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The Casa de las Américas Literary Award
Casa de las Américas
Calle 3ra y G, El Vedado
Tel. +(53) 7 838 2706-09
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21-31 January
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Unpublished works of poetry, short stories and social historical essays; non-fiction works written by Brazilian authors in Portuguese and published during 2006-2007; and books published from 2004-2007 by French-speaking Caribbean writers will all be competing during the 49th edition of this prestigious Latin American literary award. There will also be lectures and readings by the jurors, as well as the launching of last year’s prize-winning books: Mil y una, a novel by Susana Silvestre (Argentina); Los juegos de la escritura o la (re) escritura de la Historia, an essay by Alberto Abreu (Cuba); Oblivion, a testimony by Edda Fabbri (Uruguay); Heptalogía de Hieronymus Bosch: 6. La paranoia, a play by Rafael Spregelburd (Argentina); and Um defeito de cor by Ana Maria Gonçalves (Brazilian literature). Other launchings will include last year’s special award-winning books Cantar de lejanía (poetry) by Juan Manuel Roca from Colombia; El espejo que tiembla (fiction) by Abelardo Castillo from Argentina); and La pantalla rota. Cien años de cine en Centroamérica (essay) by María Lourdes Cortés from Costa Rica.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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A new edition—illustrated by Cuban painter Roberto Fabelo—of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude has been recently launched to mark the Colombian Nobel prize-winner’s 80th birthday and the 40th anniversary of his most famous work, a classic of Spanish-American Literature. Available in important bookstores throughout Cuba.
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En el cielo con diamantes [In the Sky With Diamonds]
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Cuban author Senel Paz’s latest novel takes a look into the school years of David—one of the two main characters of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Oscar-nominated film Fresa y chocolate [Strawberry and Chocolate, written by Senel Paz himself. The reader learns of David’s youthful days through his friend Arnaldo up until his meeting with Diego at Coppelia ice-cream parlour, where the movie begins.
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Festival de Música Antigua Esteban Salas
Basílica Menor del convento de San Francisco de Asís
Oficios entre Amargura y Churruca, La Habana Vieja
Tel. +(53) 7 862 9683
Iglesia de San Francisco de Paula
Desamparados y San Ignacio, La Habana Vieja
Tel. +(53) 7 860 4210
And other venues in the city’s Historical Centre
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The Esteban Salas Early Music Seasons in 2000 and 2002 became a festival in 2003 as part of the activities of the “Salas Year" to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of the Cuban musician whose musical scores were first preserved. Every year, the Festival gathers outstanding performers of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music who perform at the Historical Centre of Old Havana, together with their Cuban colleagues, headed by the Ars Longa Early Music Ensemble. The Festival‘s first venues were the Basílica Menor of the San Francisco de Asís Convent and the Iglesia de Paula, but it has now spread to other venues in Old Havana, such as the Oratorio San Felipe Neri, the Centro Hispano-Americano de Cultura or the Palacio de Gobierno. For the complete program and reservations for the concerts at the San Francisco de Asís Convent, visit www.ohch.cu, the City Historian’s Office official web site.
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Cuban Music of the 20th Century
Basílica Menor del convento de San Francisco de Asís
Oficios entre Amargura y Churruca, La Habana Vieja
Tel. +(53) 7 862 9683
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Sat 5, 6 pm
Cuban music of the past century performed by pianist Marita Rodríguez and clarinettist Vicente Monterrey, together with the soprano Conchita Franqui.
Fri 11 Jan, 6 pm
Pianist Maité Aboy, violinist Desirée Justo Castilla, and clarinettist Mahé Marty Maletá will perform works by Igor Stravinsky and Johannes Brahms.
Sat 12 Jan, 6 pm
Aimara Magaña at the oboe and María Victoria del Collado at the piano will perform works by Clara Schumann and Camile Saint-Säens.
Fri 18 Jan, 6 pm
Sax virtuoso Javier Zalba and pianist María del Henar Navarro have selected an interesting repertory of chamber music with a strong jazz influence to bring down the barriers between classical and popular music.
Sat 19 Jan, 6 pm
From Germany, pianist Clemens Kröger will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Piazzola and Lecuona.
