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What is Cuba’s Critical Observatory?

The date for the holding of the fifth Critical Observatory of Cuba Social Forum is approaching, but does everyone know what it is, or its history or who its members are? (30 photos)

Cuba Holds Terry Fox Run for Life 2011

Little Susan doesn’t know who Terry Fox was, but ever since she was born she’s watched her family train hard and run in the marathon that carries the Canadian’s name. (42 photos)

Confluence of Sound at Havana’s Casa de ALBA

Titled “En Confluencia,” a musical presentation led by guitarist Eduardo Martin takes place every second Sunday of the month at 5:00 p.m. at the Casa del ALBA Cultural (556 Linea Avenue at the corner of D Street in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana). (10 photos)

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)

Angolan Visit to Africa in Cuba

Ms. 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)

Outdoor Agro Markets in Havana

Special 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)

Havana Relic: From School to Ruins

I 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)

Leo Brouwer at the Callejón de Hamel

Leo 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)

Tlaxcala Folkloric Ballet in Cuba

The 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)

Cuba Has a New Catholic Seminary

There 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)