The rap duo “Cubanos en la red” will carry out during September several activities to support the conservation of the environment in the Cuban capital, the local press reported. The musicians have called for a concert today in the Havana municipality of Playa dedicated to the protection of the ozone layer, while on Saturday they will work with the Acualina project to clean areas of the capital’s 17 kilometers of coastline.
Read MoreCuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez said in his blog Segunda cita that he agreed with “reverting the mistakes” made by the Revolution. Rodríguez, one of the founders of the New Song Movement, said he was in favor of “eradicating authoritarianism and building a solid, efficient socialist democracy, whose functioning can always be perfected, that guarantees itself.” Moreover, he highlighted the rights that the socialist system has given to the Cuban population, “dignity and sovereignty, as well as health, education, culture and an honorable old age for all.
Read MoreSilvio Rodriguez’s songs reflect, they question and enter into dialogue with the most immediate realities. They reach soaring poetic flight and are able to transmit feelings with a tremendous intensity.
Read MoreComposer and interpreter Leo Brouwer, singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez and the Sierra Maestra and Septeto Habanero groups were nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards. The awards ceremony will take place next November 11 in the U.S. city of Los Angeles.
Read MoreFrom November 23 to 27, the 2010 JoJazz Young Jazz Artists Competition takes place in Havana. This event seeks to motivate participating youth to not only make incursions into traditional jazz styles, but to also seek their own styles of creation.
Read MoreThe opening had as it focus the epoch of Cuba as a pseudo-republic under US domination (1902-1958), and until November 28 it will be presenting historical books from those years, along with others by cultural anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, as well as photos and posters. At the entrance and on the tables were exhibited branches of the marabou tree as a symbol of strength and resistance.
Read MoreJust in is the September Cultural Calendar for Havana put together by the Cuba Absolutely web site. For a look at the happenings in music, dance, theater, etc. in the capital click here.
Read MoreMavi Susel, the first transsexual in Cuba to undergo sex reassignment surgery, back in 1988, has found herself trapped in the traditionally assigned gender role of a housewife. “She is a woman imprisoned in that gender role,” Marilyn Solaya, the Cuban filmmaker who made the documentary “In the Wrong Body.”
Read MoreHow can the scales of the Cuban caiman be turned into feathers? In Amerindian mythology, such a transformation is indispensable for the crocodile to fly. GECNA (the Our America Cultural Studies Group) aspires to defy not the gravity on the island, but something that is even more restricting: the individual ego.
Read MoreThe Brutal Rock Fest will begin today in the island’s capital with the participation of six metal groups from France and Switzerland, and four Cuban bands, which will perform in the Maxim Rock Theatre and in the city of Pinar del Río, sources from the event’s Organizing Committee announced. The musical event is sponsored by the Cuban Rock Agency, the French Brutal Beastdown Records label and the Swiss association Vrockal Metal Fest.
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