EGREM, Cuba’s oldest record label and music company, is turning fifty. To celebrate the occasion, several artists are offering concerts, attending galas and launching new albums. One of the dance companies taking part in the festivities is Danza Contemporanea. (30 photos)
Read MoreThe Agro-Food Fair (FIAGROP 2014) officially opened Monday at the Boyeros fairgrounds in Havana. Each year this event facilitates the introduction of foreign, mixed and national firms for trade in agroindustry in all its aspects. (38 photos)
Read MoreThe room is completely dark. Suddenly, a light settles on a pair of legs moving frantically to and fro. Thus begins Posible imposible (“The Possible Impossible”), a contemporary dance performance co-produced by Sweden’s Memory Wax company and Cuba’s Retazos dance and theater group, which premiered in Havana on Friday, March 7.(31 photos)
Read MoreVirtually every day this HT photographer hits the pavement in search of those daily life images that capture the essence of the Cuban capital and its people. You’ve seen many of his images accompanying our articles and also appearing on the HT Facebook page. Here’s a selection of his work. (88 photos)
Read MoreAfter over 40 years of being closed, Havana’s Marti Theater was reopened the last week of February. We visited the theater a few days later to capture some of the restoration work in pictures. (28 photos)
Read MoreHavana is not a city that is characterized by bright lighting or neon signs advertising products. The energy crisis that the country went through in the 1990s reduced street illumination to a minimum. Gradually, the capital has recovered some of the night time beauty, with lighting on the larger avenues and major streets. (23 photos)
Read MoreThis year, I went to Havana’s International Book Fair like someone who believes in miracles: with my fingers crossed behind my back, hoping something had changed. I thought it a good sign that, this time around, the entrance tickets weren’t made of newsprint. (36 photos)
Read MoreThe polychaet I recently had in my aquarium is an amazing animal nearly everyone recognizes. It ended up in my fish tank on the request of my nephew who, scuba diving with me one day, suggested I take it home to marvel at its behavior. (10 photos)
Read MoreIt’s dawn in the Cuban capital. The sun begins to rise on the horizon and little by little chases off the last shadows of the early morning. Havana begins to move with the hustle and bustle of a new day. (26 photos)
Read MoreCampo Florido is a town located in Havana’s municipality of Habana del Este. Five kilometers from Guanabo and sixteen from Guanabacoa, the town was built on the La Victoria valley, part of the Havana-Matanzas plain. (30 photos)
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