“Havana Queens”,  Rosario Garcia’s Cuban Passion

“Havana Queens”, Rosario Garcia’s Cuban Passion

Havana Queens? Second floor, to your right, indicates the receptionist at the Combinado Jesus Mendez, located in the heart of the densely populated municipality of Marianao, in Cuba. It was barely nine o’clock on a hot Havana morning, and before arriving at the...
A Facelift For Old Havana On Its 500th Anniversary

A Facelift For Old Havana On Its 500th Anniversary

Havana was a Spanish colony for four centuries, English for one year, occupied by US troops, pounded by hurricanes and even a tornado, and the epicenter of several of the most important political moments of the last century. San Cristóbal de la Habana celebrates its...
Bakosó: This is What Happens When Afrobeats hits Cuba

Bakosó: This is What Happens When Afrobeats hits Cuba

The film director Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi has just presented the film Bakosó, that explores how the AfroBeats music, by way of African medical students, emerged as a new culture in Cuba. Jacobs-Fantauzzi has been producing documentaries for years  that shine light...
Cooking up some Cuban Jazz?

Cooking up some Cuban Jazz?

Music for musicians, melody of the gods and the genre of improvisation are often used to describe jazz at a universal level. But when this music comes from the heart and mind of a Cuban, most of his followers will dare to assure that something different is happening...
Five Art Galleries you Should Visit in Havana

Five Art Galleries you Should Visit in Havana

With a diversity of curatorial profiles, at the initiative of the artists themselves or as prestigious institutions in the Cuban art promoting circuits, the art galleries in Havana live an expansion moment. They are a business strategy and, also, specific ways of...