This is the third chapter in the video/theater series based on Edgar Lee Masters’ poems, written in the Spoon River Anthology. This episode focuses on the story of a young anarchist’s life, Searcy Foote. (18 photos)
Read MoreThe Afro-Cuban Alliance* invites Havana Times readers to attend the first edition of the Alternative Film from the Latin American and Caribbean African Diaspora Festival, which will take place at the Cultural Center in Havana’s Plaza municipality from Friday June 25th until June 28th, 5 PM – 8 PM.
Read MoreRoberto Fonseca is a multitalented Cuban jazz musician, composer and bandleader. Born into a musical family, he first started out with percussion before switching to piano when he was 8 years old.
Read MoreIn 1979, a young Carlos Mejia Godoy sang for a people’s armed revolution that was trying to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship. Forty years later the singer and composer is in exile for the second time. Now he is singing for a civic rebellion…
Read MoreThis exhibition’s central theme is popular cults in Africa and Cuba, cults with a long-standing tradition and validity in both peoples. Religious images, small allegorical sculptures, idols, ancient tools, crowned by a beautiful wall hanging, created by the unequalled painter Mendives, belonging to the museum’s own collection.
Read MoreCeleste Mendoza, a.k.a. “La Reina del Guaguanco”, was the first woman to sing this form of rumba, having been an exclusively male genre until then. Today we bring you her music.
Read MoreMusic quickly became an essential element of the civic protests that began in April 2018, against a new family dictatorship that has made Nicaragua bleed. A new generation of artists, including Bruno Cortina, was moved to compose the soundtrack of this new civic rebellion, which has left 326 dead, more than 700 political prisoners and the forced exile of some 60 thousand people.
Read MoreOn Friday May 18th, I heard on the radio that El Jonny, now the Rio Club, would be reopening. I was pleased to hear the news as I had always been curious to visit this club that was built before 1959. It is located in Havana’s Playa municipality, between the river that passes through and 5th Avenue in Miramar.
Read MoreFolk singer Tony Avila and his group played a concert to close the first edition of the Havana Poetry Biennial. The performance took place last Saturday on the main stage at Pabellon Cuba on La Rampa, in the capital.
Read MoreAndres Bazabe Hernandez is one of the many Cuban artists who has joined the recycling movement. He has many individual and group exhibitions under his belt, and some of his works even form part of private art collections in the US and Italy. (12 photos)
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