The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC will host from May 8 to 20 of 2018 a festival dedicated to Cuban culture, the island's Ministry of Culture announced 6 December.
The UNESCO Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage has decided this week to include "Punto Cubano" or "Punto Guajiro" (a sung genre of Cuban country music) in its representative list for 2017.
A new film documents a unique project bringing together children from two of the world’s…
Armando Hart, a historic figure of the Cuban revolution who as education minister in the early 1960s oversaw a huge literacy campaign aimed at ensuring all Cubans could read and write, died 26 November at age 87.
“La Linea has spent years building an impressive international reputation as one of the world’s…
For 65 years now, Cuba's most important rumba group, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, has earned admiration with their drums, singing, and dance, in an all-encompassing art form.
Yadira Pintado, La Real, is a native of the Havana neighborhood of Jesús María. She…
Cuban record label promotes salsa collaboration with Puerto Rico with top Cuban singers Yumurí,Mayito Rivera, Haila, El Indio, Tania Pantoja and others
by: LaJiribilla.cu/presentecubanart.org 06/11/17 Cuban artist Eduardo Roca Salazar, known as Choco by colleagues and the…
For many Cuban music fans, the name of Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963) remains obscure at best – outside of Latin America he is often thought of as an opportunist who used Afro Cuban rhythms to spice up his many compositions.
When we talk about the blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States, the economic and material nature of the effects are more evident, but the impact felt in the cultural sphere more generally is immeasurable.
Lisandra Gómez, first dancer of the Contemporary Ballet of Camagüey, was interviewed after rehearsal in October by Yuris Norido of CubaSi.cu.
Overcoming near blindness and numerous other obstacles that would have crippled lesser people, Cuban dancer…
On October 20, the awards of the 4th Post-it Cuban Contemporary Art exhibition and competition were presented.
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