Culture Archives - Havana Times

Oscar-winner “I’m Still Here,” and the Importance of Memory

The film should be shown in schools, so the youth can reflect about what’s at stake when a government is exercising terror.

Jessica describes her voyage from childhood in one of those many musical Cuban families to realizing her dream of being an orchestra conductor

The 97th edition of the Oscars stood out for the near-absolute silence regarding the turbulent times the US faces.

Juan Carlos Ampie’s picks. Best Picture: Anora or Conclave; Actors: Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet, Zoe Saldaña; Foreign Film: I Am Still Here.

As I do when I retreat to a mountain or to the sea, today I wanted to avoid pessimism, but without escaping the city. (11 photos)

In the vast circuit of world music venues, Cuba no longer competes. It lacks any material attraction.

Daymé Arocena (Havana, 1992) says that some people are afraid to call her black. “It’s as if it were a hurtful word.”

When my aunt told me about this, I couldn’t believe it. This experience wasn’t even lived during those grim and monstrous 1990s.

Pedro Franco knows what he wants and knows how to achieve it. He lives for theater with a passion that no longer seems to belong to this era.

Gioconda Belli presents her novel “A Silence Full of Murmurs.” The work “is about the human conflict of how much one sacrifices for a dream.”