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WHAT’S ONHAVANAJAN 2013
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Carlos Varela in Concertpage 5
54th Premio Casa de las AméricasJan 21-31page 16
Marcha de la AntorchasJanuary 28
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ART
DANCE
MUSIC
PHOTOGRAPHY
PERFORMING ARTS
FOR KIDS
54 TH PREMIO CASA DE LAS AMÉRICAS
VI FESTIVAL AFROPALABRAS
HAVANA RESTAURANT GUIDE
ELENA’S UP & DOWNS TO DINING OUT IN HAVANA?
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Carlos Varaela en La Tropical
Carlos Varela in ConcertSala Avellaneda, Teatro Nacional, Jan 12, 8:30 pm
The popular singer-songwriter Carlos Varela—considered a paradigm of Hispano-American “intelligent song,” who combines Nueva Trova with rock in compositions that question his time—will be celebrating 30 years of artistic life with a concert that includes guest musicians Jackson Browne from the US, Brazilian Ivan Lins, Nicaraguan Luis Enrique and Puerto Rican Eduardo Cabra (Visitante of Calle 13), plus a chamber orchestra and seveal soloists.
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ART
THE DIRTY PINK PATCH AT THE CRISTO SALVADOR GALLERY by Ricardo Alberto Pérez
The Cristo Salvador Gallery, located in an apartment in the heart of El Vedado, is somethingof a breath of fresh air for those looking for something completely different in Cuba’sburgeoning art world. The recent exhibition Parcherosa sucio—Dirty Pink Patch…Read full article
CasaCarmenMontilla
BibliotecaPúblicaRubénMartínezVillena
CentroHispanoAmericanode Cultura
Opens Jan 26
ThroughoutJanuary
ThroughoutJanuary
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Casa del Benemérito de las AméricasBenitoJuárez
CasaOswaldoGuayasamín
Opens Jan 29
Opens Jan 25
Edición Número Cero: La Habana I
an exhibition ofcontemporary Brazilian art.
Martí, ese misterio que nos acompaña
a group exhibition of Cuban artists of severalgenerations and styles: paintings, sculptures,drawings, photographs and video art, inspired in the thought and spirituality of Cuba’s national hero, José Martí.
Sintonía de un patrimonio
by artist Maykel Herrera,known as “the painter of children”, given the countless and at times enigmatic presence of children in his paintings.
Alerta
a collection of over 30 daringly designed posters.
Velando, mamá
velando. Solo exhibition by the well-known Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell.
El viaje(Paredes que hablan)Factoría Habana
Antonio Eligio Fernández (Tonel), member of Hexágono, one of the memorable groups during the creative explosion of the 1980s, has made use of caricatures, drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations to examine, from aesthetics closely related to conceptualism and minimalism, both the everyday life of his immediate environment and the universal instinct of human beings.
AWH T’S ONAHAVAN !
Eligio Fernández (Tonel)
Centro de ArteContemporáneoWifredoLam
Centro de ArteContemporáneoWifredoLam
ThroughJan 14
ThroughJan 23
Intromisión
a group exhibition byteachers and students ofthe University of the Arts, a valid collection of abstractand figurative works, three-dimensional pieces, portraits and videos as recourses to tell ideas.
Wifredo Lam: entre la pintura y el grabado
an exhibition of 72 pieces (1941-1976) on the 110th anniversary of the birth of the Cuban painter. Along with the exhibit, severaldocumentaries on Lam will be shown: En la encrucijada del mundo 1902-1946; En busca de la unidad perdida 1946-1982; Wifredo y los poetas y Polvo de átomos,produced by Seven Doc from France, directed by Fabrice Maze and BarbroSchultz Lundesta, along with Wifredo Lam and Yaera otoño en París, directedby Humberto Solá and Jorge Aguirre, respectively.
GaleríaLatinoamericana.Casa de lasAméricas
ThroughoutJanuary
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GaleríaMarianoRodríguez.Casa de lasAméricas
GaleríaVillaManuela
MuseoNacionalde Bellas Artes(Edificiode Arte Cubano)
ThroughoutJanuary
ThroughoutJanuary
ThroughJan 13
Noticias de caminantesexhibits pieces bysignificant 20th-centuryartists Julio Le Parc and León Ferrari from Argentina, Carlos Cruz Diez from Venezuela, Antonio Saura from Spain, José Gamarra from Uruguay,Feliza Bursztyn fromColombia, Marta Palau fromMexico and RenéPortocarrero from Cuba. These pieces are part of the Casa de las Américas collection through the efforts of the painterMariano Rodríguez.
Cartografía del alma,Sculptures and installationsby William Pérez. On the exhibition, the curator and critic Corina Matamoroshas said: “He himself, his silhouette and his image appear profusely in his new pieces, like thinking about himself, which is like thinking about all of us.”
Mariano: vuelo y arraigo.Tribute on the centenary of painter Mariano Rodríguez,one of the most significantCuban artists of the 20th century. The 37 pieces thatmake up the exhibitioninclude paintings and drawings from 1950 to 1966, according to experts, a key period in the work of the artist, in which abstract painting has a definiteinfluence.
CentroProvincialde Artes Plásticas y Diseño
Conventode San Franciscode Asís
Galería El Reino de EsteMundo.BibliotecaNacionalJosé Martí
ThroughoutJanuary
ThroughoutJanuary
ThroughJan 21
19th City Salon under the theme “ContemporaryAesthetic Postulates in Society and Art.”
Apócrifos. Alfredo Rosales recreates human actions linked to the practice of Christian religiousnessthrough paintings on canvas and bristol
Tierra oscura summarizes Mario García Portela’slandscapes with their dense forests which seem to erfer to human nature.
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AWH T’S ONAHAVAN !ART
Exhibition by US-residentUmberto Peña, painter,draftsman, engraver and designer, one of the most important and influentialCuban graphic artists.
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RED BULL'S BREAKIN SALSA IN HAVANA by Ana Lorena Fernández
When the word on the Havana grapevine came through that Red Bull was sponsoring a BreakDance/Salsa competition we simply had to be there. Sometimes you run out of superlatives,perhaps super Cuban caliente conveys the general vibe. Cuban rapper and DJ Edgaro hosted, while Alexander Abreu got the crowd moving and 12 couples managed to take the best out of salsa...Read full article
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El Caballero de ParísJan 17, 8:30 pm: Teatro Karl MarxJan 19 & 26, 8:30 pm; Jan 20 & 27, 5:00 pm: Teatro Miramar
El Caballero de París, a tribute of musicians Descemer Bueno and Kelvis Ochoa and choreographer Eduardo Blanco of the National Ballet to a well remembered and loved character, who suffered from dementia and walked the streets of Havana until the 1970s. Based on Cuban traditional dances with ten Bueno and Ochoa compositions, the choreography is put together through the dream of a young boy after seeing the bronze sculpture of the “Gentleman from Paris” at the entrance of the San Francisco de Asís Convent in Old Havana.
