For those who want to discover something different in terms of music in the city’s historic center, Arab music is performed by the group Aisha al Hanan every Wednesday and Friday at 9:00 in the evening at the El Patio restaurant, where the show is presented in Havana’s Plaza de la Catedral.
Read More“A festival of what?” one woman asked, as she watched a parade to the pipers moving down calle Obispo in Old Havana. When she found out that it was a festival of Celtic music and tradition, her face grimaced as she wondered, “Are there really that many followers of that culture in Cuba?”
Read MoreFive girls and five boys are taking time to remember the hurricane that devastated their home town of Gibara in eastern Cuba two years ago, mingling their memories with their dreams, and filming images to make a video message for children in Haiti.
Read MoreTaking the title from a Jose White song —“La Bella Cubana”— a program has been organized to discuss the work of women connected to the universe of music. When creating this space, professor and musicologist Alicia Valdes intended to give light and voice to such females. (13 photos)
Read MoreThe film “Casa vieja” (Old house) by Cuban director Lester Hamlet won the coveted top award at the 8th Low-Budget Film Festival in Gibara, Holguin, Cuba. Hamelt won a US $70,000 prize he said he would use to make video clips and short films
Read MoreFew Cubans know that one can find the foremost works by a renowned twentieth-century Danish painter right here in our capital. These are by Asger Jorn (1914-1973), one of the most outstanding neo-expressionist artists and a one-time friend of the world-recognized late Cuban painter Wifredo Lam.
Read MoreThere are many types of voices, and the city is full of them. Thus, life doesn’t take place here like in some European cities, where people go down the street looking in a kind of lateral way. Here it’s just the opposite; looks bounce off each other, and very interesting visual encounters take place. Sensuality is in the air.
Read MoreRecently a unique pilgrimage took place in the oldest part of Old Havana, accustomed to hearing the guitars of trova musicians or the percussion of conga players, vibrated to different sounds. Down the length of calle Obispo to the Plaza de Armas paraded youth playing bagpipes and tambourines.
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The 15th Old Havana Dance in Urban Spaces Festival concluded on Sunday. The event —held in the Plaza de Armas— took place last week and brought together artists from 19 countries. (44 photos)
Read MoreFrom their altitude, Silvio and Pablo, with their recent clear and strong calls for fundamental changes in our society, again give strength to the trapped, decimated, troubled, but always faithful and revolutionary, generation of ’68. They, together with the forces of positive change, would be invincible, because they are recognized, trusted voices of our generation.
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