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JANUARY
CASA DE LAS AMERICAS LITERARY AWARD
January 21st to 31st
This literary award is one of the most prestigious in the
continent. This year the participants will compete in the
genres of poetry, essays and stories, making emphasis on
Brazilian and Caribbean literature.
Organizer: Casa de las Américas
Venue: Casa de las Américas, Havana
Organizing Committee: Doctor Jorge Fornet Gil
Website:
www.casadelasamericas.org
Tour
operator: Paradiso
FEBRUARY
17th INTERNATIONAL HAVANA´S BOOK FAIR
February 13th to 24th
The 17th International Havana’s Book Fair will be
held in our country having Galicia’s culture as a guest of
honour. Under the slogan: “Reading is Growing”, this edition
will be dedicated to National Literature Award Winners
Graziella Pogolotti and Antón Arufat. Considered as one of
the main cultural events in the country, this book fair has
the participation of all the institutions linked to the
printing world, as well as authors, editors, distributors,
book sellers, literary agents, multimedia producers,
journalists and other professionals in Cuba and abroad.
There is a wide program of activities which include
presentations of books, exhibits, lectures, round tables and
seminars. This event will take place in a very nice,
cultural and tourist spot in Havana: the Fortress of San
Carlos de la Cabaña, a charming place located across
Havana’s bay and very close to Old Havana, World Heritage.
Host: Cuban Book Institute
Venue: San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, Havana City, and
other 40 cities in Cuba.
Organizing committee: Mr. Iroel Sánchez Espinosa
Website:
www.cubaliteraria.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
24th INTERNATIONAL ‘JAZZ PLAZA’ FESTIVAL
February 14th to the 17th
A meeting place for important personalities and new talents
of Jazz music worldwide. With the presence of Maestro Chucho
Valdés, Grammy Award Winner in different occasions, who is
soul and heart of this event and the greatest symbol of
Cuban piano playing Jazz. He and Irakere band paved the way
for Cuban musicians in the conquering of the Grammy Award.
To this recognition, taken place in 1978; other important
prizes have followed Maestro Chucho Valdés. An important
tradition and international impact have been achieved in
Latin Jazz and Cuban Jazz where relevant Jazz personalities
and young players, cultivating this musical genre, show
their talent. Jazz bands, ensembles and soloists will play
during the Festival and master classes, colloquiums and
debates on this genre will also take place.
Host: Cuban Institute of Music and National Centre for
Concert Music
Venues: Amadeo Roldán Theater, Karl Marx Theatre and Culture
Houses in Plaza.
Organizing Comité: Maestro Chucho Valdés
E-mail:
Alexis@icm.cu
Website:
www.festivaljazzplaza.icm.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM “VIOLENCE AND COUNTER-VIOLENCE IN
THE CULTURE OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN WOMEN”
February 18th to 22nd
This edition of the Colloquium has been dedicated to the
researches about the violence of gender in culture, society
and collective construction of the counter-violence. The
program of this event calls for this Colloquium as a
continuation of formers editions. This time the Event will
discuss topics such as the conceptualization of gender
violence, the gender violence in the Latin American and
Caribbean history, and the collective construction of
counter violence: domestic tricks, legal appeals and their
representations. Master conferences and forums on the topics
of the colloquium, as well as readings, concerts and
exhibits by Cuban writers and artists will be held.
Organizer: Casa de las Américas
Venue: Casa de las Américas
Organizing Committee: Mrs. Luisa Campuzano
E-mail:
pem@casa.cult.cu
Web:
www.casadelasamericas.org
Tour
operator: Paradiso
MARCH
“SANTIAGO ALVAREZ IN MEMORIAM” INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
March 7th
to 13th
The beautiful City of Santiago de Cuba will host this event.
The documentary film as an accusing weapon of our peoples,
documentary vs. report, new technologies and documentaries,
the cartoons and the documentary cinema, among others, are
the topics which will get together the amateur documentary
film makers.
Organizer: Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and
Industry (ICAIC)
Venues: “Cuba” and “Rialto” Cinemas, Santiago de Cuba.
