Chinese in Cuba, a Cuban in China (Part II)
HT continues its interview with Julio Tang, a Cuban of Chinese descent who is currently studying in China and who is a founding member of two socially critical left initiatives in Cuba.
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A Chinese in Cuba, a Cuban in China (Part I)
Globalization didn’t begin yesterday, for 500 years global flows have permeated the island of Cuba. Julio Tang is one of those who are part of the Chinese diaspora on this island. He is a historian, teacher of the Chinese language, a cultural promoter and a social activist.
Read MoreCuban Artist Looking Inwards
Desgaste is the first individual exhibition of this young 28-year-old artist who has previously participated in several group expositions.” This work has taken me two or three years of experimentation to develop, without knowing if it could or could not be developed as a form of art,” notes Yomer Fidel Montejo Harrys. 13 FOTOS
Read MoreDiscovering the other Siboney
“It hasn’t been for a lack of demands. There hasn’t been a meeting of the CDR (neighborhood-based Committees for the Defense of the Revolution) or with the local representative to the Peoples Power Assembly of the Province where local people haven’t raised these concerns.”
Read MoreCuban Writer Nicolas Dor Triumphs in NYC
The dramaturgic works of acclaimed Cuban writer Nicolas Dor have transcended Cuban theater. He was recently selected as the best author of the year by the Association of Entertainment Critics in New York.
Read MoreCuban Rocker Hiram Casas of ‘The Shepal’
According to Hiram Casas, the vocalist with the Cuban rock group The Shepal, “Here in Cuba we continue to have problems assimilating and offering opportunities to subcultures whose content contrasts with what is already established.”
Read MoreAlfredo Ureta, a Cuban Video and Filmmaker
“Although the public currently associates me more with music videos, I feel like a person of the cinema,” Cuban video and filmmaker Alfredo Ureta told HT. And speaking of cinema, Ureta’s first full length film “La Mirada” (The Look) – shot over four years – is coming out soon.
Read MoreCuba’s Female Sexto Sentido Quartet
The Cuban female vocal group Sexto Sentido came together in 1997. The quartet has a strong jazz and rhythm and blues sound with a Brazilian influence as well as from its Cuban roots. We interviewed Yudelkis La Fuente, the director and lead singer.
Read MoreGetting Cubans to Think and Talk
“I talk to deal with problems. In Cuba, there is too much formal, repetitive discourse and not enough directed at people, with their anxieties and joys,” said Manuel Calviño, the host and writer of a television programme that tries not to add to that deficit.
Read MoreYat-Sen Chang Dancing from Cuba to London
Yat -Sen Chang is currently the principal dancer with the English National Ballet of London. He comes from a family that has given important names to Cuban dance.
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