Havana Happenings for January
Here is the cultural calendar for January 2011. The calendar put out by the Cuba Absolutely website includes happenings in music, dance, theater and the visual arts in the Cuban capital.
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“Gasolina” and the Blues
It’s easier to take him for crazy. To look at his Walt Whitman-style mane, with green leaves sometimes tangled in his white hair; the clothes he wears, as old as he is; the beard, which might remind some people of a confirmed Marxist, and his carefree gait through the streets of Caracas, with his four string guitar on his shoulder, inseparable; one might say, “Look, one more lunatic.”(9 photos)
Read MoreCuban Intellectual Rufo Caballero Dies
Cuban critic and essayist Rufo Caballero died Wednesday in the Cuban capital due to a heart attack at the age of 45.. A full professor of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana, Caballero dedicated the major part of his work to cinema critique, for which he was given recognitions such as the Ibero-American and Caribbean Cinema Essay Award, and the Cuban National Cinema Critique Prize.
Read MoreCuba Flamenco Artist Reinier Mariño
HT interviews Reinier Mariño, a recognized flamenco guitarist from Cuba who left the island several years ago to pursue a fruitful international career. “I love to play; it’s perhaps what I love most in life. I would dare to say, with all sincerely, that I like playing the guitar more than making love,” says the musician.
Read More60-Minutes in Cuba with Wynton Marsalis
In contrast to politicians, “culture brings people together,” noted Wynton Marsalis, 49, in an interview with 60-Minutes on his recent trip to Cuba heading up the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Read MoreCuba Adjusts Book Production
The Cuban State will maintain its subsidy to the island’s publishing houses, but they will have to adjust their subjects and print runs to the population’s demands, Zuleika Romay, director of the Cuban Book Institute, affirmed. Every year Cuba organizes a book fair with the sale of millions of copies, in what constitutes one of the country’s major cultural events,
Read MoreCuba’s Luis Javier Fuentes: He’s Small, but he Grows on Stage
When I look back and recall how I began in elementary school as a little child who barely knew what it really meant to be a dancer, this is when I realize that I’m realizing a dream.
Read MoreCuba Dedicates Book Fair to ALBA Countries
Cuba will dedicate the next Book Fair to the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People’s of Our America (ALBA), reported the multinational Telesur television network. That event, the most important of the island’s literature, will be held February 10-20, 2011.
Read MoreInterview with writer Felix Guerra on the 100th BD of Jose Lezama Lima
“…The system that closes — no matter how great it is or how much truth and logic that people believe it to possess internally — it quickly becomes something like a Great Dane covered with ticks,” notes Felix Guerra.
Read MoreJazz Plaza 2010: A Mystery that Pleased
Our press reported little on the guests who would be appearing or about anything that occurred following the festival’s opening, all of which compelled saxophonist Bobby Carcasses to jokingly refer to an almost clandestine celebration. (8 photos)
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