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Ernan Lopez Nussa

Ignacio Cervantes's music in Concert

Basílica Menor del Convento de San Francisco de Asís
Oficios y Churruca, La Habana Vieja

Tel.
+53 (0) 7 861 9683
Thursday 5 July, 6:00 pm
 
Concert by pianists Ulises Hernández, Ivette Frontela, Ernán López-Nussa and Antonio Carbonell, who will play works by composer Ignacio Cervantes, a principal force of 19th-century musical Romanticism in Cuba, with the special performance of reciter Luis Carbonell and the special guest appearance of the Grammy-nominated Camerata Romeu.


Rosa Fornes

Bach, Vivaldi and Corelli

Basílica Menor del Convento de San Francisco de Asís
Oficios y Churruca, La Habana Vieja

Tel. +53 (0) 7 861 9683
Friday 6 July, 6:00 pm
 
Celebrated Cuban violinist and teacher Evelio Tieles will play together with Nuestro Tiempo, an instrumental music ensemble directed by Enrique Pérez Mesa, with a program that includes works by Bach, Vivaldi and Corelli, just to mention a few.


Javier Zalba
  La Bohème

Sala García Lorca, Gran Teatro de La Habana
Prado entre San José y San Rafael, Centro Habana

Tel.+53 (0) 7 861 3077-79
20-22 and 27-29 July, 5:00 pm .
 
Season of the Teatro Lírico Nacional with Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, one of the favourite operas by lovers of the bel canto.


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The Four Seasons
Basílica Menor del Convento de San Francisco de Asís,
Oficios y Churruca, La Habana Vieja
+53 (0) 7 861 9683
Saturday 21July, 6:00 pm
 
Concert by the Camerata Romeu, an all-female chamber ensemble directed by Zenaida Romeu, which will be playing one of the most well-liked compositions of the Baroque repertoire: The Four Seasons, by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.


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The Merry Widow
Anfiteatro del Centro Histórico
Avenida del Puerto entre Cuba y Peña Pobre, Habana Vieja
Saturdays and Sundays July, 9:00 pm .
 
Version in concert of the famous operetta The Merry Widow, by Franz Lehar, staged by Alfonso Menéndez with performances by Maylú Hernández, José Luis Pérez, Rigoberto López, Yani Martín Báez, Helbert Campaña, Kelvyn Espinosa, Delvis Fernández and Michel Ahumada, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Gran Teatro de La Habana, the Ballet of Cuban Television and the choir of the del Teatro Lírico Nacional de Cuba.


Dance
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Cuban Spanish Dance Company


La casa Alba (The House of Alba)

Sala García Lorca, Gran Teatro de La Habana
Prado entre San José y San Rafael, Centro Habana

Tel. +53 (0) 8 61 3077 al 79
Saturday 7 July, 8:30 pm,
Sunday 8 July, 5:00 pm
  Performances by the Ballet Español de Cuba, with La casa Alba, choreographed by Eduardo Veitía, principal dancer and director of the company, based on Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, which tells the tragic story of a mother and her daughters who are torn between their passion and the conventionalisms and repression being put on them.


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Chorus perpetuos

Ninth Floor of the Teatro Nacional
Paseo y 39, El Vedado
Tel.+53 (0) 8 70 4655 / Tel.+53 (0) 8 79 6011
Fridays 13, 20, 27July;
Saturdays 14, 21, 28 July;
Sundays 15, 22, 29 July, 7:00 pm
 
Season of DanzAbierta, directed by choreographer and dancer Marianela Boán, with Chorus perpetuos, a sample of this dance ensemble's aesthetic. The company explores the new avant-garde of contemporary dance: 'dance theatre, post-modern dance, Cuban culture'-in the words of Boán- in addition to technical elements of ballet and Chinese gymnastics.


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Time out of Memory

Sala García Lorca, Gran Teatro de La Habana
Prado entre San José y San Rafael, Centro Habana

Tel.+53 (0) 8 61 3077-79
Saturday 14 July, 8:30 pm;
Sunday 15 July, 5:00 pm
  The Ballet Nacional de Cuba, directed by Alicia Alonso, will dance Time out of Memory, by Canadian choreographer Brian MacDonald, who has collaborated on several occasions with the Cuban ballet company.


El Patio de la Rumba

El Patio de la Rumba

El Palenque
Calle 6 entre Calzada y 5ta, El Vedado
Saturdays July, 3:00 pm
 
"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.