GranTeatro de La Habana
Jan 1, 5, 11 & 12, 8:30 pm; Jan 6 & 13, 5:00 pm
The Nutcracker, based on the original version by Lev Ivanov and music byTchaikovsky, following the tradition of producing this ballet around the Christmas holidays. A coproduction of the National Ballet of Cuba, directed by Alicia Alonso and the La Fenice and Carlo Felice theaters of Veniceand Genoa, respectively.
Ballet
TeatroNacionalde Cuba
Sala Tito Junco.CentroCulturalBertoltBrecht
Cubadanza ( , the two-week long International Workshop on Cuban Modern Dance, teaches differentCuban popular rhythms and dances fromwhich Cuban modern dance draws on and shows how the pelvic region and the undulation of the torso, among other characteristics, are the fundamentalbasis of the Cuban technique of modern
Opens Jan 7)
Detrás de nadie, (25, 26 y 27 de enero, 8:30 pm) by the Contrapeso Colectivocompany, marks the reappearance in the Cuban dance scene of Sandra Rami, one of the most experimentalchoreographers of recent times and closely affiliated to the codes of dance-theatre.
Modern dance
DANCE AWH T’S ONAHAVAN !
El Caballero de París Cuba
ElPalenque
Saturdays,3 pm
El Patio de la Rumba: weeklymeeting with rumba dancers and musicians fromthe Conjunto Folklórico Nacional and guests.
RUMBA
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ZUCCHERO ROCKS THE HOUSE AT ISA (DEC 8, 2012)by Ana Lorena Fernández
70,000 people can’t be wrong, can they? They came from all corners of Havana, young, old, rockers,students, the cool crowd, the not so cool crowd to see the opening concert of Adelmo Fornaciari’sworld tour in the beautiful grounds of InstitutoSuperior de Arte (ISA) in the Western suburbs of the city. 57 years old and with 4 decades of experience Adelmo Fornaciari…Read full article
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Carlos Varela in ConcertSala Avellaneda, Teatro Nacional, Jan 12, 8:30 pm
The popular singer-songwriter Carlos Varela—considered a paradigm of Hispano-American “intelligent song,” who combines Nueva Trova with rock in compositions that question his time—will be celebrating 30 years of artistic life with a concert that includes guest musicians Jackson Browne from the US, Brazilian Ivan Lins, Nicaraguan Luis Enrique and Puerto Rican Eduardo Cabra (Visitante of Calle 13), plus a chamber orchestra and seveal soloists.
CaféConcertAdagio
CentroCulturalFresa y Chocolate
Sundays,10 pm
Sundays,5:00 pm
Performance by the band Aire de Concierto
Jazz with Julito Padrón and David Alfaro
JAZZ
MUSIC AWH T’S ONAHAVAN !
Contemporary fusion& electronicBarbaramPepito´sBar
CaféCantante,TeatroNacional
CentroCulturalFresa y Chocolate
Tuesdays, 9 pm
Sundays, 4 pm
Mondays, 10 pm
Performances by the band Polaroid, whose poeticsongs deal with the environment throughdifferent sonorities.
Los Kents, a “dinosaur” ofCuban rock, play their hits from the 60s and 70s.
Wichy D´Vedado, one of the most famous DJs in Havanawith the best of World
CentroCultural El Sauce
DiscotecaEscalerasal Cielo
Sala Che Guevara.Casa de lasAméricas
SubmarinoAmarillo
Sundays, 5 pm
Jan 18, 10 pm
Jan 9, 8 pm
Mondays, 9 pm
Discotemba La Máquina de la Melancolía. TrovadorFrank Delgado and the popular actor Luis AlbertoGarcía, who becomes a DJhere, offer a demanding selection of pop, rock, Cuban alternative music, pieces by singer-songwriters and audiovisual materials. Unlike other venues in the city, at LaMáquina, salsa, timba and merengue have been banned, and has been proudly declared “Freeterritory of reggaeton and bad vibes”.
Aceituna sin Hueso and their lead violin put out an interesting interaction of Celtic, Indian and Cuban sounds
Concert by one of Cuba’sfavorite musicians: RobertoFonseca and his band Temperamento, in which he combines Afro-Cubanrhythms, jazz, classical, electronic and Cuban traditional music.
The young singer GretelBarreiro delights her audiences wth rock songs from the 1970s and 80s.
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Contemporary fusion& electronic
Bolero, folkloric, son & trova124 y 45, Marianao
180 y Final, La Habana del Este
AsociaciónYoruba de Cuba
Jan 1, 9 pm
Jan 1, 9 pm
Fridays,8:30 pm
Haila María Mompié and her band, and Los Ángeles de La Habana
Elito Revé and his Charangón
Performance by the folkloric group Obiní Batá
MUSICBolero, folkloric, son & trovaAsociaciónYoruba de Cuba
Café Jade
BarbaramPepito´sBar
Fridays,8:30 pm
Thursdays,10:30 pm
Mondays, 9 pm
Sundays, 4 pm
Fridays, 9 pm
Saturdays,4 pm
Saturdays,10 pm
Thursdays,9 pm
Performance by the folkloric group Obiní Batá
Lynn Milanés
Four hours with FrankDelgado: and guests trovadores.
Performance by the folkloric group Los Ibellis
Anaís Abreu
The band Charanga de Oroplays pieces from the traditional repertory of Cuban popular dance music.
Argelia Fragoso
Trovador Fernando Beckersings his songs with a dose of mischief and humor.
Casa de África
CentroculturalFresa y Chocolate
Casa de la Música de Miramar
Jan 11, 3 pm
Saturdays,10:30 pm
Saturdays,5 pm
Folkloric group Obiní Batá
Performance by YeniSotolongo, a young figureof Cuban song who boasts an exceptional voice and varied repertoire.
The “in” place of Havana’strova scene, La Utopía (orthe “intellectual nightclub”)combines liveperformances bytroubadours, impromptuperformances by the audience, and videos of important domestic and international musicians of the past 50 years. The mostly youngintellectualistic crowd sings along to every song.
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Bolero, folkloric, son & trovaCentroCulturalPablo de la TorrienteBrau
Centro de la Décima
CentroHispanoAmericanode Cultura
Doble Vía y 7, Santiagode las Vegas
Hurón Azul (UNEAC)
Jardinesdel 1830
La Pérgola. Ministeriode Cultura
La Vereda (La Lisa)
Liceo de Regla
Parque La Herradura,San Miguel del Padrón
Jan 18, 5 pm
Jan 26, 4 pm
Jan 12, 5 pm
Jan 1, 9 pm
Saturdays,10 pm
Tue & Thu, 8:30 pm;Sun, 5 pm
Jan 27, 6 pm
Jan 1, 9 pm
Jan 1, 9 pm
Jan 1, 9 pm
Cuerda Joven, a newproject dedicated to the younger generations of Cuban trovadores,especially those from other provinces who are little known by audiences of the capital.
El Jardín de la Gorda with the performances oftrovadores from every generation.
Sampling, Cuban vocal group who sing a capella while reproducing differentinstruments with their voices.
Bamboleo
Noche de Boleros de Oro: Lovers of this romanticgenre par excellence havethe opportunity of meeting and enjoying the performances of the best Cuban bolero singers.
