A Night at the 2011 Cuba Drum Festival
This was the tenth annual “Fiesta of the Drum,” which during each of its years has presented an opportunity to listen to quality live percussionists. (14 photos)
Read MoreThis was the tenth annual “Fiesta of the Drum,” which during each of its years has presented an opportunity to listen to quality live percussionists. (14 photos)
Read MoreMs. Rosa Cruz e Silva, the Angolan minister of Culture, visited Cuba at the invitation of Cuban Minister of Culture Abel Prieto. Among the activities carried out by Ms. Cruz in Havana was a visit to the Casa de Africa museum, where she participated in a press conference and delighted in the presentations of age-old African cultures presented at the institution. (24 photos)
Read MoreSpecial markets (known as agricultural fairs) are being held in all the municipalities of the capital on the last weekend of the month (on Friday, Saturday and Sunday). The rest of the month, government-run markets and smaller but much more expensive ones can be found in the neighborhoods. (26 photos)
Read MoreI discovered this building in 2010. I was walking down Carmen Street on the way to a friend’s house and curiosity stopped me. Of course I wanted to know the previous use of this enormous building, now half destroyed and that looked completely abandoned. (18 photos)
Read MoreLeo Brouwer, the famed Cuban musician, composer and orchestra conductor, paid a recent visit to the Callejón de Hamel cultural project in Centro Habana. There was rumba, dancing and singing. (27 photos)
Read MoreThe Tlaxcala Folkloric Ballet was recently in Cuba for a series of performances. We took in the one put on by the Casa de Mexico of Havana and the Old Havana Historian’s Office that featured the troupes youth performers. It took place in the Plaza de Armas which — by the way — boasts the sole wooden street in the Cuban capital. (23 photos)
Read MoreThere are few photos of The new San Carlos y San Ambrosio Seminary, perhaps because it is so out of the way on the outskirts of the city. This report provides photos of the interior and external of the facility, as well as information related to the institution. (30 photos)
Read MoreLeaving Caracas was not as joyous as I thought it would be; to say anything else wouldn’t be sincere. (20 photos)
Read More“It doesn’t matter. I didn’t even know there would be seats. What’s important is not to miss this event, an outdoors symphonic concert, it’s marvelous. I’m 19 and I told lots of my friends to come. (8 photos)
Read MoreAntonio Guerrero has a painting exhibition of birds currently showing at the Pabellon Cuba facility on busy 23rd St. in the Vedado District of Havana. Guerrero could not attend the showing as he has been imprisoned for over 12 years in the United States, along with four other members of the Cuban Five, accused of conspiracy to commit espionage and other charges. (47 photos)
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