Organizing Committee: Mrs. Lázara Herrera
E-mail:
salvarez@icaic.cu
,
festivalsantiagoalvarez@icaic.cu
Website:
www.cubacine.cu/festival/santiago.html
Tour
operator: Paradiso
12th FESTIVAL OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC “SPRING IN
HAVANA”
March 10th to 16th
This event summons composers, artists of the sound and
musicians to participate in this 12th edition of
the International Festival of Electroacoustic Music “Spring
in Havana”. The participants will enjoy concerts and
conferences by prestigious professionals.
Organizer: National Centre of Concert Music and Cuban
Institute of Music
Venue: Havana Historical Centre, National Museum of Fine
Arts and Havana’s Higher Institute for the Arts (ISA)
Organizing Committee: Mr. Emmanuel Blanco Hernández
E-mail:
inme@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
“PEPE
SANCHEZ” INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TROVA SINGING
March
15th to 19th
This
Festival promotes the meeting of different generations of
the most authentic expressions of trove singing. The event
also promotes old and new Cuban troubadours with traditional
styles of interpretation. The main objective of this
Festival is to favor a social and cultural environment where
Cuba’s cultural idiosyncrasy and identity could be
reaffirmed through trove expressions. Attending this
Festival will allow participants to take part in different
artistic performances in the venues, conferences and
workshops; and also to know first hand about the experiences
and feelings that are inside Santiago’s trove movement. Pepe
Sánchez (1856 – 1918) was the precursor and Maestro of
Santiago’s troubadours and at the same time, a mulatto that
loved to sing and who, under the influence of different
trends in the song movement, could achieve new musical
accords.
Organizer: Cuban Institute of Music
Venues: House of the Trove and “Dolores” Hall, Santiago de
Cuba.
Organizing Committee: Mr. Eliades Ochoa
This
event will be held in the city of Santiago de Cuba– the
cradle of Son.
Tour
operator: Paradiso
INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF BALLET ACADEMIES AND INTERNATIONAL
COMPETITION FOR BALLET STUDENTS
March 15th to 29th
A meeting to shop align=justify t and prospects of ballet in
Cuba, and also to exchange experiences on the Cuban
Methodology for the teaching of ballet through workshops,
conferences and master classes. Precursors of these meetings
are Fernando Alonso – who together with Alicia Alonso are
the founders of the Cuban School of Ballet in the 1950’s and
present Honorary Chairman of the Meetings and President of
the Jury - and Maitre Ramona de Saá, a renown Cuban ballet
teacher. Among the activities conceived for this meeting,
there will be workshops on historical and ballroom dances,
folkloric dances; make-up; master classes, lectures;
practical classes of the specialty (ballet, classical duet,
points, repertoire and physical training); artistic
performances by participating academies. The Cuban School of
Ballet invites young dancers to participate in the 10th
International Contest for Ballet Students to be held during
this event.
Organizer: National Centre of Artistic Teaching
Venue: The National Ballet School and Grand Theatre of
Havana
Organizing Committee: Mrs. Ramona de Saá Bello
E-mail:
cneart@cubarte.cult.cu
Web:
www.cubarte.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF DANCE IN URBAN LANDSCAPES “OLD
HAVANA, A CITY IN MOTION”
March 26th to 30th
Old Havana will be transformed in a huge street stage.
Performances, acrobats and music will invade once more its
squares. “Old Havana, a City in Motion” is an event included
in the international circuit of Dancing Cities.
There will be conferences, debates, homage, exhibitions and
concerts. The public will be able to interact with the
participants in the bohemian and ancient atmosphere of
public areas in Old Havana.
Organizer: National Council of Performing Arts
Venue: Old Havana, Havana City
Organizing Committee: Isabel Busto Romolereaux
Phone number: (537) 860- 4341
E-mail:
teadan@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour operator: San Cristóbal de La Habana
BIENNIAL OF CARIBBEAN CONTEMPORARY DANCE
March 27th to April 3rd
The first Biennial of Caribbean Contemporary Dance will
undoubtedly be a Meeting that will allow strengthening
cultural bonds among Caribbean nations. With the objective
of creating a space for exchange and discussion, art
exhibits, theoretical events and meetings will be held.
Organized by the National Council of Performing Arts of Cuba
and the Brownstone Foundation, this event will establish new
links between the richness and multiplicity of cultures in
the Caribbean.