Performances by one of the most popular bands in Cuba, Moncada, with an extensive repertoire ofCuban and Latin American music.
El Pergolazo, new project oftrovadores Samuel Ávilaand Diego Cano
El Misha and Combinación de La Habana
Klímax and Bases Llenas
Maykel Blanco and Tiro de Mente
ParqueTrillo(CentroHabana)
Piano Bar DelirioHabanero.TeatroNacional
Jan 1, 9 pm
Fridays, 10 pm
Performance by rumba dancers
Performances by pop singer Verónica Velázquez
Plaza 26 de Julio (La Lisa)
PlazaGaray(Guanabacoa)
Plaza Roja, Municipio10 de Octubre
SalaAvenida
TribunaAntimperialista José Martí
Sedeprovisionaldel Museo Nacionalde la Música
Snack Bar. HotelTelégrafo
TeatroAmérica
Jan 1, 9 pm
Jan 1, 9 pm
Jan 1, 9 pm
Tuesdays, 5 pm
Jan 1, 9 pm
Jan 17, 5 pm
Thursdays,7 pm
Jan 5, 9 pm
Tania Pantoja
Son Yoruba and Los Desiguales
Laritza Bacallao, MaykoD’Alma and A.M.M.
Performance of salsa band Habana de Primera.
Van Van, Paulo FG and José Luis Cortés (El Tosco) with NG La Banda
The best tres player in Cuba, Pancho Amat and Cabildo del Son with a sample of the most Cuban of Cuban song and dance styles—“son.”
An informal meeting with the versatile contraltoIvette Cepeda, who has been much celebratedthanks to the subtleties she brings to her voice and her wide repertory of Cuban and international music.
Otro amanecer, concert-tribute to the famous Cuban composer MemeSolís, author of many hitsduring the 1960s and 70s, with the performances of Rosita Fornés, Ela Calvo, Farah María, Miguel Ángel Piña, Ivette Cepeda, and the quartets Los Cuatro and Génesis, among others.
MUSIC
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Jan 25, 6 pm
Jan 13, 6 pm
Jan 20, 6 pm
Jan 27, 6 pm
Jan 28, 6 pm
Bipolar, concert of Baroque music and of the 20th century by the cellistAlejandro Saúl Martínez.
Concert of the 2012 prizewinners in UNEAC’s Harold Gramatgesinterpretation and composition competition.
The soprano Johana Simón and the pianista Karla Martínez will perform puieces by Hugo Wolf and Richard Wagner.
The pianist Liana Fernández Neyra will play Shostakovich, Beethoven and Chopin, and Cuban composers Ernán López-Nussa and Frank Fernández, among others.
Performance by the Orquesta SinfónicaJuvenil José Martí, conducted by Marisol Cao Millián and Laura Mazón Franqui,with guest soprano Sonia Escalona and tenor Andrés Sánchez.
Jan 19, 6 pm
The Bach-Mozart Project, dedicated to the last two unfinished pieces by these great composers: The Art of the Fugue fuga (Bach) and Requiem (Mozart), will include the performances of the organist Moisés Santiesteban, the Chamber Orchesta de La Habana and the National Choir, conducted by Digna Guerra.
Jan 26, 6 pm
Jan 11, 6 pm
Jan 18, 6 pm
La soprano cubana Johana Simón ofrecerá un recital de habaneras líricas.
The Early Music Ensemble Ars Longa, conducted by Teresa Paz, will perform 16th- and 17th-century Christmas carols and romances from the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico, the southwesternUSA and parts of Central America).
El tesoro de las Indias. El villancico en Hispanoamérica de los siglos XVII y XVIII by the Early Music Ensemble Ars Longa, conducted by Teresa Paz.
Classical
Jan 19, 4 pm
Jan 10, 6 pm
Jan 26, 4 pm
Jan 12, 6 pm
Oratorio San Felipe Neri
Basílica Menor de San Francisco de Asís
Jan 5, 4 pm
Jan 5, 6 pm
Launching of the album Capricho cubano, with works by Alfredo Diez Nieto, one of the most important 20th-century composers in Cuba and LatinAmérica, in a concert by TríoConcertante, made up of threevirtuosos: the pianist Leonardo Gell, the violinist Fernando Muñoz del Collado and the clarinetist Dianelys Castillo.
Todo Mozart, by the orchestra NuestroTiempo, with the pianist María de los Ángeles Horta, condictyed by Enrique Pérez Mesa.
Concert by guitarist Rosa Matos and the duet Netzaj (Darío Martín, piano and Fadev Sanjudo, trumpet).
The pianist Ileana de Morales Alfonso will play works by Mozart, , Brahms,Soler, Albéniz, Prokofiev and Cubans Ignacio Cervantes and Ernesto Lecuona.
The School Orchestra of the Universityof the Arts will perform works byMozart.
The duet Netzaj (Darío Martín, piano and Fadev Sanjudo, trumpet), the pianist Gabriel Chorens, the Harold GramatgesChamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Amadeo RoldánConservatory and the choir Vocal Leo, conducted by Corina Campos, will perform a program of Cuban music.
MUSICMUSIC
Sala de Conciertos Ignacio Cervantes(antiguo Casino Español)
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Classical
Jan 12, 9 pm
Jan 19, 5 pm
Jan 19, 5 pm
Misa cubana. A la virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, composed by José María Vitier, with the performances of Bárbara Llanes, María Felicia Pérez,Amaury Pérez, Augusto Enríquez, Liuba María Hevia, the choir Exaudi and the chamber orchestra Solistas de LaHabana.
Debut performance of the string quartet 4 A’brazos.
Concert by Ensemble Alternativo,instrumental group conducted by GretaRodríguez.
Sala Covarrubias. Teatro Nacional
Centro Hispano Americano de Cultura
MUSIC
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JOHNNY FRATTASI’S “CUBAN LAYERS” by Johnny Frattasi’s
Johnny Frattasi is a NYC based photographer who recently traveled to Cuba to fulfill a longtime desire to experience the country firsthand and capture itsessence through his lens. In December, 2012, he held an exhibition in lower Manhattan entitled'Cuban Layers' as a glimpse into the beauty and contradictions that exist in modern day Cuba. Witha focus on the nation's extraordinary colors and textured backdrop, the images express unique contrasts by combining both the vibrant and subdued elements of Cuban society.Read full article
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CasaOswaldoGuayasamín
Centro de ArteContemporáneoWifredoLam
Sala de la Diversidad
ThroughJan
ThroughJan 15
Opens Jan 24
Rodrigo Petrella exploresthe customs and habitats ofhuman settlements in the immense BrazilianAmazonia.
The series Fachadas, by Donis D. Llagó Suárez, aims to emphasize on the social and cultural roles that converge at Havana’sfamous seafront wall, the Malecón, as a summary of the national reality.
exhibition by the Cuban biologist and photographer Nicasio Viñas, which is dedicated to the variety of animal life in the Caribbean region. The gallery will exhibit digital photos from seven high-resolutionscreens.
MuseoNacionalde Bellas Artes.Edificio de ArteCubano
Palacio de Lombillo
ThroughJan 12
ThroughoutJanuary
La fotografía y la memoria, solo exhibition byphotographer Ernesto Fernández, National Visual Arts Prizewinner 2011, comprises shots taken from the late 1950s to the 1980s.
