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La Super: the Cuban superheroine fighting violence against women

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/01/202319/01/2023

Cuba’s first superhero feature length animation was finally premiered in December 2022 at Havana’s New…

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  • Icons of Cuban Culture

Rogelio Martínez Furé, prominent Cuban folklorist, ethnologist and researcher

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/10/202212/10/2022

The outstanding Cuban folklorist, ethnologist and researcher and national prize for Literature Rogelio Martínez Furé died…

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  • Past events

Watch films on Cuban black female artists – by Juanamaria Cordones-Cook, 2-30 October, online

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/10/202219/01/2023

Cuban Women of the African Diaspora – Inspirations for Change A series of films by…

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  • Cuban Literature

Review: Yoruba from Cuba – Selected Poems by Nicolás Guillén

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/07/202215/08/2022

This exemplary book of the selected poetry of Nicolás Guillén, Cuba’s first ‘national poet’, contains…

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  • Cuban Art

Cuban artist Alberto Lescay receives the 2021 National Visual Arts award

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/12/202108/10/2022

Painter and sculptor from Santiago de Cuba, Alberto Lescay Merencio, has this week been awarded…

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  • Cuban Film

Short films bring humour, psychological terror and feminism at the Havana International Film festival

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2021

Short stories are part of the creative impulse to rethink the dynamics of the Latin…

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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 Literature

Georgina Herrera, Cuban poet, la Eterna Cimarrona

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 14/12/2021

Georgina Herrera was a Cuban poet and radio scriptwriter, feminist and anti-racist. In Cuba she…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba marks 135 years since the abolition of slavery

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  • 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

Gender Equality in Cuba and a new initiative announced

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  • Posted on 19/03/2021

March 8, International Women’s Day, is a prominent date in many parts of the world,…

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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

Yipsi Moreno and the force of women in Cuban sports

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/03/2021

In the run up to celebrate International Women’s Day (8 March) the press and media…

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  • Cuban Theatre

“Art must overcome everything, culture is life” interview with Fatima Patterson on what theatre means to her

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/02/202101/01/2022

As Fatima Patterson, Cuban theatre actor, playwright and director, 2017 Cuban Theatre National Award winner,…

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  • Cuban Film

Panorama of Cuban cinema made by women

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  • Posted on 15/10/202020/03/2021

From La Jiribilla At the same time that the #MeToo movement denounces sexual abuse and…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuban Government presents national program against racism and racial discrimination on TV

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  • Posted on 13/03/202030/06/2020

In November 2019 the Council of Ministers in Cuba approved a national program against racism…

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