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Win an all day pass to the Havana to Londres music festival – Saturday 7 March 2020 – with Havana D’Primera + more

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  • Posted on 21/02/202011/03/2020

We have a super hot all day/evening pass for the Cuban dance and music festival…

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Sustainable Havana and the Master Plan

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/02/202003/08/2020

It’s a cliché of foreign news reports about the island that Havana is literally “crumbling”,…

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Ran Kan Kan + Alma del Tambor, Saturday 28 March 2020, Oxford

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/01/202010/04/2020

Alma de Tambor (Soul of the drum) is a female percussion and vocals project under the…

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Cine Cuba Programme February-December 2020, Manchester

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/01/202019/12/2020

New Cuban film club in Manchester presents documentaries and feature films from and about Cuba:…

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Alexander Abreu and Havana D’Primera at Havana to Londres music festival – Saturday 7 March 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/01/202011/03/2020

Join us for an outstanding feast of salsa dancing, amazing CONCERT and dance WORKSHOPS delivered…

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CD Review: Roberto Fonseca: Yesun “The album I always wanted to make”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/01/202018/07/2020

The first track on Roberto Fonseca’s 2001 breakthrough album ‘No Limit’ was dedicated to Yemaya,…

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Who was Jose Marti?

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  • Posted on 26/01/202027/01/2022

Jose Martí (1853-1895) was a Cuban poet who played an instrumental role in the movement…

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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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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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Live poetry: Fail Better 2020: Che Guevara,  16 March, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/01/202010/04/2020

A look inside the little green notebook of Che Guevara – the poet that never…

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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 15/01/202030/12/2021

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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Review of ‘Herencia’ documentary on Cuba’s African heritage

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/01/202024/09/2020

When Spanish journalist Ana Hurtado went to Cuba for the first time a few years…

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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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Special Cuba50 offer on tickets for Eliades Ochoa concert in London 26 February 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/12/201926/02/2020

The legendary Cuban musician Eliades Ochoa is set to perform at London’s Barbican on 26…

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