Pop artist Juanes makes his first appearance in Cuba on Sunday September 20, at Havana’s Revolution Square, brimming with history and where 11 years ago Pope John Paul II officiated over an open mass. Crews of workers are already busy at work this week to prepare the grounds for the “Peace without Borders” mega-concert of 14 groups and singers.
Read MoreOn the back cover of “To Change the World: My Years in Cuba” is a statement by Maria Lopez Vigil, author of “Cuba: Neither Heaven Nor Hell:” To know Cuba, neither analyses nor statistics nor official declarations nor diatribes by its adversaries are enough. One needs eyes infused with heart, passionate eyes, with which to look at the Cuban people in their daily life. In this book Margaret Randall looks at Cuba through such eyes.”
Read MorePuerto Rican pop artist Danny Rivera is the latest musician to sign on to Juanes “Peace Without Borders” concert set for September 20th at Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution. Juanes has received anonymous death threats from violence-prone Cuban exiles in Miami who oppose any cultural exchange or contacts with Cuba.
Read MoreThe group Vocal LT, formed in 1997, has its own unique style with which it interprets jazz, Cuban, cumbia, pop and classical music. The three members of the group invite us to come every Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. to the Fresa y Chocolate Cultural Center, located on 23rd and 12th streets, one of the most focal corners in the Vedado district.
Read MoreThe 3rd International Forum “Children and their audiovisual universe,” will take place in the Cuban capital in the framework of the New Latin American Havana Film Festival next December 2-11, reported IPS.
The event seeks to promote “a culture of peace that contributes to the eradication of all types of discrimination by way of the production of educational audiovisual materials for children and adolescents.”
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of pioneering Cuban visual artist Belkis Ayón (1967-1999), an exhibition will be presented at the San Francisco de Assisi Convent through September and up to November 28.
Read MoreThe seventh edition of Septiembre Barroco (September Baroque), an annual event devoted to offering concerts of Baroque music gets underway on Friday evening. The setting will continue to be at the historic San Francisco de Paula Church.
Read MoreMonday, September 14, at 6:00 p.m. the Basílica Menor de San Francisco de Asís in Old Havana hosts a concert of Japanese traditional music with harp and flute, sponsored by the Japan Foundation and the Japanese embassy in Cuba, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of diplomatic relationships between Cuba and that Asian nation.
Read MoreWe residents of Havana have another great option for enjoying the best of the island’s music. “Todo mezclado” (Everything mixed) is the name and aim of music sessions organized by Pablo Menendez and the group Mezcla.
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