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Memorial to Hemingway in Cuba, despite
the U.S. government
January 8,
2007
THE fact that
Cuba has to date invested more than $200,000 to restore the Havana house where
the U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway lived, while the United States has refused to
support the works, was highlighted by various international news agencies that
covered the appearance of Manuel Palacios, president of the National Cultural
Heritage Council (CNPC) attached to the Ministry of Culture, at the celebrated
farm where the author of The Old Man and the Sea lived in San Francisco
de Paula. The $200,000 was further swelled by one million Cuban pesos given by
the Ministry of Culture and the state to rehabilitate La Vigía farm, according
to the CNPC president.
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2006 – A culturally impassioned year
January 5,
2007
IT is
almost obligatory. When a year ends one reflects back on it. It is fair to say
that that 2006 has offered many satisfactions in the cultural sphere. There has
been a daily enrichment of the spirit. One would expect any summary to start at
the beginning, but 2006 was marked by the great celebration organized by the
Guayasamín Foundation for President Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday. Organized for
August, the date of his birthday, it took place at the end of November at the
president’s request. As part of those festivities two exhibitions were opened,
one of 100 works by the eminent Ecuadorian painter in the National Museum of
Fine Arts...
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28th
Festival of New Latin American Cinema
Argentina and Brazil with 10
Corals each: the most prizes
December
15, 2006
IT was somewhat
expected, but not to such an extent, that the Coral prizes this year would be
shared among various films. There hasn’t been that great movie that grabs
immediate attention. The jury members appreciated certain interesting aspects of
each of the films in competition. And so 32 of them received prizes.
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28th Havana Film Festival
A new generation begins
winning awards
December
15, 2006
SOME
20 international and Cuban organizations have awarded their prizes, parallel to
the official competition, demonstrating that a new generation of filmmakers is
taking over the big screen and its awards, and at the same time, that Argentine,
Brazilian and Cuban filmmaking remains a powerful force on the continent.
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Oliver Stone
fined for filming in Cuba
December
13, 2006
THE U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has just fined
well-known filmmaker Oliver Stone for violating the laws of what they
euphemistically refer to as an embargo, actually nothing more than a barbaric,
brutal, systematic blockade, universally recognized as such and condemned by an
overwhelming majority in the United Nations.
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Hugo de Soto’s art in
Havana
December
8, 2006
THE
first exhibition of the works of Hugo de Soto (1928) in his native Cuba brings
together recent and other works from the City Museum collection. According to
City Historian Eusebio Leal, at the inauguration of this diverse display, “there
is no better place than this cloister of San Francisco, the birthplace of
important things for Cuba, and which is now a temple to art and high culture.”
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English for a year
and intra-history
December
8, 2006
Whoever believes
that historial themes contained within the world of fictional literature are the
exclusive territory of men, will find a categorical denial of that notion in the
work of Marta Rojas (Santiago de Cuba, 1931). As in the time of La Avellaneda,
the author of Inglesa por un año (English For A Year, Editorial Letras
Cubanas, 2006)...
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28TH HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL
The best movies for thousands of
spectators
November
21, 2006
THE freshest and most solid
films of the region will be competing on Havana’s big screens when projections
begin on December 5 for the 28th Latin American Film Festival. Alfredo Guevara,
the event’s chair, explained at a press conference that all the films selected
for the competition and other sections of the festival are quality ones, and of
interest to the Cuban public, “which we usually expect to number nothing less
than 500,000.”
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Celebrations on the
centenary of Compay Segundo’s birth
November
3, 2006
THE
Compay Segundo Casa Museo (House-Museum), honoring the legendary Cuban musician,
was inaugurated in Havana as part of the celebrations for the centenary of the
composer of “Chan Chan.” In a press conference at the Hotel Nacional, Salvador
Repilado, Compay’s son, said that the collection to be exhibited in the museum
consists of personal objects, instruments that his father used, and unpublished
photographs.
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Pablo Milanés wins Latin Grammy
Award
November
3, 2006
NEW YORK, November 2
— Cuban Pablo Milanés won the Latin Grammy award for Best Singer/Songwriter
Album for Como un campo de maíz (Like a Cornfield), during the seventh
edition of that awards ceremony, which was held for the first time in this city,
Notimex reported.
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20TH INTERNATIONAL
BALLET FESTIVAL OF HAVANA
Dedicated
to Mozart and choreographic creation
October 27, 2006
ACCORDING to diva Alicia Alonso, human beings express everything through dance,
given that through that creative form movement, music, theater and even painting
are united.
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COUNT OF LAGUNILLAS COLLECTION OF
ANCIENT ART
Exquisite pieces
from great cultures of humanity
October 20, 2006
THE dilemma of visiting museums or galleries such as the
Hermitage in St. Petersburg or that of the Uffizi family in Florence is in
trying to appreciate all their great treasures. Rafael’s “Madonna and Child”?
Botticelli’s “Three Graces”?
