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Online screening: documentary ‘Herencia’, Brighton Tuesday 19 April 2022, 7.30pm

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/04/2022

Cuba Solidarity Campaign Brighton present: ‘Herencia’ (Inheritance) (2019) Director Ana Hurtado. A documentary by a…

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  • Education in Cuba

“The Literacy Campaign was a cultural revolution” interview with Cuban Minister for Education

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/01/2022

December 2021 marked the 60th anniversary of the declaration of Cuba as a territory free…

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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 Art

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

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/202114/11/2021

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

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Cuba’s National Day of Culture 20 October

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/2021

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

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba marks 135 years since the abolition of slavery

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/2021

On 18 October 2021 Cuba marked 135 years since the abolition of slavery on the…

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  • News from Cuba

2021 Community Culture award winners announced in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/2021

The singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, the group Teatro Los Elementos and the project Orquesta de Guitarras…

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  • Cuban Art

Casas de Cultura in Cuba: “Empowering communities to access, consume and create culture”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/202119/10/2021

Interview with Agustín Adrián Pérez, Vice-President of the National Council of Casas de Cultura, published…

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  • Reviews

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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  • Cuban Film

Cuban filmmaker Ernesto Daranas working on documentary mini-series ‘Indigenous Cuba’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/05/2021

After the national and international success of Conducta (2014), all of Cuban filmmaker Ernesto Daranas’s…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Meet 10 Cuban women who have made waves in culture

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/03/202106/07/2021

To celebrate International Womens Day – meet ten Cuban women – actors, filmmakers, writers, dancers,…

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  • News from Cuba

What is the impact of the US blockade on culture in Cuba?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/10/202019/12/2020

Fernando Leon Jacomino, Cuba’s Vice Minister for Culture, spoke to an international conference online this…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba to celebrate National Day of Culture 20 October

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/10/202007/11/2020

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

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Happy International Workers Day 1 May! Here are some great Cuban graphic posters from the 1970s produced to mark the day, courtesy of Jose Marti national library archive in Havana.
A great loss for Cuban culture today with the news Jose Luis Cortes, well-loved Cuban musician and music innovator, leader of 90s dance music group NG Ia Banda and architect of timba, has passed away at the age of 70 in Havana. RIP El Tosco
UK tour 8 April - 21 May - Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas pairs up with his former mentor, grammy-nominated Eduardo Martin, both amazing Cuban acoustic guitarists to perform their own mix of jazz, flamenco, pop, Afro and traditional Cuban pieces.
Thursday 28 April London - UK Premiere of new feature film Mambo Man, set in Bayamo in rural eastern Cuba, with Cuban actors, the story follows the highs and lows of a local entrepreneur. Part moral tale, part musical showcase, you can’t resist the sumptuous cinematography and country music.
Catch a screening 19 April with Cuba Solidarity Brighton UK of 'Herencia’ (Inheritance) (2019) Director Ana Hurtado. A documentary by a Spanish filmmaker focusing on Cuba’s African heritage, with interviews with Cuban writers, artists, musicians and dancers.
London Tuesday 12 April 8pm - Cuban cinema fans can catch a special screening of the 1978 Cuban feature film ‘El Brigadista’ by director Octavio Cortazar, which centres on the trials and tribulations of a 15 year old sent to teach people in the countryside during the Literacy Campaign across the island in 1961. In person and online - book your places now. Hosted by @sandsfilmscinemaclub and Cuba Solidarity Campaign North London.

Havana D’Primera: Me Dicen Cuba

Short doc on Cuban Art in London

Video of Cuban artist Manuel Mendive

Some Icons of Cuban Culture

  • Cuban newsreels – a memory of the world

    06/06/2020
  • Nicolas Guillen: National Poet

    19/12/2017
  • Nancy Morejon, National Poet

    03/12/2018
  • Chucho Valdés looks back at 45 years of Irakere

    23/04/2018
  • Who was Aponte?

    24/10/2019

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