“Padura discusses events that have been taboo for us or that have been presented to us in a poorly focused manner. It’s never too late to fill the lagoons of disinformation that have been imposed on us,” says Anaisa.
Read MoreCuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez backed the reforms begun by the Cuban government in statements to the island’s journalism students. “We are returning to the good sense of aspiring to progress, collective and individually, through the dignity of work,” affirmed the musician, a founder of the New Song Movement.
Read MoreThe book Transdominacion en Haiti (1791-1826), by anthropologist and Havana Times colleague Dmitri Prieto Samsonov, was presented this week as part of the activities of the Havana International Book Fair.
Read MoreThe Young Filmmakers Exhibit of the Cuban Institute of Cinema Arts and Industry (ICAIC) will take place February 22-27 in the Cuban capital, announced filmmaker Fernando Pérez, president of the event, in which 17 works of fiction, 24 documentaries and 21 animated cartoons will compete. Perez said: “Not only do we wish to give each one the voice and the opportunity to exhibit their works, but also that they be the ones who participate in each of the details of the organization and holding of the event.”
Read MoreDecadencia was the first song I ever heard by Escuadron Patriota. This was at the end of 2009. What caught my attention was his courage and especially the absence obscene or violent language. But that hasn’t prevented him from being strictly censored.
Read MoreThe generation of creative artists that arose in the 1980s “believed strongly in the role of art as an engine and a tool for transforming life. I experienced this very intensely,” says Rene Francisco Rodriguez in an interview with IPS.
Read MoreAlthough the books are no longer so cheap, and people are anxious about the impending mass layoffs and the high cost of living, a large public turned out searching for literature from different parts of the world.
Read MoreIn a society where the overwhelming majority of youth not only don’t read, but they speak worse and worse every day, and they are voracious consumers of reggaeton and all types of flashy junk, this physical cutting back on poetry is only a symptom of the true illness that is eating away at us as a nation. It is a spiritual metastasis.
Read MoreCuba’s famed jazz pianist Chucho Valdes won his fifth Grammy Award on Sunday night in Los Angeles, California. Valdes and his band The Afro-Cuban Messengers competed in the Best Latin Jazz Album category with the CD Chucho’s Steps.
Read More“Being part of the Television Ballet I went on many international tours, some for only a few weeks and others — like with the Tihany Circus — for a year and a half.”
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