Culture

Performances by Cuban musician X Alfonso and his band were well received at the La Cueva cultural center, in the Germanic capital, as part of the group’s current European tour. The singer will now perfrom in Sweden.

The Cuban film Habanastation won the popularity award at the recently concluded 16th annual Lima Film Festival

The Cuban government has withdrawn a “blacklist” from state-run radio stations, one which included Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan, Bebo Valdes and another fifty artists who were or are critical of the island’s political system.

Israel Rojas (a member of the popular musical duo Buena Fe) protested Cuban television’s censorship of his latest music video “Ser del Sol” (Being of the Sun), which is about a homosexual relationship between two women.

The Buena Vista Social Club Orchestra and diva Omara Portuondo will be showcased today at the Castell de Peralada Festival, being held until August 22 in Spain.

With the title Irremediablemente juntos (Hopelessly Together), theaters around Havana are showing the latest film by Jorge Luis Sanchez, who previously gave us his hit film El Benny and much earlier directed several important documentaries for the history of Cuban cinema.

The eighth annual Hip Hop Symposium, with participants from several Latin American countries — including Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Peru — will be held from August 15 to 19 in the Cuban capital.