Theatre
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Contradanza

Contradanza

Sala Adolfo Llauradó
Calle 11 entre D y E, El Vedado

Tel.+53 (0) 8 32 5373
July 7-29, Fridays and Saturdays, 8:30 pm; Sundays, 5:00 pm
 
Rerun of Contradanza-written in 1978 by Valencian poet, playwright and scriptwriter Francisco Ors-by the Mefisto theatre company, directed by Tony Díaz. Set in Elizabethan England, this controversial play depicts the Queen as a transvestite who had to change his identity in order to avoid death. Although it does not dismiss the resources of the comedy of intrigue, it is a thesis drama that bravely and uninhibitedly puts forward gay issues.


The Wish

The Wish

Sala Hubert de Blanck
Calzada 65, entre A y B, El Vedado

Tel.+53 (0) 8 30 1011
Fridays and Saturdays July, 8:30 pm,
Sundays July, 5:30 pm
 
The Hubert de Blanck theatre company opens The Desire, directed by María Elena Soteras and written by prize-winning playwright Víctor Hugo Rascón, one of the most authoritative voices of the contemporary Mexican stage. The plot deals with a New York academician in her early fifties who is involved in a passionate love affair with a twenty-five-year old Colombian driver, with the unavoidable and forseeable generational and cultural contradictions.


Living in Diagonal

Living in Diagonal

Sala Argos Teatro
Ayestarán y 20 de Mayo, El Cerro
Fridays and Saturdays July, 8:30 pm;
Sundays July, 5:30 pm
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Directed by Carlos Cedrán, Argos Teatro premieres Living in Diagonal, the first play written by young playwright Felipe Espinet in 1994, which deals with the distressing consequences of migration and uprootedness, a recurrent topic in the Cuban literary and artistic production of the last decades.


S.O.S. Pelusín
  S.O.S. Pelusín

Teatro Nacional de Guiñol
Calle M entre 19 y 21, El Vedado

Tel. 832 6267 / 8292
Friday 5 pm;
Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 am and 5 pm
 
In S.O.S. Pelusín-staged by Guiñol Nacional de Cuba, with costumes, puppetry and set design by Armando Morales-prize-winning playwright Esther Suárez Durán continues to build on a character created in 1956 by storyteller Dora Alonso, and which, since then, has been an endearing presence for several generations of Cubans: Pelusín del Monte y Pérez del Corcho, who, as a peasant boy, will have to face, with his usual freshness and imagination, such contemporary problems as racism, abuse of power and social marginality, in keeping with an increasing trend in storytelling for children: not hiding the ugliness of life from kids.
Visual Arts
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José Luis (El Gallego) Posada
  Exhibition 5 Abstract Painters

Galería Villa Manuela
Calle H entre 17 y 19, El Vedado

Tel.+53 (0) 7 832 2391
 
 
The exhibit 5 Abstract Painters, with works by Julia Valdés, Pedro de Oraá, Juan Vázquez Martín, Raúl Santos Serpa and Danilo Vinardel, shows that although abstract art in Cuba is not very much promoted, it is not devoid of solid followers.


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Exhibition Voyage to Infinity

Memorial José Martí
Plaza de la Revolución
 
 
In commenting on the paintings presented in this exhibition, Ileana Mulet-confessed debtor of Byelorussian-born painter Marc Chagall-considers that 'the child's world is here asserted, colour becomes more brilliant, with strokes of abstractionism without abandoning figurative elements.'


Utopian Landscapes
  Exhibition Utopian Landscapes

Museo de Arte Colonial
San Ignacio 61, entre Empedrado y O'Reilly, Plaza de la Catedral, La Habana Vieja

Tel.+53 (0) 7 861 6440
Desde el lunes 18 de junio.
  An exhibit by photographer Juan Carlos Romero, who, in the words of painter Roberto Fabelo, 'shows that his frequent visits to artistic circles, his relationship with artists, and his devoted patience at every exhibition were not sheer snooping, but something more complex and sublime, which has made him cling to creation in the same manner that the trees in his pictures cling to old walls and ruins with force and vitality, fighting to live, expressing and symbolizing a capacity for resistance and survival which are very familiar and endearing to use.'


casabe

Exhibition Casabe y matajíbaro

Sala Joaquín Weiss, Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología
Convento de Santa Clara de Asís, calles Cuba, Habana, Sol y Luz, La Habana Vieja
A partir del 29.
 
A collective exhibition with the works of thirteen artists, young and acclaimed-Roberto Fabelo, Agustín Bejarano and Flora Fong, just to mention a few-who have three things in common: they were born in the province of Camagüey; they now live in Havana; and they express, with originality and mastery, motives of contemporary Cuban art.


Ceramics_Exhibition

Ceramics Exhibition

Salón Blanco, Convento de San Francisco de Asís
Oficios y Churruca, La Habana Vieja

Tel.+53 (0) 7 861 9683.
A partir del 29.
 
