Spanish folk songs, especially those created in Granada Spain, paid us a visit this past weekend at the Mella Theater in Havana. This genre —with numerous followers in our country— had its origins in the 1930s when Andalusian performances added to their traditional flamenco songs ones that shared the story line of the cuplé, with its stories of revenge, indifference and passion.
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Santa Clara is, for most of its residents, the “City of Che.” Since 1958 —when the Argentinean guerilla fighter derailed a train full of soldiers of the Batista dictatorship. However, there are several places in that city that are also worth visiting…ones beyond the myths that are passed on there. (28 photos)
Read MoreCuba’s annual book fair brings out people of all ages with a lot of enthusiasm for literature in a country of readers. The fair is now in the different provinces but we bring you another look at the 11 days the event was at the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress turned cultural center in the Cuban capital. (38 photos)
Read MoreJuan Carlos Cremata wanted to take advantage of the occasion to exhibit his latest independent production, “Chamaco” (in what he called a “dress rehearsal with the public” and not a premier, because it still lacks a few post-production details). (12 photos)
Read MoreOld Havana’s Plaza Vieja was the setting for a gala performance by different schools of Chinese martial arts on the island in celebration of the Chinese lunar year, which this year is associated with the tiger. The tradition has been maintained in Cuba by many people of Chinese ancestry. (16 photos)
Read MoreFrom Venezuela, Isabel Falcon presented a work on indigenous communities and brought the work of young photographers from her country. (20 photos)
Read MoreThe exhibit seeks to establish a connection between human beings and the environment, that’s why in the faces are always impressions of some other element, be it earth, glass, flowers, the skeleton of some little animal or an insect. (11 photos)
Read MoreIt was like old times; the Bolshoi Ballet performed Saturday in Cuba after a 30-year absence. The by-special-invitation audience filled the 5,000 seat Karl Marx Theater. Jorge Luis offers Havana Times readers his up front view of the event that took place within the program of the 19th Cuba International Book Fair. (12 photos)
Read MoreThe Cuba International Book Fair is underway in the capital in its 19th edition with its headquarters at the sprawling San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress overlooking Havana Bay. The event —the most widely attended on the island— brings together Cubans of all ages and also attracts foreign visitors. (23 photos)
Read More“I’ve always been a man rich in deprivations. When I paint, some people say I’m crazy, others that I’m not able to. And when I fill the canvas with my own quirky slip ups, there —in the most profound depths— I ask: Did nature present abstractionism to the world with the first blind person?” (11 photos)
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