Play-callejeros, by JoséJulián Martí is a collection ofpictures of children playing in the city streets.
Mares adyacentes, by Néstor Martí, focuses on the metaphysical relationshipbetween man and the sea.
Las 50 mejores fotos de National GeographicThrough Jan 14 Fototeca de Cuba
A selection of the 50 best pictures made by readers of the National Geographic Magazine in 2005. The pictures were taken during the 20th-21st centuries in different places by renowend photographers.
AWH T’S ONAHAVAN !PHOTOGRAPHY
Tuareg family gently sleeps
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EL PÚBLICO’S HOMOEROTIC TWELFTH NIGHT REACHES 100 by Victoria Alcalá
Going to the theater—at least in Cuba—to see a play by William Shakespeare as it was staged at The Globe in 17th-18th century England is quite impossible, yet dramatic art lovers continue to attend theater houses to see his works in this digital age when man is able to enjoy theater or filmproductions from the comfort of their homes... Read full article
CaféteatroBertoltBrecht
TeatroTrianón
Jan 8-24, Tue, Wed & Thu, 8:30 pm
Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; Sun, 5 pm
Peggy Pickit ve el rostro de Dios, by the German playwright RolandSchimmelpfennig, and the El Cuartel theater company,directed bySahily Moreda.
Caligula. El Público theatercompany reruns one of its most successful and provocative plays of their repertory, by Frenchnovelist, essayist, and dramatist, Albert Camus.
CaféTeatroBertoltBrecht
Fri, Sat & Sun, 8:30 pm
El flaco y el gordo, by the always controversial VirgilioPiñera, in a version and direction of José Milián by Pequeño Teatro de LaHabana. The humor is derived from the grotesque and the absurd in a play that explores the dehumanization of man in today’s society.
The year 2013 opens with the Jornadas Villanueva, an intensive theater season in Havana that privileges new Cuban playwrights. Many of the plays that were staged during the National Theater Festival held in Camagüey province in 2012 will be produced during the Villanueva Season.
PERFORMING ARTS AWH T’S ONAHAVAN !
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Wed & Thu, 6 pm
Gotas de agua sobre piedras calientes [Drops of water on HotStones]. In Rainer Warner Fassbinder’scomedy (under the direction of CarlosDíaz with Teatro El Público company), a young man who is looking for an apartment where he plans to live with his girlfriend after their wedding, is intercepted by a mature man, a manipulator of emotions, who the young man falls passionately in love with. The presence of the girlfriend and an ex-lover of the mature man give rise to serious conflicts. Díaz has chosen to make a reading of the play more fromthe domination/submission relationshiprather than from the twists and turns of homosexuality.
Opens Jan 11,Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; Sun, 5 pm
Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; Sun, 5 pm
Talco, written by Cuban playwright Abel González Melo and classified by some critics as “dirty realism, once again explores Havana’s underworld—a subworld of prostitution, drugs and marginal peopleThe rundown El Méganomovie theatre serves as setting where the events that lead to despair and deathtake place.
Las penas que a mí me matan. Teatrode Bolsillo presents the well-knownone-woman show by the Cuban playwright Albio Paz, The Woes that Kill Me, which recreates the emotions, experiences, frustrations and memories of an actress when she decides to leavethe stage.
Fri & Sat, 6:00 pm; Sun, 5 pm
Mi tío el exiliado deals with a recurrenttheme in the contemporary Cuban stage: exile and the authentic emotions and human miseries around the returnhome of a man who had to leave the country due to his homosexuality.Written by Yerandy Fleites Pérez and conducted by Fernando Quiñones.
Jan 4-20, Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; Sun, 5 pm
Perros que jamás ladraron, written and directed by Rogelio Orizondo, with three actors and a DJ, is based on photographs taken by Leni Riefenstahl, , stereotyped or not, that a tourist mayreceive of the Cuban reality.
Jan 18-27, Fri & Sat, 8:30 pm; Sun, 5 pm
Antigonón, un contingente épico(work in progress), by Rogelio Orizondo, staged by Teatro El Público. With onlytwo actresses on the stage, this reworking of the myth of Antigone uses recourses such as dance, fragmentationof the discourse and the intersexualityto delve into present-day concerns.
PERFORMING ARTSSala Adolfo Llauradó
Sala Adolfo Llauradó
Sala Argos Teatro
Sala Estudio. Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht
Sala Teatro El Sótano
Sala Tito Junco. Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht
Jan 22-24 , 8:30 pm
Antígona, by Yerandy Fleites. In the author’s opinion, Greek documents aredead materials that need to be dynamited, contemporized throughtoday’s outlook.” Therefore, his play,produced by the El Portazo theatercompany, approaches the Sophoclean character through the anguishes, frustrations and baseness of contemporary man.
Jan 8-17, Tue, Wed & Thu, 8:30 pm
Por gusto, play by Abel González Melo, staged by El Portazo company.According to Israel Domínguez, “deferent characters (a professor ofPhilosophy, a grammar schoolteacher, a painter and a policeman) converge in a point of passion and lack of affection, oflies and truth that get mixed up; wherethe search is motivated by impulses, dispiritedness, the lack of a true meaning of life.”
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AWH T’S ONAHAVAN !FOR KIDS
ISLA DEL COCO: HAVANA'S CITY THEME PARK
The old Coney Island which has been renamed Isla del Coco after a famous Cuban children’s story. It is located between the two roundabouts off 5ta in Playa and was completely renovated in 2008. This is classified as a mid-size theme park whatever that means. The location, literally by the sea, is idyllic although in summer the lack of shade is oppressive.
by Ana Lorena Fernández
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LA MAESTRANZA PARKby Ana Lorena Fernández
La Maestranza in Old Havana is the only Cuban park that lets kids jump till they’re exhausted. This playground has enabled children from the capital to release all their energy jumping and throwingthemselves down the air ramps without danger of breaking any bones along the way.
Splendidly located right across the Malecón, in the heart of the historic part of the city, the park offers a unique playful and restful opportunity for children and parents on weekends and holidays...Read full article
KIDS’ WORKSHOPS ON PASEO DEL PRADO by Ana Lorena Fernández
Every weekend, Paseo del Prado, the well-knownavenue that divides Old Havana from CentralHavana, and which is packed with sights, such as the Capitolio, the Saratoga Hotel and the Gran Teatro de La Habana, just to name a few, becomes the meeting place of artists and their small apprentices—kids 4 to 10 years old—who come here to learn the different techniques of visual arts.
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January 28: Birth of José Martí
If there is one date that unites all Cubans of any ideology or origin, it is January 28 when we celebrate the birthday of the Apostle of national independence, José Martí, who was born in 1853, on Paula Street in Havana, in the house that is currently marked with number 314. Poet, journalist, orator, essayist, translator...José Martí is not only the most significant literary figure of the 19th century in Cuba, he was also the organizer of the Cuban Revolutionary Party… against Spanish colonialism.
