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Trova – The Cuban sound of voice and guitar

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/08/202207/07/2023

Trova – the intimate Cuban sound of guitars and vocal harmonies singing poetic lyrics –…

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  • Cuban Music

What is Son Cubano?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/07/202201/02/2026

Son is a vocal and instrumental dance genre, which constitutes one of the basic forms…

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  • News from Cuba

The Caribbean that unites us – the Fiesta del Fuego sets Santiago de Cuba alight

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/07/202219/01/2023

The fire of the Caribbean rekindles its flames in Santiago de Cuba this July with…

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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 13/11/202126/06/2022

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 19/10/202101/02/2026

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 19/10/202115/08/2022

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

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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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  • 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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