Organizer: National Council of Performing Arts
Venue: “Mella” Theater, “Nacional” Theater and “Grand
Theater of Havana”
Organizing Committee: Mr. Noel Bonilla Chongo
E-mail:
noelbonilla@cubaescena.cu
Website:
www.cubaescena.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
APRIL
“OLGA ALONSO” THEATER FESTIVAL AND 2nd
INTERNATIONAL AITA –IATA CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL
April 9th to 13th
In the municipality of Fomento, in the beautiful province of
Sancti Spiritus, this Festival for amateur theatre artists
is been held for more than a decade. It has been winning
prestige as a unique space for confrontation of the best
theatre plays in Cuba. A special importance has taken the
presence of mountain area inhabitants of our country. At the
same time, the International and Caribbean AITA - IATA
Festival will be held.
Organizer: National Council of Culture Houses
Venue: Fomento, Sancti Spiritus
Organizing Committee: Mr. Guillermo Artiles
E-mail:gartiles@cncc.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
CASA DE LAS AMERICAS MUSICOLOGY AWARD AND INTERNATIONAL
COLLOQUIUM OF MUSICOLOGY
April 14th to 18th
Casa de las Américas (House of the Americas) summons the 11th
edition of the Musicology Award. Latin American and
Caribbean authors can participate with books which
contribute with an all-out understanding of the Latin
American and Caribbean culture from the different concepts
and procedures of the present Social Sciences. On occasion
of this 11th edition it is also summoned the 5th
International Colloquium of Music. Participation is open to
musicologists, professors and other specialists interested
in deepening the scientific knowledge, the preservation and
development of musical culture in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Organizer: Casa de las Américas
Venue: Casa de las Américas
Organizing Committee: Mrs. María E. Vinueza
E-mail:
musica@casa.cult.cu
Web:
www.casadelasamericas.org
Tour
operator: Paradiso
INTERNATIONAL NON-BUDGET FILM FESTIVAL
April
14th to 20th
The defense of a cinema made with modest resources but with
a high aesthetic and cultural spirit strives for the non
alienation of movie fans at offering products that are
self-excluded from manipulating trade concepts. At the same
time, it favors the implementation of a liberated and
alternative cinema in handing in the authors modest economic
and technological resources that enable these works to be
fulfilled. Seminars, exhibitions and conferences from
aesthetic, artistic and technological prospects will be
held.
Organizer: Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and
Industry (ICAIC)
Venue:
Gibara, Holguín
Organizing Committee: Sr. Humberto Solás
E-mail:
festivalcinepobre@icaic.cu
Website:
www.cubacine.cu;
www.festivalcinepobre.org
Tour
operator: Paradiso
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP OF PUPPET THEATER
April 21st to 29th
Moved for centuries by the beat of the people’s hearts,
later enriched with theoretical treasures, the long march of
puppets deserves a stop for festivity and reflection in the
beginning of the third millennium. Cuba’s city of bridges
opens its doors so that a puppet can welcome us with the
humbleness of those wishing to meet the reflexive and
entertaining spirit that this art expression offers to all
puppet-loving people.
Organizer: Provincial Council of Performing Arts of Matanzas
City
Venue:
Theaters in Matanzas
Organizing Committee: Mrs. Mercedes Fernandez Pardo
Tour
operator: Paradiso
8th INTERNATIONAL CHOIR FESTIVAL “CORHABANA 2008”
April 23rd to 27th
A meeting of choral groups from different parts of the world
for singing and sharing musical and cultural experiences
with several of the main Cuban choirs.
This event allows the exchange among choirs with national
and international prestige. This festival of choral singing,
held every two years, offers the participating choirs the
possibility of performing in the main concert halls in
Havana such as the Roldan and García Caturla Halls at the
Amadeo Roldan Theatre, the San Francisco de Asís concert
hall, the former Paula Church, and Lecuona Concert Hall at
the Grand Theatre of Havana. Performances can also be
attended at some of the most prestigious Havana’s musical
academies. During the festival, workshops on performance and
staging of the Cuban and international choral repertoire
will be held. Choral conductors interested on the workshops
can participate.
Organizer: Cuban Institute of Music
Venue: Amadeo Roldan Theatre, San Francisco de Asís concert
hall, Paula Church, San Felipe Neri Church and Grand Theatre
of Havana.
Organizing committee: Mrs. Digna Guerra
E-mail:
coronac@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
MAY
11th FESTIVAL “PILGRIMAGES OF MAY” AND FESTIVAL
OF YOUNG ARTISTS
May 2nd to 8th
Young intellectuals and creators get together for the
defense of humanity, against war and terrorism. A meeting of
generations of intellectual artists and cultural promoters.