Mon 28 Jan, 6 pm
On the occasion of the anniversary of Habana Radio, the City Historian’s Office radio station, a concert by pianist María Victoria del Collado and violinist Alfredo Muñoz—Special prize winner at Cubadisco 2007 for his recordings of unpublished works by Cuban composer Alejandro García Caturla—and flautist Niurka González, one of the most talented performers of this instrument in Cuba today.
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National Band
Calle Tacón entre O'Reilly y Obispo
(Wooden Street at the Plaza de Armas), Old Havana
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Weekly performances by the Banda Nacional, a hundred-year-old orchestra that has delighted several generations of habaneros and visitors alike with its own versions of concert and popular Cuban and international music.
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Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional
Sala Roldán, Amadeo Roldán Theatre
Calzada y D, El Vedado
Tel. +(53) 7 832 4521-22
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Regular concerts of Cuban and international music by the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, the most important and oldest philharmonic of Cuba.
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Retratos
Sala teatro El Sótano
Calle K entre 25 y 27, El Vedado
Tel.
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4, 5 and 6 Jan; Fri and Sat, 8:30 pm
Sun, 5 pm
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The Rita Montaner theatre company presents Retratos, a play directed by Fernando Quiñones, and written by young Cuban playwright Lilian Susel Zaldívar de los Reyes. The play, which received the 2006 Drama Award from the Royal Court of London, reflects on such concepts as ‘homeland’ and ‘family’ drawing on the character of a young woman who has been living abroad and on a visit to her country, decides to stay.
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Pelusín enamora’o
Sala teatro Hubert de Blanck
Calzada 657 entre A y B, El Vedado
Tel.+(53) 7 830 1011
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The Nueva Línea group, directed by Yaqui Saiz, reruns Esther Suárez Durán’s Pelusín enamora’o, a production which was awarded the 2007 Villanueva Award. Pelusín del Monte, the puppet created by Cuban author Dora Alonso during the last century, is back for the delight of the kiddies.
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Fátima, reina de la noche
Teatro Nacional de Guiñol
Calle M entre 19 y 21, El Vedado
Tel. +(53) 7 832 6262/8292
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8 to 31 Jan; Tue, Wed and Thu, 6 pm |
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The Teatro Tres theatre company continues presenting Fátima, reina de la noche, an adaptation of Miguel Barnet’s short story “Fátima o el Parque de la Fraternidad", winner of the prestigious 2006 Juan Rulfo Award, which reveals the private affairs of Fátima-Manuel, a transvestite—transsexual?—from the Havana of our times.
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El concierto
Sala teatro El Sótano
Calle K entre 25 y 27, El Vedado
Tel.
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11 to 27 Jan; Fri and Sat, 8:30 pm
Sun, 5 pm
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The Rita Montaner theatre company, directed by Gerardo Fullera León, presents El concierto, written by young playwright Ulises Rodríguez Febles with music by The Beatles. The play recreates the controversial Cuban 60s by way of a rock fan who inspired by the inauguration of John Lennon’s statue in Havana, resolves to reorganize Los Cruzados [The Crusaders], a rock group with which he used to play but was dissolved during those years.
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Piel de Asno
Teatro Nacional de Guiñol
Calle M entre 19 y 21, El Vedado
Tel.
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1 to 13 Jan; Tue and Wed, 5 pm; Fri, 3 pm
Sat and Sun, 10:30 pm and 5 pm
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The National Puppet Theatre presents Piel de Asno [Donkey Skin] by Cuban playwright Ignacio Gutiérrez, directed by Ricardo Garal, with Rigel González, Santiago Montero, Mario González and Gilda de la Mata in the leads; a play that through the adaptation of a traditional tale of the universal repertory seeks to inculcate, in a non-preachy manner, eternal values of man.
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Shakespeare y sus máscaras o Romeo y Julieta
Gran Teatro de La Habana
Prado entre San José y San Rafael, Centro Habana
Tel.+(53) 7 861 3077-79
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1st, 3, 4, 5, 6 Jan; Tue & Sun 5 pm
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The Cuban National Ballet presents Shakespeare y sus máscaras o Romeo y Julieta, choreographed by Alicia Alonso and written by José Ramón Neyra, on Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy; music by Charles Gounod with orchestra adaptation by Juan Piñera, and set design by Ricardo Reymena.
