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Havana Cultural Calendar for December

Here is the cultural calendar for the rest of December which includes the Havana Jazz Plaza Festival from Dec. 16-19. The calendar put out by the Cuba Absolutely website includes happenings in music, dance, theater and the visual arts in the Cuban capital.

In Cuba, another Look at the Favelas

Neighbors tell us how they would like to be treated, how they live, how they suffer and how their lives too include happiness, passion and love. Though never ceasing to be surrounded by violence, this is not the sole flavor of this film that is divided into five stories.

The Chilean Building in Cuba

The contradiction between abandoning one’s children today so that they might live in a better country tomorrow stirs a host of emotions, and much sadness and regret.

Cuba’s Peter Pans Fly into Havana

Anger and/or understanding of parents, foster homes, some caring, some unbearable, orphanages that included the type of sexual abuse that has rocked the Catholic Church with scandal in recent years, marks this large group of Cubans trying to put the pieces of their lives together.

A Ticket To Where?

Perhaps it was the topic that attracted people to the Yara Cinema; or maybe it was the little that had been mentioned about the film in question. In any case, on Monday morning, December 5, cinema lovers were surprised with the premiere of Cubano: Boleto al paraiso (Cuban: Ticket to Paradise), by Gerardo Chijona.

Cuba Film Festival Stirs Controversy

The film festival sparks debate between people; some who don’t even know each other, and others who see each other every year in December. There are lines to get into the cinemas; it’s a moment in which people leave the comfort of their DVDs or TVs to socialize in the large theater lobbies.