Annual celebration in Holguín, north-eastern Cuba. Turned
into an International Festival of Young Artists, this event
turns the “City of Parks” into the capital of Young Art. The
need of artistic creation as a source of spiritual
enrichment, calls the best researchers, dancers, writers,
plastic artists, playwrights, musicians and cultural
promoters to celebrate this 11th Edition from the
spaces for big performances and concerts up to the most
important moments of social and cultural reflection.
Venue: Holguín
Organizer: “Hermanos Saíz” Association
Organizing Committee: Mr. Alexis Triana Hernández
E-mail:
cibr@baibrama.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
HAVANA’S INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL
May 6th
to 11th
This international guitar contest will have the
participation of important personalities of the
international guitar world as members of the Jury.
Historically, this event has been presided over by Maestro
Leo Brower who once again will host the Festival.
As usual, recitals and concerts by orchestras, conferences,
master classes, exhibitions and other activities will be
included in the program of this event which is always
related to that universal musical instrument.
Organizer: Cuban Institute of Music
Venues:
Amadeo Roldan Theater
Organizing Committee: Sr.
Alfredo Muñoz Fernández
E-mail:
cnmc13@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
LATIN-AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN THEATER SEASON “MAYO TEATRAL”
May 9th to 18th
Casa de las Américas (House of the Americas) summons the 7th
Edition of Latin-American and Caribbean Theatre Season “Mayo
Teatral”, a season of confrontation between Latin-American
and Caribbean theatres with presentations of important
artists of this artistic expression. At the same time,
workshops and lectures will be held.
Organizer: Casa de las Américas
Venue: Casa de las Américas
E-mail:
plastica@casa.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
CUBADISCO 2008 INTERNATIONAL FAIR
May 17th
to 25th
CUBADISCO 2008 comes once again with the slogan: MUSIC,
IMAGE AND SOUND, on this occasion dedicated to Africa. From
its very foundation, through colloquiums and symposiums, the
CUBADISCO Fairs have created spaces for reflection and
debates for theoreticians, creators and music executives
where they can discuss different topics regarding the
musical industry in order to promote exchanges, cooperation
and knowledge, and therefore, to contribute to the widest
and most efficient development of the Cuban discographic
industry.
Organizer: Cuban Institute of Music
Venue:
Pabellón Cuba, Havana.
Organizing Committee: Sr. Ciro Benemelis
E mail: E-mail:
cubadisco@icm.cu
Website:
www.cubadisco.soycubano.com
Tour
operator: Paradiso
“WEMILERE” FESTIVAL OF AFRICAN ROOTS
May 25th to 31st
In the Village of Asunción de Guanabacoa – a place that
holds in its narrows streets a lot of history and centennial
folkloric traditions – very near downtown Havana, “Wemilere”,
a Festival of African roots is held. This Festival offers a
wide range of activities, from academic sessions including a
colloquium and teaching cultural meetings up to tours around
places of historic interest as well as a varied artistic
program. This edition of the Festival is dedicated to ECOGUA
(The Economic Community of Eastern African States).
Attending “Wemilere represents finding centennial folkloric
traditions inherited from African-Spanish cultural fusion
and it is also walking through a place where roots tell
tales.
Organizer: Provincial Management Office of Culture and
Guanabacoa´s Municipal Management Office of Culture
Venue: Guanabacoa, Havana
E-mail:
dmcgbcoa@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM “CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE
CARIBBEAN
May 26th to 31st
Casa de las Américas, through its Centre for Caribbean
studies has the pleasure to invite you to participate in
this Colloquium “Cultural diversity in the Caribbean”. In
this Edition the event will be about the immaterial
patrimony, religions, oral speech, pop art and cultural
routes. This event should favour an interchange of
reflections about identity and cultural diversity in the
Caribbean.
Organizer: Casa de las Américas
Venue: Casa de las Américas, Havana
Organizing Committee: PhD. Yolanda Woods Pujols
E-mail:
caribe@casa.cult.cu
Web:
www.casdelasamericas.or
Tour
operator: Paradiso
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE AUDIOVISUAL FOR CHILDHOOD AND
ADOLESCENCE
May 28th to June 1st
A meeting for exchanging ideas on genres like cartoon
animation, fiction movies and documentary films. Cartoons
created with digital technology and animation will also be
made.