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Orham Pamuk, Nobel Literature Laureate 2006
October 13, 2006
THE
Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has won the 2006 Nobel Literature Prize, as the
Swedish Academy of Language, the institution that confers the highly prized
award, announced yesterday, according to international news agencies.
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Monument to truth, honesty and ethics
October 5, 2006
A monument to
truth, honesty and ethics — qualities consistent with the trajectory and ideas
of the leader of the Revolution — was the description given to the book Cien
horas con Fidel, which, in its second edition, revised and enriched with new
information, was launched on Wednesday, October 4 in the International
Conference Center, in the presence of French journalist and essayist Ignacio
Ramonet, the interlocutor of this valuable set of conversations.
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BOOK ON RESTORATION OF OLD HAVANA LAUNCHED
A truly remarkable
experience
September
26, 2006
The book
Una experiencia singular. Valoraciones del modelo de gestión integral de La
Habana Vieja, Patrimonio de la Humanidad (A Remarkable Experience.
Assessments of the Integral Action Model in the Old Havana World Heritage Site),
is a significant resource for understanding the restoration project devised and
put into practice by the City Historian’s Office.
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Latin America
as seen by five photographers
September
25, 2006
THE exhibition De este lado del mundo: cinco visiones fotográficas
latinoamericanas (From This Side of the World: Five Latin American
Photographic Visions), recently opened in Havana’s Majadahonda gallery, is an
intimate approach to the everyday qualities of our continent.
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Photo exhibition on Fidel Castro inaugurated
August
22, 2006
MORE than 100 people attended the August 21
opening of a photographic exhibition on revealing moments in the life of
President Fidel Castro at the International Press Center in Havana.
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Aznavour to record in Cuba
August
22, 2006
PARIS (SE).— The celebrated French singer Charles
Aznavour has announced his plan to travel to Havana to record a disc along with
Cuban pianist Chucho Valdéz.
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To Fidel, “everything
that I can give him, a little bit more than my music, even my person”
August
9, 2006
ON a
strange platform, behind an in style table, a bit incongruent with
the work and life itself of this trova musician, Silvio Rodríguez
launched his newest CD Erase que se era (Once Upon a Time).
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PAGES FROM
MAURICIO’S DIARY
New Cuban film
reaches the screen
July
14, 2006
CUBAN cinema has a new offering. This is the
feature film Páginas del Diario de Mauricio (Pages from Mauricio’s Diary),
by Manuel Pérez in a Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), Fénix PC and Estudios
Churubusco Azteca coproduction.
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ANTONIO GUERRERO’S
PORTRAITS
An inspiring
exhibition
July
13, 2006
ONES prison cell is no workshop for an artist. It is not that unlimited space in
view, full of light and, centrally, of freedom. Antonio (Tony) Guerrero, a man
of exceptional will and sensibility, has overturned that idea.
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MIAMI
5
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BOLEROS DE ORO
Perpetual feeling
July
4, 2006
THE first signs of the
genre arrived with the old trova musicians. Just that now life has
transformed their clothes in line with the times. From the second half of the
19th century it has been a kind of preparing the ground for emotions. Magical
and unpredictable, it is currently moving along many and dynamic paths.
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“IMPRONTA DE LA HERMANDAD” EXHIBITION
The magical power of images
June
22, 2006
THE
camera is just one of the aspects that unite
photographers Jorge Valiente (Cuba) and Bill
Hackwell (United States). Their work has a lot in
common, beyond differences of style.
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Large 18th century mural painting discovered in Bayamo
June 9, 2006
A unique artistic discovery has
injected renewed interest in the rich history of Bayamo, the capital of Cuba’s
southeastern province of Granma, the cradle of the country’s independence
movement.
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RAMONET: 100 HOURS
WITH FIDEL
My book is intended for the new
generations
May 23, 2006
"MY book is intended for the new
generations that have not had access to the thoughts, to the work of Fidel
Castro and that have difficulty learning about his work due to the wall of lies,
the slander, and the systematic criticism of the Cuban Revolution, especially in
Europe," affirmed French journalist Ignacio Ramonet at a press conference in
Havana on May 19.
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2006 CUBADISCO
AWARDS
"Añoranza por la
conga"
wins Song
of the Year
May
22, 2006
"AÑORANZA por la conga," by Ricardo Leyva and Sur Caribe (EGREM)
carried off the Song of the Year Award, established for this 10th international
festival of CUBADISCO 2006.
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Three further launches of One Hundred Hours with Fidel
May 19, 2006
IN the past few hours,
eminent French intellectual and journalist Ignacio Ramonet has presided over a
further three launches of his book Cien horas con Fidel (One Hundred Hours with
Fidel), at venues of particular symbolic value for our people: in the Birán area
of Holguin province; outside the replica of Fidel’s birthplace, and at the
former Saturnine Lora Civil Hospital in Santiago de Cuba where, on October 16,
1953, the leader of the Revolution gave his famous speech "History Will Absolve
Me."
