film

Cuban Olympic legend Juantorena’s ‘Running for the Revolution’ released

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/07/202102/10/2022

‘Running for the Revolution’ is a new documentary film that chronicles the life of Olympic athletics…

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Cuba Music and Revolution – Culture clash in Havana Cuba: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/07/202130/07/2021

Review of CD: Cuba Music and Revolution – Culture clash in Havana Cuba: Experiments in…

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Cuban artists under pressure

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/07/202130/07/2021

An editorial from Cuban press on the island CubaSi.cu on 26 July 2021 Time after…

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Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US government-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/07/202130/07/2021

By Max Blumenthal for The Grayzone Painting itself as a grassroots collective of artists fighting…

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Review of ‘The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 27/07/202130/07/2021

The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics2nd edition, Duke University PressEditors: Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo…

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Cuba Solidarity Campaign statement on the current situation in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/07/202126/11/2021

Statement 12 July 2021. The Cuba Solidarity Campaign UK calls on the US government to…

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  • Cuban Music

Music between Cuba and West Africa

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/07/2021

Elina Djebbari discusses musical exchanges between newly independent African states and Cuba in the 1960s…

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  • Cuban Art

Imprint of a generation

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/07/202106/07/2021

Cuban art students raise their voices through their works, against the economic blockade imposed on…

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  • Cuban Film

Havana-Glasgow Film Festival, 16-21 November 2021, Glasgow

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/07/202130/12/2021

Havana-Glasgow Film Festival: Extraordinary Cuba Part II Now in its 7th year, the annual festival…

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  • Cuban Literature

‘A Miniature Garden’ New book of poetry from Cuban poet Anna Lidia Vega

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/07/202130/07/2021

Review of A Miniature Garden / Un Jardin en Miniature, Poems by Anna Lidia Vega…

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Curated by Carlos – Triple Bill – 4-6 November 2021, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/06/202130/12/2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet presents a tantalising triple bill, including two recently premiered works and the…

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  • Cuban Architecture

45 years of Cuba’s University of the Arts (ISA)

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/06/202125/06/2021

The Cuban Higher Institute of Art (ISA), since 2013 known as the University of the…

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