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Havana Club and Skepta

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/09/202023/09/2020

Havana Club has joined forces with the lyrical champion and top UK grime legend Skepta…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Sad loss of the historian of Havana: Eusebio Leal Spengler, 1942-2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/08/202007/11/2020

Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historian of the City of Havana for more than 40 years and…

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  • Cuban Architecture

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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  • Cuban Architecture

La Habana, lo más grande: 500 year history of the city of Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/11/201904/08/2020

“LA HABANA, LO MÁS GRANDE” (“Havana, the greatest”) is the slogan being used in Cuba…

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  • Cuban Art

Havana and Trinidad become UNESCO Creative Cities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/11/201904/08/2020

This 30 October, the Cuban cities of Havana and Trinidad have been designated as UNESCO…

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  • Cuban Film

Ten times Havana took over the big screen – films which star the city itself

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/11/201919/12/2020

The city of Havana has been a muse, a protagonist and also a cliché in…

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Fabrica de Arte Cubano (FAC) in Havana declared among the 100 best places in the world by Time Magazine

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/08/201904/08/2020

The Fabrica de Arte Cubano [Cuban Art Factory] (known as FAC) is included in the…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Interview with Eusebio Leal Spengler, on the restoration of Old Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/07/201903/08/2020

To say ‘Eusebio Leal Spengler’ is to say Havana – how many other cities have…

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  • News from Cuba

Havana’s founding designated as World Heritage site

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/06/201904/08/2020

UNESCO designated as a World Heritage site on 11 June the original documents detailing the…

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  • Cuban Art

A visit to the Havana Biennial – ‘Constructing the possible’ (with photos)

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/04/201928/09/2020

Despite all the odds, Havana has pulled off a magnificent Biennial this April. With this…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Havana Historian Eusebio Leal is named Honorary Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/12/201804/08/2020

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has distinguished the Historian of the City of…

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  • Cuban Music

10 songs for Havana

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/12/201804/08/2020

Throughout 2019 Cuba’s capital city Havana will be celebrating its 500th anniversary of its foundation.…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Havana’s 500th anniversary will bring restoration of city landmarks

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/11/201804/08/2020

“Havana has played an important role in the construction of the national character, in the…

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  • Cuban Architecture

Havana 500: The Time of the Cuban Capital Has Come

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/07/201804/08/2020

by: Arteporexcelencia/Caribbean News Digital On July 4, 2019, there will be exactly 500 days left…

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On a day like today 20 February the wonderful Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer was born in 1927. He passed away 15 years ago but his memory lives on with so many great Cuban songs. He was a great singer of son but sang many boleros with buena vista social club. Which is your favourite Ibrahim Ferrer track?
Happy Birthday to the FAC Fábrica de Arte Cubano - in Havana - 7 years today!
Fatima Patterson is a top Cuban theatre actor, director and playwright, celebrating her 70th birthday this week. With her company Macuba she has dedicated the last 30 years to making amazing theatre embedded physically, narratively and spiritually in her home town of Santiago de Cuba. In this recent interview she talks about her approach to theatre, her themes, and her view on the way forward for artists out of the pandemic.
“Con todos, y para el bien de todos” (With everyone and for the benefit of everyone)
New documentary 'Castro's Spies' will make its debut in the UK screened online from 26 February as part of the Glasgow Film Festival.
From 19-24 January Cuba's world-renowned festival #JazzPlaza2021 is offering many hours of live performances, descargas, master classes and discussions online. What is on offer is incredible so if you are a Cuban music or jazz fan you must feast on it now!

Havana D’Primera: Me Dicen Cuba

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