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The Feast of Marabana
Every November since 1986, the Cuban capital welcomes athletes from Cuba and other countries who register to participate in Marabana, the popular race with the highest number of participants in the largest of the Antilles.The meeting has great international prestige, since the Marabana race circuit is certified by the World Marathon Association (AIMS) and the International Athletics Federation (IAAF).
(Maya Quiroga, with information from Prensa Latina and EcuRed)
Photos by Paco Bou
Teodoro Guerrero, Cuban Novelist Prefaced by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
The name Teodoro Guerrero y Pallarés (Havana, 1824 - Madrid, 1904) doesn’t say much even to a connoisseur of Cuban literature. But it’s worth remembering it even just for the fact that renowned writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda prefaced one of his more than twenty novels.
Dulce María Loynaz, Lyric Narrator
The complete works of Dulce Maria Loynaz (1902-1997) were published in Cuba after she received the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1992. The General's Daughter, as she once defined herself, left us singular narrative texts as evidence of her genius, although she considered writing prose more difficult than poems.
Francisco Chofre and his Parody of a Homeric Text
Quite a few authors have undertaken the task of rewriting the myth of Ulysses. Valencia-born writer Francisco Chofre (1924-1999), who lived most of his life in Cuba, did it using parody.
Juana Borrero and the Mystery of Poetic Involvement
Juana Borrero (1878-1896), Cuban painter and writer, knew herself at eighteen years of age as saint and panther, no matter how many other pseudonyms she used in her epistolary monologues to Carlos Pío Uhrbach, her fiancé.
The Luxuriant Tree of Young Cuban Jazz
Towards the end of the last century, the initiative of a dreamer, supported by musicians and enthusiasts and backed by an institution, was the seed that germinated and became the luxuriant tree of Cuban jazz.
read more >>Yusnier Mentado, Much More than Fireflies in Nocturnal Scene Illusion.
Taking advantage of the new technologies of the EmergingMedia, artist YusnierMentadohas recreated a completely black skywhere fireflies or glowworm beetles wander - a metaphor of contemporary frustrations
read more >>Georges Méliès: Unmatched Magician of Film
The year 2013 is coming to an end and human beings still fantasize about going to the moon, a place conquered through the genius of cinematographic tricks - Georges Méliès in Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon), the first science fiction movie in film history.
read more >>Rodando se encuentran: An Exhibit in Honor of National Culture Day
Among artists, art students, specialists or experts, there is a common feeling and desire to preserve heritage, as shown in the exhibit Rodando se encuentran, which pays tribute to National Culture Day in Cuba.
read more >>Revelation of the Week: Highly Valued Works Shine at Auctions
Good Sale of Contemporary Cuban Art at Phillips
read more >>Henrik Comes to Havana with Multiple Stagings
The cultural life of the Cuban capital was more active than usual at the beginning of November, inclined towards the northwestern European region.
On Orality and Resistance in the Caribbean Context
During the conference he gave at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana, professor Jean Bernabé defined orality as “collective memory of the word.”
Corales... before the 35th Festival
Corales (Corals) is the title of the special programming that the Yara movie theater will exhibit from Thursday, November 21 to December 1 - a selection of prize-winning movies throughout the history of the New Latin American International Film Festival.
Imperio Argentina at Havana’s América Theater
Born on Chacabuco Street, Buenos Aires on December 26, 1905, the daughter of Gibraltarian guitarist Antonio Nile and Spanish dancer Rosario del Río, Imperio Argentina is among the great celebrities of 20th century Spanish song.
A Crocodile Story
The premiere of the documentary Crocodile Men, by filmmaker Liván Magdaleno, also a professor and assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts in Audiovisual Media Studies (FAMCA), was shown on November 21 at Havana’s Infanta Multi-screen Movie Complex.
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