“El ultimo pais” (The last country) is the latest movie from filmmaker Gretel Marin. “What seemed to be a trip back to my country at a time of change, ends up being an inner journey, between contradictions and doubts about my identity as a Cuban,” Marin writes in her synopsis.
Read MoreThere’s no doubt that the story of independent artists and writers in Cuba today resembles that of Jose Marti. There are many people who believe that saying anything about what is happening with Art in our country won’t change a thing. To all of those people, I would like to say that remaining silent in the face of injustice makes them accomplices.
Read MoreArtists who have suffered arrests for demanding a dialogue with the Minister of Culture remain in their campaign against Decree 349, which takes effect on Friday and criminalizes any and all types of independent art in Cuba.
Read MoreIf you are under thirty, or you just don’t listen to rap music or are not interested in hip hop, the look of this black, bearded man with dreadlocks would leave you indifferent. The name “Anonimo Consejo” won’t mean anything to you, much less the name “Sekou”.
Read MoreThe 40th edition of Havana’s International Festival of New Latin American Cinema is on our heels. The Cuban capital will fill with movie debuts, retrospectives, exhibitions and tributes for ten intense days, from December 6th-16th. A lot of people in the capital take their vacations each year at this time.
Read MoreLuis Manuel Otero Alcantara is one of the most well-known activists involved in the campaign against Decree 349, which takes effect on December 7th, and we sat down with him to today to talk about efforts being made to save Cuban culture.
Read MoreA part of the group “Cuban Artists against Decree-Law 349” had organized to meet at Yanelys’ house at 2 PM on November 22nd, to go and meditate in a public space for art and freedom of expression. I felt that something wasn’t quite right. “It must be nerves,” I thought…
Read MoreThe 2019 edition of the International Poetry Festival held annually in Nicaragua was postponed “in the absence of conditions”, as a result of the serious political crisis that the country has been experiencing since April, organizers announced on Sunday, reported dpa news.
Read MoreFilling sheets of paper with pseudoacademic definitions could be an alternative for filling a space but the truth is that an artist is independent when they are free to create and exhibit or perform their work wherever they like.
Read MoreEach day during the month of October, Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina drew a portrait of one of the persons who were killed since the protests against the government began in April. He did this as part of the worldwide initiative Inktober created by US illustrator Jake Parker, in which illustrators from all over the world created pen and ink drawings to return to “the origins of design”.
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