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SoyCubano Portal is offering the possibility of knowing about
the most remarkable cultural events to be celebrated in our country
during 2003. For more information about any of them, click on
the appropiate electronic address written below each event.
JANUARY
XLIV CASA DE
LAS AMERICAS
LITERARY PRIZE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR WORLD EQUILIBRIUM
VII INTERNATIONAL
PRIZE OF POETRY IN HAVANA SOUTH CULTURAL PROJECT
FEBRUARY
''LIFE
CYCLES, AGES AND WOMEN GENERATIONS IN CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN
CULTURE'' INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
MARCH
XI NATIONAL WORKSHOP
OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC CRITIC
''PEPE SANCHEZ''
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TROVA
APRIL
VII ORTIZ-LACHATAÑERÉ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP OF
AFRICANESS
VI INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CULTURAL PATRIMONY: CONTEXT AND PRESERVATION
XIV ''PERCUBA 2003'' INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PERCUSSION
''DAYS OF DANCE'' FESTIVAL
X INTERNATIONAL
MEETING OF ACADEMIES FOR BALLET EDUCATION
I INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
OF POOR CINEMA
MAY
ROMERIAS OF MAY
FESTIVAL
VI CUBADISCO
2003 INTERNATIONAL FAIR
"DE DONDE
CRECE LA PALMA'' NATIONAL
SALON OF PLASTIC FOR CHILDREN
9th. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
COLLOQUIUM
THE SPAIN PRINT
JUNE
III CULTURE AND
DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
XVI GOLD BOLEROS
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
V INTERNATIONAL
SALON AND WORKSHOP OF DIGITAL ART
XXXVI CUCALAMBEAN
JOURNEY AND XI IBEROAMERICAN FESTIVAL OF DECIMA
JULY
XXIII CARIBBEAN
FESTIVAL, FIRE PARTY
''DISPLACES ON
THE CARIBBEAN'' INTERNATIONAL MEETING
CUBAROCK 2003
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
AUGUST
HAVANA HIP HOP CUBAN RAP FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER
''BENNY MORÉ''
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF POPULAR MUSIC
FESTIVAL OF THEATRE IN HAVANA
OCTOBER
HAVANA
FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
EL ALMACEN DE
LA IMAGEN
CUBANESS PARTY
PARTY OF IBEROAMERICAN
CULTURE
NOVEMBER
XVII NATIONAL
MEETING OF CHARANGAS ORCHESTRAS
NATIONAL FAIR OF
POPULAR ART
''WEMILERE'' FESTIVAL
OF AFRICAN ROOTS
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CHORUS
JO JAZZ FESTIVAL
VIII BIENNIAL
OF HAVANA
DECEMBER
XXV HAVANA FILM
FESTIVAL
FIART 2003 INTERNATIONAL
FAIR OF CRAFTS
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
CUBADANZA
CUBALLET
FOLKCUBA
JANUARY
XLIV CASA DE LAS AMERICAS LITERARY PRIZE
20 to 30 January
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Casa de las Américas
Venue: Casa de las Américas, Havana City
Organizing Committee: Dr. Jorge Fornet Gil
Phone: (537) 552706 al 09
Fax: (537) 334554
Email:cil@casa.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
This is one of the most prestigious prizes of the continent. This
year, competition is based on novel, theater, essay of social-historical
theme and testimonial literature genres. Brazilian authors will
have also the opportunity of participation with poetry, short
story and novel books in Portuguesse and published between 2001
and 2002.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR WORLD EQUILIBRIUM
27 to 29 January
Sponsor: Office of Marti Program
Venue: Palace of Conventions of Havana
Organizing Committee: Dr. Armando Hart Dávalos
Phones (537) 303188 552298 304493
Telefax: (537) 334672
Email: hpardo@ceniai.inf.cu / jmarti@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour operator: Cubatur
With motive of 150 anniversary of José Martí's
birth, relevant figure of the American Literature and History,
this event is celebrated having as main purpose the reflection
about Martí's thoughts regarding to contemporarity. This
ocassion will join studious and interesed people in this Cuban
author's life and work.
