The 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”.
Read MoreThe magician movement in Cuba was very popular and enjoyed by Cuban audiences. Unfortunately, the Cuban regime’s bureaucracy and centralism marginalized a significant number of self-taught artists like Leonel Martinez. Today, he has opened up his home in the town of Santiago de las Vegas, to give us an exclusive interview here on Havana Times.
Read More“Glances of Resistance” is an exhibition of protest art by Nicaraguan artists that was presented from October 19-21 at the Grand Marche Stalingrad Museum in Paris. The exhibition included works of art produced in the context of the socio-political crisis that the country is currently going through.
Read MoreWord has it (and I don’t know whether this is true or not) that at the meeting known as “Words to the Intellectuals” (1961) when Fidel outlined the limits of artistic creation in socialist Cuba with disguised and obvious threats, playwright Virgilio Pinera asked to have the floor and just uttered these words: “I’m afraid”.
Read MoreSince the state repression began in April, Nicaraguan artists have made known their support for the repressed population through songs and statements. The Milly Majuc Band has gone further and has supported it in different ways: playing at sit-ins, dedicating songs for those murdered by the Daniel Ortega regime and recently joined the consumer boycott called for on social networks.
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