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JANUARY 1, 1959: TRIUMPH OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTIONby Victoria Alcalá
New Year’s Day has a special meaning in Cuba sinceit was on this first day of 1959, Cuba was shaken by a much-awaited news Fulgencio Batista, who had seized power through a military coup on March 10,1952, had fled the country in the early hours of the morning, finally convinced that he was unable to resist the determination of the rebels commandedby the young lawyer Fidel Castro, who after becoming strong in the mountains of the provinceof the then province of Oriente, marched westward.Read full article
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54th Premio Casa de las AméricasCasa de las Américas: Jan 21-31
The Casa de las Americas Literary Award is one of the most prestigious in Latin America. One of its principal activities is the launchings of the prize-winning books of the previous year, which will take place on Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 at Casa de las Américas headquarters, Sala Che Guevara. The prizewinning books are El tao del sexo, by Ignacio Apolo and Laura Gutman (theater, Argentina); Mi hermano llegó de otro planeta un día de mucho viento, by Liza Josefina Porcelli Piussi (novel for children, Argentina); El alufá Rufino: tráfico, esclavitud y libertad en el Atlántico negro (1822-1853), by João José Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes and Marcos de Carvalho (essay, Brazil); La sangre y el mar, by Gary Víctor (novel, Haiti); El problema de la unidad: política latina y la creación de identidad, by Cristina Beltrán (essay on Hispanics in the United States); Elogio de la altea o las paradojas de la racialidad, by Zuleica Romay (essay, Cuba); Obra cierta. Antología poética, by Humberto Vinueza (Ecuador); Promesa y descontento de la modernidad. Estudios literarios y culturales en América Latina, by Raúl Bueno (essay, Peru); and Blanco nocturno, by Ricardo Piglia (novel, Argentina). The prizewinning ceremony will be held on January 31, 2012, 7 pm at Sala Che Guevara.
54th PremioCasa de las Américas
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1960 Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes y Miguel Otero Silva
1965 Juan José Arreola, Nicolás Guillén Haydee Santamaría
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VI Festival AfropalabraXVII TALLER DE ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL Y CULTURAL AFROAMERICANA Y VI FESTIVAL AFROPALABRACasa de África Jan 5-9
The opening of the cultural year at Havana’s Historical Center will be marked by the 17th Workshop on Afro-American Social and Cultural Anthropology and the 6th African Word Festival with the presence of academicians, researchers and artists. The scientific sessions will be held at the Africa, Simón Bolívar and Benito Juárez House-Museums, while Casa de la Poesía will host the different actions related to the Afropalabra Festival. These house-museums will also be the venue of art exhibitions. The event will visit different places related to the African presence in Matanzas province on January 8 & 9.
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Casa de Africa
Casa de la Poesía
Plaza de SanFrancisco
BasílicaMenor de SanFranciscode Asís
9:30 amOpening of the photographic exhibition Ñaña, by Miguel Ángel García Velascoand performance of a choir of abakuá prayers and chants.
12:30 pmTribute to Gregorio Hernández (El Goyo).
3:00 pmEpiphany: Recalling an old tradition, the Afro-Cuban Council will tour the principal plazas of the Historic Centre.
7:30 pmOral narrators. Performances byOshumare dance company, ProyectoOzun, folkloricv group 4 Vientos, MayraNavarro, Octavio Pino, Luis Arnolys, Giraldo Cárdenas, Marta Cordies, Falconerys, Virginia López, José HéctorPomelapocha and Miriam Rock.
Casa de Africa
9:30 amOpening of the 17th Workshop on Afro-American Social and Cultural Anthropology
10:00 amLecture by Dr. Mirta Fernández on her book “Cantos de negritud.” Performanceby the Espacio Abierto theater company.
2:30 pmMaster lecture by Dr. María del Carmen Barcia. Launching of the book Del cabildo de nación a la casa de santo, by María del Carmen Barcia, AndrésTodríguez Reyes and Milagros Niebla Delgado.
7:00 pmOpening of the 6th African WordFestival. Performance by the Argentinean theater company Teatro en Sepia with the playAfrolatinoamericanas. De voces, susurros,gritos y silencios.
Jan 5, 2013 Jan 6, 2013
PROGRAM17th Workshop on Afro-American Social and CulturalAnthropology, and the 6th African Word Festival
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Castillo San Severino,Matanzas
Matanzas
Matanzas
9:00 amLecture "Poesía enmascarada, identidades negadas, en el carnaval de Buenos Aires” by Dr. Alicia Martín (Argentina).
9:30 am170th anniversary of the slave uprising at the Triunvirato sugar mill. Visit to places related to the African presence in the city of Matanzas.
10:00 amLecture “Tribus urbanas: realidades cubanas” by Dr. Enrique Alemán.
8:00 pmTour around the social and culturalcommunity project Afro Atenas
Casa de Africa
Casa de la Poesía
9:30 amLecture by Dr. Gema Valdés on the findings of the research on Bantu in linguistics in Cuba..
10:00 amOral narration ecvent conducted by Mirta Portillo
2:30 pmLaunching of Alejo Carpentier’s firstnovel: Écue-Yamba-Ó.
2:30 pmAfro-American poetry
7:00 pmClosing ceremony of the AfropalabraFestival. Performances by Síntesis,Chekendeke, Luna Manzanares, among others.
Jan 7, 2013 Jan 8, 2013
Jan 9, 2013
PROGRAM17th Workshop on Afro-American Social and CulturalAnthropology, and the 6th African Word Festival (contin...)
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El Divino ******Calle Raquel no. 50 e/ Esperanza y Lindero, Mantilla.(53 7) 643 7734 www.cubarestaurantedivino.com/
Divino gets our vote for the best place to eat in Havana. 6 stars out of 5. Simply brilliant, superlatives trip off the tongue. This is notionally an Italian place although amongst its many specialties is a range of grilled meats.
The place is huge with plentiful seating on the terrace as well as (our favorite) a number of ranchons. It boasts its own impeccably maintained botanical gardens which kids will love while you lounge the afternoon way. This is out of town past Hemmingway’s Fince Vigia just before you reach Lenin Park. Take a map and spend the afternoon – there is no-where else you need to get to on at the weekend!
5 STAR HAVANA RESTAURANTES new
Beduino Moroccan5ta entre 4 y 6 Belly dancing (Fri / Sat)
BellaHabanaCalle 6 y 7ma No. 512, Miramar, Playa
Bohemia21 y 13 Vedado
La Buena VidaNo 917, Calle 46, entre 11 y 9na. tel: (07) 202 5816
Paladar Calle 10Calle 10 No 314 btwn Avs 3 & 5
La CarboncitaAve. 3ra No. 3804 entre 38 y 40.tel: (07) 203 02615; 290 4984
Cazador del reyEsquina 18 y 3rd
La CasaCalle 30 No. 865 entre 26 y 41. tel:(07) 881 7000
El ChanchulleroTeniente Rey 457ª bajos / Bernaza y El Cristotel:(07 872 8227; 05 276 0938)
Le ChansonnierCalle J No. 257 entre Línea y 15. tel:(07) 832 1576
El GijonesPrado 309 esq a Virtudes | La Habana Vieja, Havana.