VII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF POETRY IN HAVANA. SOUTH CULTURAL
PROJECT
29 to 4 February
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Union of Writers and artists of Cuba(UNEAC)
Venue: Havana City
Organizing Committee: Sr. Alex Pausides
Phone (537) 553113
Email: promocion@uneac.co.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
Artists, poets, writers and musicians involved in this promotional
project of culture met in Havana. It includes a theoretical meeting,
reading of poems and other activities. In this ocassion it is
devoted to the Cuban poet José María Heredia.
INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR OF HAVANA
31 to 9 February
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Cuban Institute of Book
Venue: Fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana City
and various cities of the country.
Organizing Committee: Sr. Iroel Sánchez
Phones (537) 833 6034 832 8829
Fax: (537) 333441
Email: ccfilh@icl.cult.cu
Tour operator: Viajes Cubanacán
One of the most significant meetings among editorial productions,
literary agencies, libraries, distributors and professionals of
book in America. Academicians, writers, exposers and other personalities
are participating in an ample programming including: books presentations,
exhibitions, conferences and round tables in an attractive cultural
and tourist center in Havana, San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress,
to extend its domains afterwards over various cities of the world.
In this ocassion, it is devoted to Andean countries and Cuban
writer Pablo Armando Fernández
FEBRUARY
'''LIFE CYCLES, AGES AND WOMEN GENERATIONS IN LATIN AMERICAN
AND CARIBBEAN CULTURE'' INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
17 to 21 February
Sponsor: Casa de las Américas
Venue: Casa de las Américas, Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Dra. Luisa Campuzano
Phone (537) 404484
FAX: (537) 338729
Email: cil@casa.cult.cu
Reflections regarding to women and time. The artistic and literary
representation of their life cycles. Conferences, chats, poems
reading plus exhibitions among its main activities.
MARCH
XI NATIONAL WORKSHOP OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC CRITIC
13 to 18 March
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Centro Provincial de Cine
Venue: Camagüey
Organizing Committee: Sr. Armando Pérez Padrón
Phone: (5332) 295159 y 297917
Email: cmgcpcine@pprincipe.cult.cu
Critic, researchers, cinematographic specialists are gathering
together to discuss aspects related to their professional career
at the contemporary world and its impact over the critics in public
formation process.
"PEPE SANCHEZ" INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TROVA
15 to 19 March
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Santiago de
Cuba y Centro Nacional de la Música Popular
Venue: Casa de la Trova, Santiago de Cuba
Organizing Committee:Sr. Eliades Ochoa Bustamante
Phone: (53226) 641998 y 641867
Fax: (53226) 687249
Email:cpmusica@cultstgo.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
Meeting with trova and traditional music joining all those musicians
approaching the genre. It is featuring performances at different
venues, conferences, workshops and serenades. An homage to Pepe
Sánchez, remarkable artist from Trova genre.
APRIL
VII ''ORTIZ-LACHATAÑERÉ'' INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
OF AFRICANESS
1 to 5 April
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Santiago de
Cuba y Cátedra de Estudios Afrocaribeños
Venue: Teatro Heredia, Santiago de Cuba
Organizing Committee: Sra. Marta Emilia Cordié Jackson
Phone (53 226) 642487
Fax. (53 226) 642487
Email: mcordies@csh.uo.edu.cu
Tour operator: Havanatur
Devoted to studies that approach African themes, from different
disciplines. The Bantú culture in Africa and the New World
and The Africaness in the current cultural studies, among the
main themes. It includes artistic activities and specialized visits.