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El Patio de la Rumba
El Palenque
Calle 4 entre Calzada y 5ta, El Vedado
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“The Rumba Patio", a weekly meeting with dancers and musicians from the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional and guests, dedicated to rumba, one of the most popular Cuban musical and dance genres.
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Exhibitions
Galería La Acacia
San José 114, entre Industria y Consulado, Centro Habana
Tel.+(53) 7 863 9364/861 3533
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Agua y metal
, eight sculptures in patinated bronze flanked by eight medium-sized watercolours of disturbing and symbolic still lifes, by painter, engraver, sculptor, muralist and photographer Arturo Montoto.
Constelaciones
, by engraver and painter Agustín Bejarano, delves into the eternal drama of the lack of communication between men.
In Horizontes para jugar,
Ernesto García Peña’s oils and watercolours ratify his mastery in the use of colour and transparencies, and his surprising transformations of the feminine figure into birds and butterflies.
Ensamblajes
—sculptors in wood and sketches by Osvaldo Llins—allows the viewer to appreciate the human figure immersed both in the everyday world and the mythological world of the yoruba religion.
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De un extraño pueblo
Galería Servando
Calle 23 esquina a 10, El Vedado
Tel.+(53) 7 833 9599
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Mythical towns and cities by young painter Vicente Hernández.
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Fuego fatuo
Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño
Oficios 362 esquina a Luz, La Habana Vieja
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A personal exhibition by Ulises Urra Hernández who searches for new connotations and interpretations in established conceptions and perceptions.
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XII Taller de Antropología Social y Cultural Afroamericana
XII Taller de Antropología Social y Cultural Afroamericana
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The 12th Afro-American Social and Cultural Anthropology Workshop will address a number of topics that include culture and identity, popular religions and fraternities of African origin, gender in Africa, the role of museums in the anthropological work, and others. Several exhibitions will be held as part of the event:
Cimarrón
(Pia Schjøll, Denmark)
Casa de África
Calle Obrapía 157 entre Mercaderes y San Ignacio, La Habana Vieja
Tel.+(53) 7 861 5798
Región afromestiza del estado de Guerrero
(Ricardo Infante, México)
Casa del Benemérito de las Américas Benito Juárez
Calle Obrapía 116 entre Mercaderes y Oficios, La Habana Vieja
Tel. +(53) 7 861 8166
Visiones de caminos
(Gloria Viggiani, Venezuela)
Con luz propia
(Noelvis Valdivieso, Cuba)
Transfiguraciones
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Darian González, Cuba)
Casa Simón Bolívar
Calle Mercaderes 158 entre Obrapía y Lamparilla, La Habana Vieja
Tel. +(53) 7 861 3988
Arte rupestre dell'ACACUS—Libya
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photographer Filippo Gallino, Italy)
Casa Alejandro de Humboldt
Calle Oficios esquina a Sol, La Habana Vieja
Tel. +(53) 7 863 9850
The event will extend to the province of Matanzas during the 8th and 9th of January with lectures and four exhibits:
Yemayá y sus siete caminos
(Maria Giulia Alemanno, Italy)
Ritual brujo
(photographer Ramón Bruzón Fuentes, Cuba)
Sedimentos sagrados
(Ruddy Fernández, Cuba)
Porrones
(Ramón Vargas, Cuba)
Asociación Cubana de Artesanos Artistas
Calle Medio No. 26, Matanzas
On the 6th of January, the Cabildo Afrocubano will fill the streets and plazas of Old Havana’s Historical Centre with their ancestral songs and dances.
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Circo Orishas
Carpa Trompocolo
5ta Avenida y calle 112, Playa
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The Circo Nacional presents Circo Orishas, directed by María Elayne López: a singular approach to the topic of gods of the yoruba religion of African origin through gymnastics, acrobatics, equilibrium, and others.
