Jandir 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)
Read MoreOur 2019 Cuba Photo Contest is now officially open for sending in your entries. The 2018 contest brought together entries from 109 amateur and professional photographers. Now, we are happy to announce the 11th edition of the event.
Read MorePromoting works under the concept “Art Brut”, Riera Studio’s independent project seeks to encourage the creation and study of an art expression in Cuba that still faces reluctance, the artists which are normally ignored because they have no formal education in the arts.
Read MoreThe Havana World Music Festival in its sixth edition is set be held in Havana on March 21-23.
Read More“Inocencia” (Innocence), the new Cuban film now in movie theaters, is based on the tragedy of eight medical students who were executed in 1871. The movie tells us how these young people were charged with a fabricated crime and the punishment that followed.
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