The 9th Humberto Solás Low-Budget Film Festival will be held in the eastern city of Gibara next April 5-10, according to Sergio Benvenuto, director of the event, which on this occasion will pay tribute to its deceased founder on the 70th anniversary of his birth.
Read MoreThe exhibit by Adonis Ferro, which people will be able to enjoy up to February 20, 2011, features medium and over-sized paintings in which the forms trap the viewer. Amorphous creatures peer out from the canvas, they interrogate, provoking the visitor to think. (9 photos)
Read MoreTaking a stroll through Old Havana is always a good way to break the monotony. We never really get to know the place since every day the most commonplace scene can turn into a surprise. (19 photos)
Read MoreEvery Friday, amid the noise of buses and cars on Carlos III Street, nocturnal lights allow us to see people (very few) sittings on rustic benches in a portico waiting for the sounds of guitars to begin.
Read MoreCuba will present more than 2,000 titles during the next Book Fair, which will begin Feb. 10 in this capital. The new books include the ALBA Bicentennial collection, dedicated to commemorating two centuries of Latin American independence.
Read MoreA chronicler of his times, Raul Torres was born in Bayamo, Cuba, but he became known in Matanzas Province. From folk “trova” roots, he has researched the music of diverse regions of the world to incorporate sonorities and melodic elements of jazz as well as Brazilian, African and lately Anglo-Saxon music.
His evolution as an artist has allowed him to extend from a very particular intimate quality to reach positions of social criticism and challenge according to the degree of commitment that he has gradually acquired over the passing years, though without ceasing to uphold poetry and the beauty of life.
Read MoreThe Casa de la Trova of Santiago de Cuba, one of the places best known for traditional Cuban music, will be reopened next Sunday, after a restoration that took back the locale to where it was founded in 1968.
Read MoreCoinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Casa de Africa museum and gallery, this event (see accompanying photos) was held from January 5-9. It had been anxiously awaited not only by its presenters, but also by the whole community in which the facility is located: the historic district of Old Havana. (29 photos)
Read MoreLong lines were everywhere during this past Havana Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema. Though Cuban movies attracted large audiences, Lester Hamlet’s Casa Vieja (Old House) was a magnet that drew the young and not-so-young alike. In fact, more than a month later it is still packing in crowds in Havana’s premiere cinemas. Why is this happening?
Read MoreCuban ballerina Loipa Araujo, one of the so-called four jewels of the National Ballet of Cuba, was awarded the Legion of Honor granted by the French Republic, for having given the “best of herself, of her knowledge, of her philosophy of life in favor of the splendor of French ballet, with her experience and vision to the formation of young dancers,” affirmed Jean Mendelson, ambassador of that European nation to the island.
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