VI INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CULTURAL PATRIMONY: CONTEXT AND
PRESERVATION
13 to 18 April
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, Comité
Cubano de ICOMOS
Venue: Convento de Santa Clara, Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sra. Ana Esther Cepero Acán
Phone: (537) 8 613775
Fax: (537) 8335696
Email. crcrm@cencrem.cult.cu
Architects, restorers, museologists and specialists involved
in the study and preservation of cultural patrimony will discuss
about different themes: tourism and cultural patrimony, archeology
and preservation, environment and cultural patrimony, among others.
XIV "PERCUBA 2003" INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PERCUSSION
15 to 19 April
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Sociedad de Percusionistas de Cuba (PERCUBA)
Venue: Teatro "Amadeo Roldán", Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Lino Arturo Neira Betancourt
Phone: (537) 2038808
Email: lneira@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour operator: Havanatur
The most representative from the contemporary tendencies of this
genre, in theoretical and practical sessions. Percussion contests,
colloquiums, instruments and accesories exhibitions, plus concerts
and homages to prestigious musicians.
'' LOS DÍAS DE LA DANZA " FESTIVAL
18 to 27 April
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Consejo Nacional de las Artes Escénicas
Venue : Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Julián González Toledo
Phone: (537) 8 30 4126
Fax: (537) 553823
Email: cnae@min.cult.cu
Meeting to promote the major Cuban companies of all genres and
styles together with new international proposals in an exchange
process among artists and public.
X INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF ACADEMIES FOR BALLET EDUCATION
13 to 26 April
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Centro Nacional de Escuelas de Arte
Organizing Committee: Sra. Martha Ulloa Lamela
Phone: (537) 2023330 y 2040446
Fax: (537) 2040047
Email: ena@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
Workshops, conferences, masterful classes and performances from
the attendees academies in a program that is also including concerts
and artistic galas. Interchange opportunity of experiences about
the methodology of ballet education.
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF POOR CINEMA
23 to 27 April
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos
Venue: Gibara, Holguín
Organizing Committee: Sr. Humberto Solás Borrego
Phone: (537) 55 3650 al 55 ext. 210
Fax: (537) 551188
Email: festivalcinapobre@icaic.inf.cu / lowbugetfilm_festival@yahoo.com
WWW. cubacina/cinepobre
Tour operator: Havanatur and Cubanacán
It promotes low-production-cost films holding a real cultural
spirit. Among its main themes: ethics and aesthetic of a movie
independent from transnational of audio-visual means, new technological
contributions and access possibilities to youngsters and communities
productions.
MAY
ROMERIAS OF MAY FESTIVAL
2 to 8 May
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Asociación Hermanos Saíz
Venue: Holguín
Organizing Committee: Sr. Alpidio Alonso
Phones ( 537) 8670210 8670181 al 89
Email. ahs@ujc.org.cu
Musical, theater and dance spectacles plus plastic arts exhibitions
in a real young party. Artists, researchers, and public are attending
this meeting in Holguin with their best traditions.
VI CUBADISCO 2003 INTERNATIONAL FAIR
14 to 18 May
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Instituto Cubano de la Música
Venue: PABEXPO, Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Ciro Benemelis Durán
Phone: (537) 30 9972, 32 3504 hasta 06
Fax: (537) 333716
Email: icm@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour operator: Havanatur
Exchange space among record labels, musical editors, entrepeneurs
and agents from the world of music and spectacles. Presentation
of records, concerts and exhibitions, among other activities.
Meeting of the public from Havana with the most relevant Cuban
and foreign musicians.
"DE DONDE CRECE LA PALMA" NATIONAL SALON OF PLASTIC
FOR CHILDREN
16 to 19 May
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Granma, Consejo
Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, Consejo Nacional de Casas
de Cultura and Galería de Arte "Benito Granda Parada"
Venue: Galería de Arte "Benito Granda Parada",
Jiguaní, Granma
Organizing Committee: Sr. Feliciano Escobedo Batista
Phones: (5323) 66017 and 66466
It promotes the appreciation of plastic arts in children and
adolescents, inspired on the literary work of José Martí,
after 150 years of his birth. A specialized jury will analize
works of free thematic to confer different prizes.
