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.
Read MoreIt’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.”
Read More“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.
Read MoreNow 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)
Read MoreJandir Rodriguez, author of the song “Heroes of April,” has been told that his songs will not change the reality of the country. But he has always believed that music “can transform society.” Along with his guitar, he has focused all his musical production to sing to young people killed by repression, to the mothers and to those exiled.
Read MoreOne of a few Cuban congueros to emigrate to the US in the ‘40s and ‘50s, Carlos Vidal Bolado was the first musician to play congas in Latin Jazz, as an original member of Machito and his Afro-Cubans.
Read MoreManuela Grau and Alfredo Gibert Flores make up the group “Amig@s (amigaos) por el Cuento”. They visited Cuba for the International “Cuenta Habana” Storytelling Festival”. They performed at different venues across the capital and in another province in Cuba.
Read MoreWith the same success that Airbnb has had with its accommodation services in rental homes, the company has managed to establish its “Experiences” model on the international market, and in Havana, in just two years’ time.
Read MoreRumba is considered the quintessential genre of Cuban secular music and dance. For many Cubans, rumba represents an entire way of life and professional rumberos have called it a national sport, as important as baseball. (24 photos)
Read MoreLocated on Havana’s centrally-located San Rafael Boulevard, Collage Habana gallery is kicking off March with the solo exhibition “Zona sagrada” (Sacred Zone) by the young visual artist Luis Enrique Milan Boza. Luis Enrique has chosen to put his viewers in front of what is sacred and religious in different universal cultures. He has taken sculpture and drawing as the mediums for his thesis, showing sacred and religious environments through a gaze that goes beyond conceptual art. (11 photos)
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