The good thing is that the project wasn’t defined from the very beginning. Over time we’re transforming and adapting “Vercuba” since we think of it as something alive and living,” said Ahmel Hechevarria Pere.
Read MoreGuitarist and lutist Efrain Amador Piñero, now 65, is credited with having the academic study of the island’s indigenous instruments, ones like the lute and tres, accepted into art schools in Cuba. “I consider it unfair when an instrument is separated from the genre that it represents.”
Read MoreIn 1961, barely 12 years old, Carlos Saladrigas was sent alone to Miami because his parents wanted to “save him from communism.” Half a century later he is one of the most successful Cuban-American businesspeople. For much of his life in exile he was an anti-Castro hardliner, but he is now part of a group that aims to support the reform process underway on the island.
Read More“A lot of things have happened, and I think that many of the goals have been achieved by those who started actions around that demand: the demotion of the agency’s director. The most important thing now is to rebuild, to see how we can move the Cuban Agency of Rap forward,” said Alcaild in his interview with HT.
Read MoreWithin contemporary visual arts on the island, Diego Torres is a luminary among the great Cuban landscape artists. However, in our interview he told HT: “I hate for people to pigeonhole me; I don’t even like being called a landscape artist because — though that’s what I do — I try to go beyond that genre.”
Read MoreThey are firmly committed to what they call “the Cuban political project” or what “the other side” would call the Castro regime. In terms of the many ideological classifications the Young Cuba blog is considered an independent – pro-government blog.
Read MoreTwo Cuban women — Estela Estevez and Eria Arrate — came together in order to create, and soon they will taking their works to the United States. As they commented, “The ‘Isla project’ proposes a search related to the feeling of ‘isolation.’”
Read MoreJoaquin P. Gonzalez Cabrera flashes past like a whirlwind skating down Alamar Avenue. In one hand he grips a rubber tube to protect his knees and elbows in case he falls and on his head he has a helmet that says “Alamar, Lone Skater.”
Read MoreMembers of the popular rap duo Doble Filo (Yrak “Vitalicio” Saenz and Edgar “Edgaro” Gonzalez) granted an exclusive interview to Havana Times. As they noted, “There has always been a wall of misunderstanding when it comes to promoting rap music in Cuba.”
Read MoreThrough a friend I got to know Maria de las Mercedes Gonzalez Amade, a young Havana woman who was physically challenged from an early age. Mercedes walks with great difficulty and life is a constant struggle for her to stay on her feet. Despite it all she still tries to make the most of things.
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