9th.ERNEST HEMINGWAY COLLOQUIUM
27 to 30 May
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Ciudad de La
Habana and Museo "Ernest Hemingway"
Venue: Hotel Ambos Mundos, Ciudad de La Habana
Oragnizing Committee: Sr. Manuel Sardiña González
Phones (537) 91-0809
Fax.(537) 55-8090
Email: mushem@cubarte.cult.cu
Life and work of Ernest Hemingway - Novel Prize of Literature
- and its relation with Cuba, as central point of this event,
where writers, researchers and public in general are meeting together.
Among its main themes we can highlight: Northamerican literature
and its influence in contemporary literary, museum of La Vigia
and its relation with other related institutions.
THE PRINT OF SPAIN
May
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Gran Teatro de La Habana, Federación de Sociedades
Españolas, Centro Cultural de España
Venue: Gran Teatro de La Habana, Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sra. Alicia Alonso
Phones: (537) 552948
Fax: (537) 333117
Email: bnc@cubarte.cult.cu
The hispanic presence in Cuban culture at the magnificent scene
of Gran Teatro de La Habana. A meeting of musical groups and soloists,
Cuban and Spanish exponents of theater and dance.
JUNE
III ''CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT" INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
9 to 12 June
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Ministerio de Cultura
Venue: Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Rafael Bernal
Phones. (537) 553691 552300 552299
Fax: (537) 552301 662283
Email: culltydes@cubarte.cult.cu/ csuper@cubarte.cult.cu
Artists, intellectuals, critic, professors, promoters and researchers
will meet together in forums devoted to art manifestations, literature
and other expressions and other expressions such as cultural patrimony,
artistic education and new technologies. Its general schedule
includes conferences, panels, workshops, round tables plus artistic
performances, visits to institutions and socio-cultural projects.
XVI GOLD BOLEROS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
22 to 29 June
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)
Venue: Ciudad de La Habana y Santiago de Cuba
Organizing Committee: Sr. José Loyola
Phones (537) 8320395 553113
Email: promocion@uneac.co.cu
It gathers the most remarkable bolero singers from diverse countries.
It includes a colloquium in which musicologists, researchers and
specialists will discuss about themes related to this musical
genre.
V INTERNATIONAL SALON AND WORKSHOP OF DIGITAL ART
22 to 26 June
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Centro Cultural "Pablo de la Torriente Brau"
Venue: Centro Cultural "Pablo de la Torriente Brau",
Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Víctor Casaus
Phone: (537) 861-6251
Fax: (537) 66-6585
Email: vcasaus@colombus.cu / vcasaus@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour operator: Havanatur
Artists, designers, photographers and other specialists related
with this form of expression are meeting to interexchange experiences
about challenges and techniques of digital art; the digital art:
tradition and originality and other related themes.
XXXVI CUCALAMBEAN JOURNEY AND XI IBEROAMERICAN FESTIVAL OF DECIMA
June 30 to July 6
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Las Tunas,
Casa Iberoamericana de la Décima y Consejo Nacional de
Casas de Cultura.
Venue: El Cornito, Las Tunas
Organizing Committee: Sr. Manuel Hernández Ramos
Phone: (5331) 47770
Fax. (5331) 4 7770
Email: dpclt@tunet.cult.cu
Tour operator: Havanatur
Party of country culture -inspired on Juan Cristóbal Nápoles
Fajardo poet, ''El Cucalambé''- in his farm El Cornito.
Poets, musicians, repentists, artists, researchers, writters are
gathering together in this event that is including diverse contests
and a varied program of spectacles, fairs, traditional games and
country guateques.