Italian74 y 9, Miramar
Tres Medallas20 Entre 3ra y 5ta
Casa de MiglisLealtad 120 entre Ánimas y Lagunas.tel: (07) 864 1486
NAO Bar PaladarObispo No 1 e/San Pedro y Baratillo | Old Havana
La Figura64 y 13
Doña EutimiaCallejón del Chorro No. 60.tel: 05 281 5883; 05 270 6433
Sangri - La42 y 11
La TerrazaPaseo del Prado No. 309 altos,esquina a Virtudes. tel: (07) 862 3626
Melem Bar1ra y 60
While taking advantage of the holiday season I embarked on the mission of eating out in new and old paladares in order to report on more ups and downs for the food enthusiasts in Havana. Here the results of the field research for this month.
DOWNS:
The zoo at Piccolo: This is where the best pizzas in Cuba are made (in my opinion). It is a cute restaurant in the beach town in Guanabo and the favorite of many families that like to stop for lunch on weekends after a morning in Playas del Este. The pizzas are baked in a wood oven and dressed with fresh ingredients from the vegetable garden on the premises. But as much as the food and prices are great, the little zoo thatthe restaurant keeps as entertainment for the children that visit is prettydepressing. There you will find a huge snake inside a tiny cage, a jutia (which is kind of an opossum mixed with a beaver) also in a small enclosure, and many caged birds. I mean, even in the case of snakes, there are few things more depressing than a big animal trapped in a small space.Calle 482 #503, % Ave 5 y 7, Guanabo, Cuba. Tel. 796-4300
The indoor area at Tres Medallas: This is definitely not the prettiest looking paladar in Havana. It wasopened about a year ago by Olympic champion Mireya Luis and her Italian husband. The restaurant, which is named in honor to the three gold medals that Mireya won in Barcelona, Atlanta, and Athens, offers a variety of
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decent Italian food (including wood baked pizzas) at decent prices. The place has an open outdoor area and it offers an indoor space too. For the hot months the indoor dining room provides the comfort of A.C. and a space away from the flies; nevertheless, the area is dark, cold, with little personality and loud music. I would highly recommend the owners hire a professional interior decorator to bring some charm to this uninvitingspace.Calle 20 # 313, e/ Av. 3ª y 5ª. Tel: 052 645 337
The turtle offering at many paladares: Without naming names I would love to mention this huge “down” in many paladares in town. Some of these restaurants are already great, with good food and service. So, if everything is already working well, why in the world do they have to offer endangered species in the menu? In this case I have decided to withhold the names of the places that have offered “caguama” or “tortuga” as a gourmet dish, but it is more than one. I know the line of legality and illegality in Cuba can be pretty gray, but this is not only illegal, people, it is immoral! And then, as far as I understand it just tastes like chicken… offerchicken then!
The wait time at Mi Jardín: This is among the oldest paladares in the city. It is a quiet and casual place and one of the few that offer Mexican cuisine. The food is good, they have a Pescado a la Veracruzana that can be nice and spicy, the Plato Mexicano is a great way to sample a few dishes, and the Totopos appetizer is reallyaddictive. But unfortunately not all is good: prepare to wait up to 25 minutes just for the drinks to be served, another long wait for the food, and if you care for a second drink it is not unusual that you will have to go and look for the waiter yourself. I mean, the waiters (who are part of the family that owns the paladar) are verynice, they are just very slow. So, if you arm yourself with a little patiente you might enjoy this cute place.Calle 66 No. 517 esquina a 5ta, Miramar. Tel: 203 4627
UPS:
The fresh pasta at La Corte del Principe: This is one of the newest paladares in Havana. It is a charming and yet unpretentious establishment with a few tables in a covered porch and with a limited menu written in a blackboard. The place is nice, the prices are good, service is fantastic… but what is more attractive about this place is the homemade pastas, they are really good and they are offered with a variety of sauces that are also very outstanding: four cheeses, carbonara, amatriciana and pesto to name a few. Follow the recommendationsof the owner, Sergio, who will give you personalized service and a detailed description of his Italian creations.You will want to come back. Beware than even though it is an Italian place, pizza is not served.Calle 9 Esq. 74, Playa. Tel: 05 255-9091
Baby eels salad at Ivan Justo (aka Aguacate 9): I have to acknowledge that I might not order baby eels for my last dinner,actually I might not order baby eels for any dinner; but that is just me, and I have to say that my Spanish dining accomplices went head overheals for this menu item at Ivan Justo. Apparently this is one of the veryfew restaurants in Havana serving this gourmet tiny creatures. The paladar is located at Aguacate 9 and often called more by its addressthan by its name, it has an interesting menu that includes beef, lamb, rabbit, suckling pig, paella, appetizers such as the eel’s salad and home made pastas. The prices are a little bit in the high side, but the place is very pretty and service is good. No way to lose with this one. Aguacate 9, esquina Chacón. Habana Vieja. Tel: 863 9697
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Hot plate cooking at PPs Teppanyaki: Located in the heart of Vedado this paladar opened just a fewmonths ago with a Japanese menu that includes a variety of sushi and, of course, teppanyaki, the kind of Japanese cuisine that involves cooking on a hot plate in front of the customer. The menu at PPs Teppanyakiincludes a variety of meats (shrimp, beef, and pork) prepared and presented in different traditional styles. All of them were really good during my visit. The skillful cooks explain every step of the cooking process and areable to make accommodations for any particular taste and answer any question about this cuisine. Prices are reasonable and reservations are recommended, since there are only two hot plates with about 12 chairs each.Calle 21 No. 104, apto 4 e/ L y M, Vedado. Tel: 836 2530
Piña Colada at La Casa: La Casa is one of the oldest paladares in Havana, and it is often missed by many in the expat community because of its location on a very quiet street in Nuevo Vedado. The place is nice and has an interesting interior garden. The service, supervised by owner Alejandro Robaina, is spotless and the food is fairly good, including the Japanese menu they had on Thursdays. But one of the high points of this restaurantis their piña coladas; they are just out of this world. They are served in a carved pineapple and are a meal in itself made with fresh fruit, a generous serving of rum and ice. Don’t miss having one of these cocktails!Calle 30 No. 865 e/ Avenida 26 y 41.Nuevo Vedado. Tel: 881 7000
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Ballet Nacional de Cuba
Café Neruda
Casa de África
Casa Alejandro de Humboldt
Casa de Artes y TradicionesChinas
Casa de Asia
Casa de las Américas
Casa de los Árabes
Casa del Benemérito de las Américas
Calzada 509 entre D y E, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 855 2946
Malecón 355 entre Manrique y San Nicolás, Centro Habana
Obrapía 157 entre Mercaderes y San Ignacio, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 5798
Oficios esquina a Sol, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 9850
Salud 313 entre Gervasio y Escobar,Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 863 5450 / 860 9976
