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Cuban Projects Invite Population to Break Down Machista Prejudice

A “busy” night, which combined a film screening, music, dance and drag queens, was held recently at La Marca body art studio/gallery, in Havana.

New Cuban Documentary against Oblivion and Lightness

“Portrait of an ever-adolescent artist” (a history of cinema in Cuba), is the most recent documentary by Cuban filmmaker Manuel Herrera, director of Zafiros, Locura azul (1997), Bailando Cha Cha Chá (2004), among his most known titles. A hilarious film, ingenious as its protagonist, the late filmmaker and actor Julio Garcia Espinosa…

Cuba’s “Parrandas” a Tradition in Danger of Being Lost

Even though he left 20 years ago, Ivey Diaz returns to Camajuani every March when it’s parade time. As a child, his mother worked in the San Jose (Sapos) Neighborhood’s dressing room while he made small floats with bits of scrap material.“This passion doesn’t ever leave you, it doesn’t matter where you go,” he told IPS.

A Visit to Havana’s La Zorra y El Cuervo Jazz Club… Finally!

I have always liked jazz ever since I was a little girl, and I would dream about jazz clubs. I imagined a band or just a trio playing in a dimly-lit place, sipping on a chilled highball cocktail, captivated by the music of Chano Pozo, Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie. (19 photos)

Cuba’s Twisted History Advances

Last Saturday, journalist Eduardo Cedeno Milan gave a news report on Cuban TV about Cuba’s Musical Editions and Recording Company (EGREM), calling it “Cuba’s longest-living recording company”. Stated as an absolute, this phrase enshrines a historic mistake and also testifies to the Party/State’s manipulative campaign, which has spread to most of our national past.

Young Filmmakers Show their Works in Cuba from April 2-7

Cinema as a pretext to revalue reality, change it, think it, rewrite it. This is what the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) Young Filmmakers Showing proposes each year, which seeks to promote the most recent work of those who are starting out in this adventure that is the seventh art. This 18th edition of the event arrives from April 2 to 7

I Still Like Miguel Bose, Despite What the Cuban Media Now Says

In 2009, Colombian singer Juanes’ “Peace without Borders” concert managed to fill Revolution Square in Havana with Cubans who weren’t there to watch a parade or mass rally, who weren’t there to shout and/or carry pro-Revolution slogans, but were just there to listen to musicians. Among the foreign guests at this concert was the Spanish singer Miguel Bose.

“Exiled” from Nicaragua: Portrait of a Sexual Abuse Survivor

It’s always hard for a sexual abuse victim to come forward and speak about her tragedy with an outsider. Even more so, if there’s a video camera running between the two. Leonor Zuniga believes that Zoilamerica Narvaez agreed to speak with her about the denunciation of her stepfather, Daniel Ortega, “because I promised her two things.”

Nicaragua Crisis Report turns “Incredible Horror Novel”

“What has happened in Nicaragua overcomes fiction, it is already a tragic realism that Nicaraguans live in. It is a horror soap opera that never ends,” says Arquimedes Gonzalez, the author of “Waiting for April”, in an interview with Acan-EFE.

Cuba Hosts International Biennial of Graphic Humor March 31-April 3

Now in its 21st edition, the International Biennial of Graphic Humor will be held in Cuba from March 31st until April 3rd. This year its regular exhibition spaces in San Antonio de los Banos have been extended to the country’s capital. (13 photos)