JULY
XXIII CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL, PARTY OF FIRE
3 to 9 July
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Santiago de
Cuba y Casa del Caribe
Venue: Santiago de Cuba
Organizing Committe: Sr. Joel James
Phones: (53226) 641998 623569
Email: caribe@cult.stgo.cult.cu
Tour operator: Havanatur
The authentic Caribbean tradition in a huge popular party of
dance and folklore. Magic and religiouos rituals, concerts, workshops,
fairs, colloquiums, exhibitions and spectacles, in a program gathering
historicians, artists, ethnologists and sociologists interested
in Caribbean culture.
"DISPLACES ON THE CARIBBEAN" INTERANATIONAL MEETING
7 to 11 July
Sponsor: Casa de las Américas
Venue: Casa de las Américas, Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sra. Nancy Morejón
Phone: (537) 552706
Fax: (537) 8334554
Email: caribe@casa.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
Visual arts, music, theater, literature, history and religion
will be the spaces to be explored in this meeting which is reflecting
about the permanent movility from and to Caribbean plus its incidence
in the cultural representations of the region.
CUBAROCK 2003 INTERNACIONAL FESTIVAL
12 to 15 July
Sponsor: Asociación Hermanos Saíz
Venue: Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Alpidio Alonso
Phones: 8670210 8670181 al 89
Email: ahs@ujc.org.cu
Performances of the main artists approaching the young rock. Many
concerts will be made at diverse venues of Havana, plus theoretical
events about this genre development in the island.
AUGUST
HABANA HIP HOP FESTIVAL OF CUBAN RAP
11 to 17 August
Periodicity: Annual
Sponsor: Asociación Hermanos Saíz
Venue: Ciudad de La Habana, Habana del Este, Alamar
Organizing Committee: Sr. Alpidio Alonso
Phones: 8670210 8670181 al 89
Email: ahs@ujc.org.cu
Promoting space for the vanguard of Hip Hop Cuban movement, where
Rap groups, breakdance dancers, Disckjokers and graphic artists
will perform, representing this genre in the island with the participation
of guests from other countries.
SEPTEMBER
"BENNY MORÉ" INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF POPULAR
MUSIC
10 to 14 September
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Cienfuegos,
Centro Nacional de Música Popular y Dirección Provincial
de Cultura de Ciudad de La Habana
Venue: Ciudad de La Habana y Cienfuegos
Organizing Committee : Sr. Isaac Delgado Ramírez
Phones (537) 8311234 8323503 and 8323506
Fax: (537) 8333716
Email: icm@cubarte.cult.cu
Homage to one of the most outstanding figures from the Cuban
popular music of all times, Benny Moré. Concerts, artistic
performances and danceable spectacles, at his natal village, Lajas
and also in Cienfuegos and La Havana.
FESTIVAL OF THEATER IN HAVANA
18 to 28 September
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Consejo Nacional de las Artes Escénicas.
Venue: Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Julián González Toledo
Phone: (537) 830 4126
Fax: (537) 553823
Email: cnae@min.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
Meeting with the different Cuban theatrical scenes and space
for exchange with remarkable theater artists from all over the
world. Performances, workshops, conferences and other modalities,
it is, without a doubt, one of the most attractive Cuban events.
OCTOBER
HAVANA FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
1 to 9 October
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)
Venue:, Teatro "Amadeo Roldán", Teatro Nacional,
Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Guido López Gavilán
Phones. (537) 553113 8320194
Email. promocion@uneac.co.cu
Festival promoting a wide selection of works by Cuban, Latin
American and European composers from XX century, through the performances
ofg relevant soloists, chamber conjuntos, orchestral and chamber
groups.
EL ALMACEN DE LA IMAGEN
8 tol 13 October
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Asociación Hermanos Saíz
Venue: Camagüey
Organizing Committee: Sr. Alpidio Alonso
Phones (537) 8670210 8670181 to 89
Email. ahs@ujc.org.cu
Event of the audio visual image which is promoting and benefing
the young craetion in modalities of video nad television. It includes
workshops, conferences, colateral samples and meeting with prestigious
filmakers.