Mercaderes 111 entre Obrapía y Obispo, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 9740
Calle 3ra. esquina a G, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 838 2706-09
Oficios 16 entre Obispo y Obrapía, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 5868
Obrapía 116, entre Mercaderes y Oficios, La Habana Vieja Tel. +(53) 7 861 8166
Casa de la Comedia (sala-teatro)
Casa del Conde Lombillo
Casa Fundación OswaldoGuayasamín
Casa Juan GualbertoGómez
Casa de la Obra Pía
Casa de la Orfebrería
Casa de los Condes de Jaruco
Jústiz 18, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 9282
Empedrado entre Mercaderes y San Ignacio, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 860 4311-14
Obrapía entre Oficios y Mercaderes, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 3843
Empedrado entre Aguiar y Cuba, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 866 4114
Obrapía entre Mercaderes y San Ignacio, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 3097
Obispo 113 entre Oficios y Mercaderes, La Habana Vieja Tel. +(53) 7 863 9861
Plaza Vieja, La Habana Vieja
CULTURAL CENTRES
Casa de la Poesía
Casa y Parque Simón Bolívar
Casa Víctor Hugo
Caserón del Tango
Casona de Línea
Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht
Centro Cultural Dulce María Loynaz
Muralla 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 1801
Mercaderes 158 entre Obrapía y Lamparilla, La Habana Vieja Tel. +(53) 7 861 3988
O’Reilly 311 entre Habana y Aguiar,La Habana ViejaTeléfono 866 7591
Jústiz entre Baratillo y Oficios, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 0822
Línea 505 entre D y E, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 833 8562
Calle13 esquina a I, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 9359
Calle 19 esquina a E, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 835 2732
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Centro de Danza de La Habana
Centro Hispano-Americano de Cultura
Centro de Teatro y Danza
ConjuntoFolklóricoNacional de Cuba
Escuela Nacional de Teatro
FundaciónLudwig de Cuba
Convento de Belén
Muralla 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 5162
Prado 111, entre genio y Refugio, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 9131 / 866 0808
Malecón 17 entre Prado y Genio, Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 860 6282
San Ignacio 166 entre Obispo y Obrapía, La Habana Vieja.Tel. +(53) 7 862 9650 / 862 9448
Calle 4 número 103 entre Calzada y 5ta., El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 830 3060
Calle 11 esquina a 146, Cubanacán, PlayaTel. +(53) 7 208 4923
Calle 13 núm. 509 entre D y E (5to. piso), El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 4270 / 832 9128
Compostela entre Acosta y Luz, LaHabana Vieja
FundaciónHabana Club
Avenida del Puerto 262 entre Luz y Sol, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 4108
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Gabinete de Arquelogía
Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística
InstitutoSuperior de Arte (ISA)
ProyectoCultural Arte Tiempo
ProyectoCulturalComunitarioTodas las Manos
Tacón 12 entre O’Reilly y Empedrado, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 4469
Dr. José Antonio Portuondo ValdorAvenida Salvador Allende 710,Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 878 6486
Calle 120 entre 9na. y 13, Cubanacán, PlayaTel. +(53) 7 271 9771
Cárdenas 114, bajos, entre Gloria y Apodaca, La Habana Vieja Tel. +(53)7 537-8 61 2838
Trocadero 303 esquina a Águila, Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 861 3260
Centro Cultural ICAIC
Cine Acapulco
Cine Chaplin
Cine La Rampa
Calle 23 entre 10 y 12, El Vedado
Avenida 26 esquina a 39, NuevoVedadoTel. +(53) 7 833 9573
Calle 23 entre 10 y 12, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 831 1101
Calle 23 entre O y P, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 878 6146
Dos Gardenias
El Gato Tuerto
El Sauce
La Cecilia
La Maison
La Pérgola
La Piragua
La Zorra y el Cuervo
Piano bar Hotel Panorama
Calle 7ma. y 26, Miramar
Calle O entre17 y 19, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 55 2696
Calle 9na. Entre 120 y 130, PlayaTel. +(53) 7 204 7061
5ta. Avenida entre 110 y 112, Miramar
Calle 16 entre 7ma. y 31, Miramar
Ministerio de CulturaCalle 13 entre 2 y 4, El Vedado
Calle O y Malecón, El Vedado
(La Casa del Jazz Cubano)Calle 23 esquina a O, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 833 2402
Ave. 3ra. y 70, MiramarTel. +(53) 7 204 0100
Vitrina de Valonia
San Ignacio entre Teniente Rey y Muralla, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 868 3561
Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)
Unión Latina
Calle 17 esquina a H, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 4551-53Tel. +(53) 7 832 4551-53
Callejón de Jústiz 21, entre Oficiosy Avenida del Puerto, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 866 8142 / 866 8255Tel. +(53) 7 832 4551-53
CULTURAL CENTRESCULTURAL CENTRES
NIGHTLIFE
CINEMAS
Cine Payret
Cine Riviera
Cine Yara
Cine 23 y 12
CinematógrafoLumière
Cine-teatroTrianón
Multisala Infanta
Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
Prado 513, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 3163
Calle 23 entre F y G, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 830 9564
Calle L esquina a 23, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 831 1723 / 832 9430
Calle 23 entre 12 y 14, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 833 6906
Mercaderes entre Obispo y Obrapía, La Habana Vieja
Línea entre Paseo y A., El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 830 9648
Infanta entre Neptuno y San Miguel, Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 878 9323
Quinta Santa Bárbara, calle 212 núm. 21254 esquina a 31, LaCoronela, La LisaTel. +(53) 7 271 8311 / 271 8141
ART GALLERIES
Centro de Arte ContemporáneoWifredo Lam
Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales
CentroLaboratorioArtístico de San Agustín (LASA)
CentroProvincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño
Colección Arte de Nuestra América Haydée Santamaría
Empedrado esquina a San Ignacio,La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 9781 / 861 3419
San Ignacio 352 esquina a TenienteRey, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 5279, 862 9295 / 862 3533
Calle 23 esquina a 35, San Agustín, La Lisa
Oficios 362 entre Luz y Santa Clara, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 3228 / 862 3295 / 866 0280
Casa de las Américas Calle G entre 3ra. y 5ta., El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 838 2706-09
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Fototeca de Cuba
GaleríaAvellaneda
Galería de Arte Malecón
Galería Carmen Montilla
Galería Collage Habana
Galería Factoría Habana
Galería Forma
Galería Fresa y Chocolate
GaleríaFundaciónHabana Club
GaleríaFundaciónLudwig
Galería Galiano
Galería Habana
Galería Haydee Santamaría
Galería Julio Larramendi
Mercaderes 307 entre Muralla y Teniente Rey, Plaza Vieja, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 2530Tel. +(53) 7 832 4551-53
Teatro NacionalCalle Paseo y 39, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 870 4651
Calle D, entre 1ra, y 3ra., El Vedado
Oficios 162 entre Amargura y Churruca, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 866 4114
San Rafael 103 entre Consulado e Industria, Centro Habana
O´Reilly 308 entre entre Habana y Aguiar, La Habana Vieja
Obispo 255 entre Cuba y Aguiar,La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 2633
Calle 23 entre 10 y 12, El Vedado
Avenida del Puerto y Sol, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 4108
Calle 13 esquina a D, 5to. piso, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 4270 / 832 9128
