Chamber Orchestra Música Eterna Performs in Western Cuba

October 9, 2018

The Chamber Orchestra Música Eterna, directed by National Music Prize winner Guido López Gavilán, will perform these days in the western provinces, in celebration of the Cuban Culture Day. This initiative is also dedicated to the 9th Congress of Uneac and for the occasion an attractive program has been chosen that includes works by Chaikovsky, Falla, Piazzolla, and also by great Cuban musicians such as Ignacio Piñeiro, Enrique Jorrín and Sindo Garay. In Bejucal, Bauta and Artemisa, it will perform this Tuesday the 9th, Wednesday the 10th, Thursday and 11th, respectively, and compositions signed by Guido López Gavilán will also be heard. The Chamber Orchestra Música Eterna will also perform in Pinar del Río (13), Las Terrazas (14), Matanzas (20) and Cárdenas (21). The José Martí National Library will host, on October 18, the concert that this outstanding group has reserved for the capital.

Zapatista Art Will Be Exhibited at Casa de las Américas

For the first time, Casa de las Américas, in Havana, Cuba, will exhibit a collection of works by Zapatista Bases of Support communities and international artists inspired by this movement under the title A World Where Many Worlds Fit. The exhibition, which will be inaugurated in the context of the III International Colloquium of Indigenous Cultures to be held at the cultural institution from tomorrow the 9th to October 12, contains pieces in painting, embroidery, installations, photography and video from the Zapatista Art Festivals "CompArte por la Humanidad," records from the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 that account for the extensive artistic production carried out by indigenous peasants in the rebel territories of southern Mexico: theater, music, dance, poetry, and even performance. Likewise, Mexican and international artists who have been inspired by Zapatismo to create art are included. Among them are the graphic pieces by Mexicans Gran OM, the collective Escuela de Cultura Popular Mártires del 68 and a collection of engravings, made for the National Indigenous Congress; video work by Mexican artist based in the USA, Fran Ilich; a visual work from the project that integrates the culture area of the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas; and a video and photography installation by the Russian collective Chto Delat. A World Where Many Worlds Fit can be visited at the institution's Latin American Gallery until the month of December.

Unpublished Pages with Narrator Dazra Novak, at Librería Fayad Jamís

Narrator Dazra Novak will be the guest, on Thursday October 11 at four in the afternoon, of the Unpublished Pages space, conducted by journalist and critic Fernando Rodríguez Sosa, at Librería Fayad Jamís, at Obispo 261, between Cuba and Aguiar, in the Havana Historic Center, dedicated on this occasion to Cuban Culture Day. Dazra Novak is the author of the short story collections Reserved Body and Public Body, of the novel Making of and of the blogs Havana from Within and Public Body. She has been awarded, among other recognitions, the Pinos Nuevos, David, Special Carrot Head, UNEAC Cirilo Villaverde Novel and Frónesis Scholarship prizes; mentions in the Julio Cortázar Ibero-American Short Story Prize, and was a finalist in the Alejo Carpentier Novel Prize. Born in Havana in 1978, Dazra Novak holds a degree in History from the University of Havana and is a graduate of the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center.

Havana Will Host the First Cypriot Film Festival

The film Rosemari, by director Adonis Floridis, will open the First Cypriot Film Festival in Cuba, scheduled from this Tuesday the 9th to October 14 in Havana. The film tells the story of a desperate soap opera screenwriter who has run out of ideas, which leads him to follow the lives of his problematic neighbors seeking inspiration, but what he gets is to face the harsh reality of his surroundings and reveal his most hidden secrets. As explained at a press conference by the Head of Mission of the Embassy of Cyprus in Cuba, Stelios Georgiades, along with this film, three other feature films recently produced will be screened, and two of them, he emphasized, with several international awards. He also added that this joint collaboration with the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry confirms the excellent relations between Cuba and Cyprus, two islands geographically very distant but with many elements in common, the diplomat said. During the exhibition, which will be held at the Acapulco Cinema, the films A Boy on the Bridge (2016), Family Member (2015), and Conveyor Belt (2015) will also be screened.

Source: Haciendo Radio