Organizer: Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and
Industry (ICAIC)
Venue: Havana cinemas and cinemas in other provinces of our
country
Organizing Committee: Mss. Esther Hirtzel Galarza
E-mail:
festival@animados.icaic.cu
Web:
www.animados.icaic.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
JUNE
20th FESTIVAL “LA HUELLA DE ESPAÑA” (THE SPANISH
IMPRINT)
June 1st to 8th
This Festival suggests an approach to the roots that made up
our nationality by means of artistic expressions such as
dance, music, plastic arts, literature and cinema. Cuban and
Spanish participants will have the opportunity to show their
art, and at the same time, to come closer to a people that
recognizes itself in its traditions. There will be different
artistic expressions linked to the Spanish cultural heritage
and its symbiosis with other autochthonous elements. The
Festival will show a blending of rhythms, shades, ideas and
styles. On 2008 this event will be of great importance due
to the 20th Anniversary of “La Huella de España”
Festival; the 60th Anniversary of the foundation
of the National Ballet of Cuba; and the 21st
Edition of the International Ballet Festival of Havana.
Organizer: Havana’s Grand Theatre and the National Ballet of
Cuba
Venue: Havana’s Grand Theatre
Organizing Committee: Mss.
Miriam Vila
E-mail:
bnc@cubarte.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
“VARADERO 2008” INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CUBAN MUSIC
June 11th to 15th
With the participation of important artists, first- category
shows will be presented for the enjoyment of national and
foreign audience.
Organizer: Cuban Institute of Music
Venue: Varadero, Matanzas
Organizing Committee: Mr. Juan Formell
E-mail:
alexisv@paradis.artex.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
HANDICRAFT FAIR “ARTE EN LA RAMPA”
June 29th to September 1st
Summer in the Cuban capital welcomes this Fair that offers
cultural products of the different art expressions.
Organizer: Ministry of Culture
Venue: Pabellón Cuba, Havana City
Organizing Committee: Jorge Alfonso García
Phone number: (537) 830 6250
Fax: (537) 830 6250
E-mail:
alfonso@min.cult.cu
41st CUCALAMBEANA WEEK
June 30th to July 6th
A rural culture fiesta inspired in poet Juan Cristóbal
Nápoles Fajardo (El Cucalambé).
A Spanish-American Colloquium to discuss themes as the
décima (ten-line country verses) and the improvised verses
in national cultures of Spanish-American countries. Poets,
musicians, improvisers, artists, researchers and writers
will participate in the meeting. The Cucalambeana tradition
in the identity of peasant culture in Cuba is another theme
to be analysed in this event, which includes several
contests and a program of shows, fairs and traditional
games.
Organizer: Las Tunas Provincial Management Office of Culture
Venue: El Cornito, Las Tunas
Organizing Committee: Mrs.
Lourdes Medina Pérez
E-mail:
cdecima@tunet.cult.cu
,
dpclt@tunet.cult.cu
Web:
www.tunet.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
JULY
28th CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL “FIESTA OF FIRE”
July 3rd
to 9th
Genuine Caribbean traditions in a great popular festival of
dance and folklore. The Festival program, specially designed
for historians, artists, ethnologists and sociologists
interested in Caribbean culture, includes magic religious
rituals, concerts, workshops, colloquies, fairs and
exhibits. This time, the event will be dedicated to the
Mexican Caribbean, which will allow deepening into that
region’s culture.
Organizer: Santiago de Cuba’s Provincial Management Office
of Culture and the House of the Caribbean.
Venue: Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo provinces
Organizing Committee: Mr. Orlando Verges
E-mail:
caribe@cultstgo.cult.cu
Sitio Web:
www.casdelcaribe.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
AUGUST
CUBAN HIP-HOP MEETING AND FESTIVAL
August, 19th to 24th
A space for discussion, learning and redefining concepts
about topics related to Cuban Hip-Hop. In the event, the
best groups of this genre will perform; other foreign groups
will also take part as a point of reference for the
interchange of experiences with Cuban groups.
Organizer: National Council of Culture Houses
Venue: Havana
Organizing Committee: Mr. Guillermo Artiles
E-mail:
gartiles@cncc.cult.cu
Tour
operator: Paradiso
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