This is the official announcement for the HT Made in Cuba Photo Contest 2015. It is our seventh contest, one for each year of the online publication. The categories for submissions this year are: Friendship, Bicycles, Portraits, Workshops/Studios, Textures and Street Vendors.
Read MoreTo express through art, the desire for a better world where peace, respect and tolerance prevails, is the proposal of the traveling exhibition United Buddy Bears whose stage today and through March is in Havana. (30 photos)
Read MoreThough coming from an academic background, Jose Gavilondo has become an arranger for renowned folk musicians in Cuba. “Every piece is a completely new challenge,” he tells us in his interview for Havana Times.
Read MoreYasser Castellanos brings us his perspective on the recent agreements between the United States and Cuba, announced by Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro. What do you think?
Read MoreOld Havana residents and visitors are treated to agreeable surprises from time to time. The sound of trumpets and drums reached me from the other end of the square from a book launching I had gone to. (17 photos)
Read MoreToday we interview Mariela Flores and Miguel Angel Wong, the directors of the band Manane, people whom music and life has brought together. “Independent productions have proven to be the quickest and most effective way of making music,” they tell us.
Read MoreCharly Aliaga is a folk singer from Cuba’s eastern province of Granma whose songs cast a critical glance at the problems we face, using the city, the country’s institutions and daily life as his main referents.
Read MoreDuring the recently concluded Jazz Plaza 2014 festival several new venues took part in the event. One of those was the Pabellon Cuba facility; various reasons made it an option to consider. These included the location the time and the price. (21 photos)
Read MoreThe song is inspired by the daily routines of Cuba’s working class. The neighbor, the singer, the woman who asks for a lift at the street corner, all are faces of the same thing: different ways of facing up to the need of earning one’s daily bread.
Read MoreSincerity Is Not to Be Feared” is the title of a declaration issued by a group of 12 Cuban filmmakers that is currently being circulated via email on the island. They level sharp criticism for the banning of the film Regreso a Ithaca (“Return to Ithaca”) during the recently concluded 36th Havana Film Festival.
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