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A PREVIEW OF THE COMING MONTHS
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Festival del Monólogo Cubano
February 2008
Tomás Terry Theatre, Cienfuegos
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Sponsored by the Tomas Terry Theatre in Cienfuegos, this Monologue Festival was launched in 2003 with the aim of validating a genre, which by nature demands intense commitment of playwrights as well as actors. Despite being one of the newer events in the domestic cultural scene, this festival has already achieved a standing in the Cuban stage, and at present the most renowned Cuban playwrights, directors, actors and actresses compete in the beautiful Terry theatre. Awards during the 2007 Festival went to the play El otro Javier, by experienced playwright Gerardo Fulleda León; actress María Gema Castro, actor Osvaldo Doimeadiós, and director Carlos Díaz, from Teatro El Público.
In the context of the festival and as a tribute to the 35th anniversary of the Nueva Trova movement, a new book on the topic has just been published: La canción de la Nueva Trova, by journalist Antonio López Sánchez, a collection of interviews to renowned figures of the Nueva Trova movement in Cuba, as well as other public figures who were central to the creation and development of this movement.
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Feria Internacional del Libro
13 February to 9 March
Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña in Havana
and other 40 cities throughout Cuba
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What began as a modest Book Festival founded by Alejo Carpentier in the vicinity of Havana’s Central Park, would eventually become the most important book and literary event in Cuba. The 18th International Book Fair will be dedicated to award-winning writers Antón Arrufat and Graziella Pogolotti—who are both National Literature Prize laureates—and Galicia as the country guest of honour. Tens of thousands of people will pack the centenary San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress from February 13 to 24 February (with sub-venues at Pabellón Cuba and the Rancho Boyeros Fair), attracted by book launchings of all genre and topics from Cuban and foreign publishing houses, panel discussions, lectures, poetry readings, concerts, children’s shows, and crafts fair. The Fair will travel after 24th to other Cuban.
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Festival Internacional de la Trova Pepe Sánchez
March 2008
Casa de la Trova and Sala de Conciertos Dolores
Santiago de Cuba
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These festivals began in 1962 as homage to Santiago de Cuba-born composer José (Pepe) Sánchez (1856-1918), considered the father of the Cuban trova. Several generations of musicians from different musical trends within this genre have participated in this event, including exponents of the most traditional trova music, of filin (an evolution of bolero and trova), and of the so-called ‘nueva trova’. Santiago de Cuba—the cradle of the Cuban song—hosts this festivity which goes beyond the established settings and takes the city’s streets and parks by storm in a celebration where musicians and singers from abroad join their Cuban counterparts. The closing of the festival on March 19th, Troubadour Day, in commemoration of the anniversary of the birth of Pepe Sanchez, becomes a special moment when the city awakens to the tune of delightful serenades.
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Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago Álvarez In Memoriam
6 to 11 March
Movie theatres Cuba and Rialto
Santiago de Cuba
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Created in 2000, this festival aims at highlighting the prominent role of the documentary, a film genre that has been somewhat consigned to oblivion by the promotional mechanisms of the larger movie festivals, yet with a tradition of significant quality and acknowledgement in Cuba, among other factors, thanks to the work of the late prize-winning Cuban film-maker, Santiago Alvarez. Although the festival began as a national event dedicated to the memory of the most relevant Cuban documentary maker of all time, throughout the years it has attracted the attention of a number of filmmakers from Latin America, Europe and the United States. With films in competition, parallel screenings and theoretical discussions, the Festival constitutes a space for exchanging opinions and experiences among filmmakers and lovers of this genre.
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Coloquio y Festival Internacional de Música y Poesía Nicolás Guillén 2008
17 to 21 March
Havana
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A homage to the 50th anniversary of La paloma de vuelo popular, a collection of poems written by the great Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén during his exile. Thus, the event will focus on the causes and consequences of exile in the artistic and literary production in different times and circumstances. Music recitals; poetry readings; popular, symphonic and coral music concerts; art exhibitions; lectures; and other activities have been announced during the event.
For more information, please contact Fundación Nicolás Guillén:
calle 17 número 351, esquina a H, El Vedado, La Habana;
Tel. +(53-7) 833 2080
fax +(53-7)833 3158
e-mail: albitafng@uh.cu.
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Coloquio internacional Cuatro Siglos de Literatura Cubana
La Havana
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Dedicated to the study of the most outstanding historical-literary processes of Cuba’s cultural
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