Contemporary Cuban Art… Now on Sale
Cuba’s first art exhibition and sale event, organized by the National Visual Arts Center and displaying the works of contemporary Cuban artists under the age of 35, began on November 1. (25 photos)
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Photo Feature
HT Cuba Photo Contest WINNERS for 2013
With the publication of the winners & special mentions we conclude the 5th HT Photo Contest. This year we had three winners from Cuba: Jaime Prendes (Gardens), Eduardo Garcia (Lines) & Orlando Garcia (Dance). Linda Klip´(USA) won for (Transportation) & Marcin Jucha (UK) for (Rain). (15 photos)
Read MoreDanza Abierta of Cuba at the Women Create Festival
The Danza Abierta Company presented fragments of “Showroom” and of the work in progress “Sinfonia de sentidos” (Symphony of senses”) by Susana Pous, a Spanish dancer and choreographer living in Cuba, at the recently concluded Women Create Festival in Havana. (x photos)
Read MoreYusa and Yissy Close Havana’s Female Artists Festival
Cuban musicians Yusa and Yissy Garcia took the stage together for the first time at a concert held in Old Havana’s Plaza Vieja to close the Ellas Crean (“Women in the Arts”) Festival. (26 photos)
Read MoreFlowers to Remember Camilo Cienfuegos
Camilo Cienfuegos was one of the most charismatic and beloved leaders of the Cuban revolution. He died just 10 months after the revolutionary triumph in a plane crash over the sea. Year after year, every October 28, the day of his death, Camilo is remembered with a pilgrimage to the sea. (36 photos)
Read MoreSt. Jude Day in Santiago de Cuba
The religiosity of Cubans is quite evident on October 28, which is dedicated to St. Jude Thaddeus. Considered the attorney of impossible causes, he is one of the most beloved Catholic saints. On Monday afternoon the cathedral of Santiago de Cuba, welcomed hundreds of parishioners and lay visitors. (17 photos)
Read MoreHavana Theatre Festival Begins Speechless
The total absence of words seems to be the common element between the two works that opened the 15th Havana Theatre Festival this past week at the National Theater of Cuba. Troupes from 18 countries and all over Cuba will be performing through Nov. 3. (28 photos)
Read MoreHT Cuba 5th Photo Contest FINALISTS
The 20-member jury of the 5th HT Cuba Photo Contest is currently making their selections among the finalists. Thirty-one photographers have at least one photo in the final round. Sixteen of those have two or more entries in the finals. (58 photos)
Read MoreSantiago de Cuba: Post Sandy Reconstruction Brings Contrasts & Questions
Exactly a year after Hurricane Sandy hit Santago de Cuba there is something of a pebble in many people’s shoes: if so much damage was done to people’s homes, why were so many resources destined to other projects? (20 photos)
Read MoreA Year After Hurricane Sandy Hit Cuba
In the days before Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast of the USA, it made a disastrous run through the Caribbean. Just after midnight, on the morning of October 25, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba’s second-largest city, devastating the area overnight.(21 photos)
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