Culture

Havana Times 2019 Photo Contest Notice

Our 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.

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Independent Project Promotes Art Brut in Cuba

Promoting 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.

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Singer Hernaldo Zuniga Cries Out for His Nicaragua

Hernaldo Zuniga knows every detail of the horror that has torn Nicaragua apart since April 2018 and knows that during demonstrations against the dictatorship thousands chanted in the streets of Managua, “They’re going… they’re going to hell forever,” it’s his most political composition, that now is seen as prophetic.

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Havana Percussion Festival March 4-10

The Havana International Drum Festival and Contest in its 18th edition takes place from March 4 to 10, convened by the National Center for Popular Music. The program of the event includes concerts, international percussion competitions, casino dancing and Rumba dancers.

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Tens of Thousands at Aid Concert for Venezuela

The concert hosted by British billionaire Richard Branson is being held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the Colombian city of Cucuta on the end of the Tienditas border bridge, which the Venezuelan opposition wants to use to take tons of foreign humanitarian aid into the country on Saturday.

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“Aid Live” Concert for Venezuela Ready for Friday

More than 30 singers and bands will give a free public concert this Friday on the Tienditas International Bridge, located between Colombia and Venezuela, for which they hope to collect more than 100 million dollars that will be donated to the Venezuelan people due to the humanitarian crisis they suffer.

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From Science to Art with Dioblan Hernandez

“Ojos del Alma” is an exhibition by Dioblan Hernandez Torres, a Mechanical Engineer turned artist, that was recently taken down at the Fajad Jamos Art Gallery in Alamar, and now part of it just opened on Saturday at the Frida Kahlo Gallery, in Central Havana’s Cultural Center located on Carlos III Avenue. It will be there until March 9th.

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Cuba’s Publishers Play Limited Role in Their Own Fair

General feedback after an event that was interrupted by cold February rain and winds suggest that our publishing houses are still present, but their real offers, for any user present at retail points, is a lot less than what is predicted for a country where the State exercises a powerful monopoly on published books.

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