CUBANESS PARTY
20 to 25 October
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Granma
Venue: Bayamo, Granma
Organizing Committee: Sr. Ludín Fonseca
Phone: (5323) 424833
Email: pompa@crisol.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
The Cuban culture and art in a party that is contributing to
the remeeting with nation's roots. Among its main themes are the
traditional culture, its contributions to contemporary creation;
historiography and identity process of Cuba in its links with
the Caribbean. Specialized visits, expositions, artistic performances
plus a theoretical-researches sessions are vsome of its main activities..
PARTY OF IBEROAMERICAN CULTURE
24 to 30 October
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Casa de Iberoamérica y Dirección Provincial
de Cultura de Holguín
Venue: Casa de Iberoamérica, Holguín
Organizing Committee: Sr. Alexis Triana Hernández
Phones: (5324) 461673
Fax. (5324)461673
Email: triana@baibrama.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso.
The hispanic presence at Cuban culture. A with a schedule of
concerts, expositions, workshops, and artistic performances in
an attractive popular party that is beautifying its venue, the
so-called city of parks.
NOVEMBER
XVII NATIONAL MEETING OF CHARANGAS ORCHESTRAS
13 to 16 November
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Asociación Nacional de Orquestas Charangas
Venue: Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba
Organizing Committee: Sr. Iván Bychko Houdayer
Phones: (53225) 3907
Fax: (53225) 2163
Tour operator: Paradiso
Meeting inspired on the eternal charanga, Aragón Orchestra
is attempting to preserve this musical format. It also includes
performances of numerous orchestras, theoretical sessions in which
remarkable personalities are participating to dicuss theme related
to Cuban popular music.
NATIONAL FAIR OF POPULAR ART
19 to 23 November
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor: Consejo Nacional de Casas de Cultura y Dirección
Provincial de Cultura de Ciego de Avila
Venue: Ciego de Avila
Organizing Committee: Sr. Fernando Rojas Gutiérrez
Phones: (537) 830 3885 833 7251 y 830 3690
Fax: (537) 830 8066 y 830 3690
Email: frojas@cncc.cult.cu
The Cuban popular culture and its diverse expressions in a varied
schedule highlighting children manualities, crafts contests, painting,
drawing and sculpture, workshop with artisans, fairs and artistic
performances.
"WEMILERE" FESTIVAL OF AFRICAN ROOTS
23 to 29 November
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor : Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Ciudad de
La Habana,
Venue: Guanabacoa, Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing committee: Sra. Ada Rosa Alfonso Rosales
Phone: ( 537) 97 9776
Fax: ( 537) 97 9187
Email: dmcgboa@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
The African component in the Cuban culture in the authentic party
of Guanabacoa, Havana. Colloquiums, round tables, masterful classes,
workshops, contests, artistic performances are included among
its main choices gathering researchers, ethnologists, specialists,
religious and public in general.
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CHORUS
23 to 30 November
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Dirección Provincial de Cultura, Centro Provincial
de la Música de Santiago de Cuba, Centro Nacional de Música
de Concierto
Venue: Sala Dolores, Santiago de Cuba
Orhganizing Committee: Sr. Electo Silva Gainza
Phones: (537) 67 0752 and 64 2867
Fax: (537) 68 7249
Email: cpmusica@cultstgo.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
A week of choral chants in scenes from remarkable theaters. It
alos includes concerts, choral rondas, meetings, workshops, conferences
at the Caribbean city of santiago de Cuba.
JO JAZZ
November 27 to December 1st.
Sponsor: Centro Nacional de Música Popular
Venue: Teatro "Amadeo Roldán", Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Alexis Vázquez Aguilera
Phones:(537) 2047667
Fax. (537) 2040184
Email: mp@cubarte.cult.cu
It promotes the young talents that are approaching Jazz iin Cuba
and advertises on the contributions made for the Cuban musicians
in this genre. Having various prizes, the most relevant is the
recording of a disc having a Chucho Valdés' production.
