This summer (August 4-5) the Japanese shadow theatre company Kageboushi performed for the first time in Cuba - offering two free functions to the public - sponsored by the Japanese Embassy in Havana, Japanese Foundation and National Council of Performing Arts.
august 12, 2015@ 17:08:37 | Mireya Castañeda
Actress Amada Morado returns to center stage in a short film by Carlos Collazo, on the occasion of receiving the ACTUAR Prize for lifetime achievement
september 10, 2019@ 14:09:57 | Mireya Castañeda
VILLA MANUELA GALLERY
Lesbia Vent Dumois, president of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) Visual Arts Association is proud of the close to 100 expositions the gallery has hosted over the first decade of it existence.
august 14, 2014@ 13:08:13 | Mireya Castañeda
2017 HAVANA INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
The 26th Havana International Book Fair (February 9 - 19) returns to its usual main venue of the colonial fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña, with events also taking place across eleven other secondary venues in Havana, including the Pabellón Cuba, the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) headquarters, the Casa de las Américas, and the Centro Dulce María Loynaz
february 9, 2017@ 09:02:15 | Mireya Castañeda
SAN CARLOS DE LA CABAÑA FORTRESS
The fortress’ vaults serve as bookstores, with more than 600 new titles presented this year, while its bastions and parade grounds host tents for even more books
february 14, 2019@ 18:02:53 | Mireya Castañeda
For 65 years now, Cuba's most important rumba group, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, has earned admiration with their drums, singing, and dance, in an all-encompassing art form
november 6, 2017@ 14:11:19 | Mireya Castañeda
15TH INTERNATIONAL ERNEST HEMINGWAY COLLOQUIUM
Academics from several universities in the United States and Cuba, Latin American writers who portray the many faces of Hemingway, and a Japanese researcher striving to digitize thousands of his documents, were some of the participants in the fifteenth edition held in Havana, June 18-21
july 1, 2015@ 21:07:05 | Mireya Castañeda
16th HAVANA INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
THE 16th Havana International Theatre Festival, from October 22-31, will see 450 artists from 22 countries take to the stage
october 19, 2015@ 16:10:30 | Mireya Castañeda
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
One of the greatest figures of contemporary global cinema, Costa-Gravas, traveled to Havana to present his film Capital, included as a tribute work in the 18th French Cinema Festival, scheduled April 30 through the end of May.
The French-Greek filmmaker (Athens, 1933) held an extensive press and commented, “I make films about stories which touch me deeply.”
may 5, 2015@ 16:05:34 | Mireya Castañeda
A necessary historical, biographical, military atlas
march 22, 2017@ 09:03:22 | Mireya Castañeda