This exhibition of ceramic pieces entered in the competition La Vasija, organized by the National Ceramics Museum, the National Council of Visual Arts and the City Historian's Office, gives the viewer the chance to get acquainted with the work of Cuban ceramists in the categories of vessels, installations with vessels and tile panels. The event's award declaration recognized 'the presence of an outstanding number of artists who, having chosen ceramics as an art form and a topic of such traditional connotation as vessels, have followed roads of high expressive levels making it an inseparable part of the active national artistic panorama today.'


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Tours of the Historical Centre

Begins at the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana
Wednesday through Friday, 10:00 am
 
As part of the public awareness program among the population of the city on the restoration and preservation of the Historical Centre, and as a cultural option of enjoyment during the summer holidays, the City Historian's Office organizes tours of the Historical Centre by expert guides.

Wednesdays: Andar por las presencias culturales constitutes an approach to different cultures that have left their mark on the city.
11 July: The African presence
18 July: The Arab presence

Thursdays: Andar la arquitectura offers detailed and interesting information on the principal restoration works.
12 July: Heritage in Danger I
19 July: Heritage in Danger II

Fridays: Andar con los andantes is designed according to requests made by participants from previous years and to the proposals made by museologists and experts.
13 July: Metal Art
20 July: Ceramics in the Historical Centre

Tickets will be sold starting on 11 July, Monday-Sunday, from 9:00 am-6:00 pm at the following venues in La Habana Vieja:


* Museo de la Ciudad
   Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, Plaza de Armas

* Museo de Arte Colonial
   San Ignacio 61, entre Empedrado y O'Reilly, Plaza de la Catedral
* Convento de San Francisco de Asís
   Calle Oficios y Churruca

* Museo Casa Natal de José Martí
   Calle Leonor Pérez 314, entre Picota y Egido

* Maqueta del Centro Histórico

   Calle Mercaderes, entre Obispo y Obra Pía
 
Literature
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Abel González Melo

Two new books

 
Alarcos Editions has just published two new books by young playwright Abel González Melo: Chamaco, a play staged by Argos Teatro and which was awarded the Villanueva Critics Prize for the best staging of 2006. In the words of Carlos Celdrán, director of the Company as well as the staging, "it penetrates the reality that it touches on.it blurs its most obvious, expected and local context, and creates an essential image behind situations and words, an image that unravels possible fragments of a painful and elusive Havana." From Abril publishing house comes El hábito y la virtud, inspired by narrator and essayist, Minister of Culture Abel Prieto's novel The Flight of the Cat. The play was awarded the 2005 Calendario Prize and will be premiered late this month by Teatro Icarón, a theatre company from the province of Matanzas, directed by Miriam Muñoz. On the occasion of the launching of the book, Critic Luciano Castillo said, "This playwright has written a book of over three hundred pages, searching for the episodes which, decade after decade, since the 1960s, have marked the intertwining of the lives of each of its characters," archetypes of a generation that was in its teens in those particularly convulsive years. This book is an excellent opportunity for readers to get acquainted with the work for the theatre by poet, essayist and lecturer González Melo's, who is also one of the most original and incisive Cuban playwrights today.


Book Night Festival

Book Night Festival

Calle 23, from 14th St. to Malecón
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Saturday 6, starts at 4:00 pm
 
The Book Night Festival will be the kick-off for the Summer Readings gathering, which will take place during July and August. Groups Mirón Cubano and Gigantería will open this celebration which includes readings by more than twenty Cuban story-tellers of several generations; a meeting with best-selling detective story writer Daniel Chavarría and his books; tributes to filmmakers Juan Padrón and Jorge Oliver; talks with stars of Cuban sports; book sales; record launchings; film exhibits; literary cafes; poetry and trova recitals; and a gift collection of 20 postcards with love poems. The closing ceremony will begin at 10:00 pm at the waterfall of the Hotel Nacional with a concert which, according to its organizers, is scheduled to carry on until the early hours of the morning,




Circus
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The Enchanted Lamp

The Enchanted Lamp

Carpa Trompocolo
Quinta Avenida y calle 112, Playa
From 6 July to the end of September,
Tuesday-Sunday, 8:00 pm
 
The Circo Nacional opens the summer season with The Enchanted Lamp, directed, written and choreographed by Alberto Alonso, creator of emblematic pieces of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, who using the character of Aladdin as a pretext, has conceived a bright and colourful show in which acrobats, contortionists, jugglers, magicians, tightrope walkers, clowns and fire-eaters will delight both kids and adults.


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