At night, Havana’s picturesque ocean drive becomes a showcase where young men offer the charms of their youth to tourists in search of sexual adventures. The double standards that underpin these relations is one of the issues explored by La partida (“The Departure”), a gay drama directed by Spanish filmmaker Antonio Hens which will premiere in Spain this Friday and is coming to Cuba in July.
Read MoreEGREM, Cuba’s oldest record label and music company, is turning fifty. To celebrate the occasion, several artists are offering concerts, attending galas and launching new albums. One of the dance companies taking part in the festivities is Danza Contemporanea. (30 photos)
Read MoreThe room is completely dark. Suddenly, a light settles on a pair of legs moving frantically to and fro. Thus begins Posible imposible (“The Possible Impossible”), a contemporary dance performance co-produced by Sweden’s Memory Wax company and Cuba’s Retazos dance and theater group, which premiered in Havana on Friday, March 7.(31 photos)
Read MoreThe Cuban model and actor William Levy this week attended the premiere of “The Single Mothers Club” the first Hollywood film in which he participates, reported Diario de Cuba.
Read MoreThe Platform for Cuban Integration began Friday in the city of Miami, the civic- cultural campaign “For equality and integration in Cuba,” with activists from the island and emigrants living in the US participating. The campaign will continue through March 30.
Read MoreThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published today a list of 70 artworks recently stolen from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. Cuban authorities had confirmed the robbery but without giving specific figures on the number of stolen pieces.
Read More“At least I had the guts to go down there and see it with my own eyes,” said Oliver Stone who just relaeased his documentary “Mi Amigo Hugo” on the late Venezuelan president.
Read MoreRaul Castro dismissed Wednesday his Minister of Culture, Rafael Bernal, after two years in office; no reason was given. Bernal was immediately replaced with the current deputy minister, Julián González Toledo, 52.
Read MoreWe present the program for the Cuba Cinematheque for March 2014. It includes the premier of the Cuban documentary “Humberto” (Humberto Solas) directed by Carlos Barba Salva on March 25.
Read MoreThe report of a major theft of valuable Cuban art from the island’s Fine Arts Museum was confirmed on Friday in a statement from the National Council of Cultural Heritage.
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