Composer 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.
Read MoreWe’ve just received an announcement for the Brutal Fest 2010 Grand Fiesta of Metal in Cuba. The event takes place from September 2-7 with concerts in Havana and Pinar del Rio.
Read MoreThe popular Cuban rap duo Los Aldeanos will perform in concert in Miami on November 13, reported IPS, citing the El Nuevo Herald newspaper. The group will perform along with Silvito El Libre, another representative of the underground Cuban hip hop movement, that cuts discs outside the state institutions.
Read MoreThe words of Mavis, the images that relate the rape that she suffered by an adult in school, as well as her loneliness and sadness make us think that the title of the film should be something different. It’s the society that’s wrong, and society is made up of all of us who judge. We don’t understand and we even hurt those who are different from the majority. “Neither the homosexuals nor the heterosexuals accepted me; I was an outcast. It was like I was some kind of weirdo in this society…”
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