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LATINO LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Silvio Rodríguez follows
his "buen camino"
May 8, 2006
CUBAN composer and singer Silvio Rodríguez
received the Latino Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th Music Academy Awards
Ceremony in Madrid, with the entire audience on its feet. During a gala at the
Palacio Municipal de Congresos del Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, he received the
prize from the hands of Spanish singer Luis Eduardo Aute, who described Silvio
as his "soulmate."
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Heroic
combatants, anonymous women
April
11, 2006
ANONYMOUS women. You may see them at the market,
or standing in line to get on the bus, or watering
their garden. They are as anonymous as they were 50
years ago during Cuba’s revolutionary struggle, when
they were combatants with the guerrilla forces in
the Sierra Maestra Mountains, many after having been
part of the urban underground movement.
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MANU CHAO IN THE
ANTI-IMPERIALIST TRIBUNAL
Thousands
rock to insurgency music
March
2, 2006
TENS of thousands of young people wrapped themselves
around Manu Chao last night in the concert he gave
in the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribunal, where
the famous Spanish-French singer-songwriter
reaffirmed his commitment to insurgency and protest
songs and affirmed his strong solidarity with Cuba.
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International Book Fair arrives in
central Cuba
February 20, 2006
THE 15th International Book Fair
arrives in central Cuba on Monday, February 20,
halfway through its nationwide tour, and will spend
a week in that region. Cienfuegos, Cumanayagua,
Santa Clara, Sagua la Grande, Sancti Spiritus,
Trinidad, Ciego de Avila, Morón, Camagüey, Nuevitas
and Florida are the venues for readers’ encounters
with the most diverse literary options, and places
where other artistic expressions will join in this
fiesta of sensitivity and knowledge.
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Fidel attends launch
of
Operación Condor,
Pacto
Criminal
February 16, 2006
THE public led by
President Fidel Castro, who attended the February 15
launch of the book Operación Condor, Pacto
Criminal (Operation Condor, Criminal Pact), by
Argentine Stella Calloni, shared with the author the
need to defend dignity and justice in face of the
threat of perpetual terror and war – the preference
of current U.S. president – throughout the world.
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From today, books invade the west
February 13, 2006
FROM this Monday to Sunday, February
19, Cuba’s 15th International Book Fair moves from
its headquarters to the cities of western Cuba,
Pinar del Río, Consolación del Sur, Sandino, Nueva
Gerona, San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, San José
de las Lajas, Matanzas, Cárdenas and Colón.
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News of the Fair and guests’ opinions
February 10, 2006
IT has now been confirmed
that Argentina will be the guest country of honor at
the 2007 International Book Fair, as all "seasoned
Cuban readers" have discovered in this year’s
program.
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ALBA
Cultural Fund created in Havana
February
6, 2006
THREE significant events marked the beginning of
Cuba’s 15th International Book Fair: the
inauguration by Cuban and Venezuelan Presidents
Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, the creation of the
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)
Cultural Fund and the launching of
Niños
del infortunio
(Children of Misfortune), by Venezuelan Tarek
William Saab.
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How Zaida saw them
February
6, 2006
EVERY exhibition by Zaida del Río
offers the possibility of making a voyage into
fantasy. Restless, never repetitive, every once in a
while the artist moves into new narrative dimensions.
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A historic journey with Che
February
1, 2006
FROM
June 12 to September 9, Comandante Ernesto
Che Guevara made a tour of Asia, Europe and Africa,
basically aimed at stating the objectives of the
Cuban Revolution that had triumphed in January of
that year.
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Casa 2006
prizes are a reality
January 30, 2006
THE Casa Prize, whose continental and Caribbean
significance was supported this year with the entry
of 546 works in poetry, short story, essay and
Brazilian and Caribbean literature, was presented in
the Che Guevara Hall to writers from Peru, Guyana
and Brazil.
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15th HAVANA BOOK
FAIR 2006
Bolivarian Venezuela, guest of honor
January 27, 2006
VENEZUELA, the country
featured as the guest of honor at the 15th Havana
Book Fair to take place in the San Carlos de la
Cabaña fortress, is presenting Cuban readers with
1,200 titles (plus one million copies) by classic
and contemporary authors.
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NANCY MOREJON,
NATIONAL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNER
I’m a strange poet...
January 27, 2006
STRANGELY, there are no words to
describe Nancy Morejón, someone who is a
proprietress of words. Poet, essayist, journalist,
translator, cultural advocate, member of the Cuban
Language Academy, National Literature Prize winner...
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DAVID VIÑAS INAUGURATES 47TH CASA
PRIZE
Need to
speak of the great dignity of the people
January 17, 2006
DAVID Viñas is one of the
essential names of all times in Latin America
literature. He has returned to Casa de las Américas
as a special guest and to inaugurate the labors of
the six jury members for the most recognized
literary prize in the region.
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2006
NATIONAL THEATER PRIZE
January 9, 2006
THE 2006 National
Theater Prize has been conferred on two important
individuals of the Cuban stage: Mario Balmaceda and
Sergio Corrieri, for their high artistic values and
significant professional work.
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