VIII BIENNIAL OF HAVANA
November 2003 to January 2004
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, Centro
de Arte Contemporáneo "Wifredo Lam", Ministerio
de Cultura
Venue: Ciudad de La Habana ,Centro de Arte Contemporáneo
"Wifredo Lam"
Organizing Committee: Sr. Rafael Acosta de Arriba
Phone: (537) 204 2744
Fax: (537) 204 2744
Email: cnap@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
One of the most significative meetings at the international panorama
of art. The last tendencies and expressions of Plastic Arts, in
traditional spaces of exhibitions and alternative proposals. There's
also presence of other disciplines such as dance, theater, cinema
plus special projects at neighborhood of Havana.
DECEMBER
XXV HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL
3 to 13 December
Periodicity: annual
Sponsor : Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos,
Ministerio de Cultura y Casa del Festival.
Venue: Casa del Festival, Ciudad de La Habana y otras ciudades
del país
Organizer Committee: Sr. Alfredo Guevara
Phone: (537) 552854 al 64
Fax: (537) 333078
Email: presidenciafestival@icaic.inf.cu
Tour operator: Havanatur and Viajes Cubanacán
One of the most prestigious cinematographic festivals that is
offering a wide panorama of the audio-visual production of the
continent and samples from the main cinematographic work in the
world. It includes a scripts and posters contest, seminars about
cinema, new technologies and audio-visual world of the Latin American
childhood. It gathers remarkable personalities such as directors,
script-writers, critic, artists, specialists in a wide schedule
of concerts, expositions, books presentations and other activities.
FIART 2003 INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF CRAFTS
14 to 20 December
Periodicity: biennial
Sponsor: Fondo cubano de Bienes Culturales
Venue: PABEXPO, Ciudad de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. José González Fernández
Larrea
Phones: (537) 204 6428 and 203 6523
Fax: (537) 204 0391
Email: joseglez@fcbc.Cult.cu
Tour operator: Paradiso
The most significative at the Cuban craft world, expositions,
colloquiums, expositions, workshops. The tradition at our craft
labor, the diversity of materials used as support for the creator
and the multiplicity of forms where the useful and the functional
come as an authenticity seal at in Cuban craft.
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
CUBADANZA
6 to 17 January
1 to 12 July
Periodicity: semestral
Sponsor: Consejo Nacional de las Artes Escénicas
Venue: Compañía de Danza Contemporánea, Ciudad
de La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Miguel Iglesias
Phones ( 537 ) 87966410
Fax: ( 537) 8792728
Email: cnae@min.cult.cu
It shows the technical work in the school of modern dance in
Cuba, in which universal dance nad Cuban folklor are entwining,
offering a distinctive seal to the dancer.
CUBALLET
January 6 to Febraury 2
July 7 to august 3
Periodicity: Semestral
Sponsor: Centro de Promoción de la Danza
Venue: Centro de Promoción de la Danza
Organizing Committee: Sra. Laura Alonso
Phone and fax ( 537) 260 8610
Email: prodanza@cubarte.cult.cu
Ballet education according to the methodoloy of Cuban school.
ballet classes, puntas, adagio, folkloric and modern dances, popular
dances, dance's history, performance and make up, among the main
proposals attractive for young dancers from all over the world.
FOLKCUBA
13 to 26 January
7 to 19 July
Periodicity: semestral
Sponsor: Consejo Nacional de las Artes Escénicas
Venue: Sede del Conjunto Folklórico Nacional, Ciudad de
La Habana
Organizing Committee: Sr. Juan García
Phone ( 537) 834560
Fax: ( 537 8303060
Email: cnae@min.cult.cu
Theoric-practical workshop devoted to know different musical-dance
manifestations from Cuban culture. To choreographers, dancers,
professors and dance amateurs, who will discover the secrets of
Cuban folkloric dance and the magic tone of our percussion instruments.
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