Galiano esquina a Concordia,Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 862 5365
Línea 460 entre E y F, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 7101
Calle G entre E y F, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 4653
Hotel Conde de VillanuevaMercaderes 202 entre Lamparilla y Amargura, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 9294 / 862 9293
ART GALLERIES
Galería Orígenes
Galería Palacio de la Artesanía
Galería El Reino de Este Mundo
Galería René Portocarrero
Galería Raúl Martínez
Galería Raúl Oliva
Galería Roberto Diago
GaleríaServando
GaleríaServandoCabrera
Galería Víctor Manuel
Galería Villa Manuela
Galería La Acacia
GaleríaLatinoamericana
San José 114 entre Industria y Consulado, Centro Habana Tel. +(53) 7 863 9364 / 861 3533
Casa de las Américas Calle G entre 3ra. y 5ta., piso 2, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 4653
Galería Mariano Calle 15 núm. 607 entre B y C, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 838 2702
Gran Teatro de La HabanaPrado y San Rafael, CentroHabanaTel. +(53) 7 863 6690
Cuba 64, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 33 8072 y 861 9796
Biblioteca Nacional José MartíBoyeros entre 20 de Mayo y Aranguren, Plaza de la RevoluciónTel. +(53) 7 881 1757
Teatro NacionalCalle Paseo y 39, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 870 4651
Palacio del Segundo CaboO’Reilly 4 esquina a Tacón, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 8091 ext. 151
Centro Cultural Bertolt BrechaCalle13 esquina a I, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 9359
Muralla 107 esquina a San Ignacio,La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 3577
Calle 23 esquina a 10, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 833 9599
Calle 42 entre 1ra. y 3ra., La Copa, PlayaTel. +(53) 7 203 7171
San Ignacio y Callejón del Chorro, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 866 9268
Calle H número 406 entre 17 y 19,El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 2391
Galería 23 Y 12
Hotel Los Frailes
TallerExperimental de Gráfica de La Habana
Taller de Serigrafía René Portocarrero
Calle 23 esquina a 12, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 831 1810
Teniente Rey 8 entre Oficios y Mercaderes, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 9383
Callejón del Chorro, Plaza de la Catedral, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 0979
Cuba 513, entre Teniente Rey y Muralla, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 3276 / 861 9354Tel. +(53) 7 862 3276 / 861 9354
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Maqueta de LaHabana
Monumento de la Cárcel de La Habana
MuseoAntropológicoMontané
Museo de Arqueología
Museo de Arte Colonial
Museo Biblioteca ServandoCabrera Moreno
Museo Casa Natal de José Martí
Calle 28 núm. 113, entre 1ra. y 3ra.,MiramarTel. +(53) 7 204 2661 / 332661Memorial José MartíPlaza de la RevoluciónTel. +(53) 7 882 0906 / 884 0551
Cárcel entre Zulueta y Prado, LaHabana Vieja
Edifico Felipe Poey, Plaza IgnacioAgramonte, Universidad de LaHabana, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 879 3488
Tacón 12 entre O’Reilly y Empedrado, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 4469
Plaza de la Catedral, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 6440
Calle Paseo 304 esquina a 13, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 835 2027 / 836 0010
Leonor Pérez 314, entre Picota y Egido, La Habana Vieja Tel. +(53) 7 861 3778
Fototeca de Cuba
Mercaderes 307 entre Muralla y Teniente Rey, Plaza Vieja, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 2530Tel. +(53) 7 832 4551-53
MUSEUMS
Museo Castillo de la Real Fuerza
Museo del Chocolate
Museo de la Ciudad
Museo de la Danza
Museo Ernest Hemingway
MuseoFarmacéuticoTaquechel
Museo de Historia Natural
Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Museo Nacional de la Cerámica Contemporánea
Museo Nacional de la Música
Museo de Naipes
O’Reilly entre Avenida del Puerto y Tacón, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 6130
Amargura esquina a Mercaderes,La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 866 4431
Tacón 1 entre Obispo y O’Reilly, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 5001
Línea esquina a G, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 831 2198
Finca Vigía, San Francisco de Paula, San Miguel del PadrónTel. +(53) 7 891 0809
Obispo entre San Ignacio y Mercaderes, La Habana Vieja
Obispo 61 entre Baratillo y Oficios,La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 2687
Obispo 61 entre Baratillo y Oficios,La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 2687
(Arte Cubano)Trocadero entre Monserrate y Zulueta, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 0140, 861 3858 y 863 9484
Centro Asturiano (Colección Universal)San Rafael entre Zulueta y Monserrate, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 0140 / 861 3858 /863 9484
Calle Mercaderes, esquina a Amargura, La Habana Vieja
Capdevila 1 entre Habana y Aguiar,La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 9046
Inquisidor y Muralla, Plaza Vieja, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 860 1530
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MuseoNapoleóni-co
Museo
Museo de la Perfumería
Museo Postal Cubano
San Miguel y Ronda, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 879 1412 / 879 1460
Obispo entre Cuba y San Ignacio,La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 5811
Oficios, entre Obispo y Obrapía, LaHabana Vieja
Avenida de Rancho Boyeros entre19 de Mayo y 20 de Mayo(Ministerio de Comunicaciones),Plaza de la RevoluciónTel. +(53) 7 870 5581
Museo de la Revolución y MemorialGranma
Museo del Ron
Museo del Tabaco
Refugio 1 entre Monserrate y Zulueta, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 4091
Avenida del Puerto 262 entre Luz y Sol, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 4108
Mercaderes 120 entre Obispo y Obrapía, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 861 5795
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Basílica Menor del Convento de San Francisco de Asís
Gran Teatro de La Habana
Iglesia de San Francisco de Paula
Jardines de la Tropical
Oficios y Churruca, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 9683
Prado y San Rafael, Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 861 3077-79
Desamparados y San Ignacio,Alameda de Paula, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 860 4210
Avenida Tropical y Rizo, PlayaTel. +(53) 7 881 8767
Parque Histórico Militar Morro-Cabaña
Sala del TransporteAutomotor
Carretera de la Cabaña, La Habana del EsteTel. +(53) 7 861 6130 / 861 5001
Oficios y Callejón de Jústiz, LaHabana Vieja
MUSEUMS
Fototeca de Cuba
Mercaderes 307 entre Muralla y Teniente Rey, Plaza Vieja, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 2530Tel. +(53) 7 832 4551-53
MUSIC
LiceumMozartiano de La Habana
Maxim Rock
Oratorio San Felipe Neri
Palacio del Teatro Lírico Nacional
Sala Lecuona
Teatro Amadeo Roldán
Avenida Tropical y Rizo, PlayaTel. +(53) 7 881 8767
Bruzón 62, entre Almendares y Ayestarán, Plaza de la RevoluciónTel. +(53) 7 877 5925
Aguiar esquina a Obrapía, LaHabana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 862 3243
Zulueta 253 entre Ánimas y Neptuno, La Habana Vieja
Prado y San Rafael, Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 861 3077 / 3079
Calzada y D, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 4521-22
THEATRES
Capilla de El CiervoEncantado
Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht
Cine-teatroTrianón
Estudio Teatral Vivarta
Gran Teatro de La Habana
Sala Adolfo Llauradó
Sala Argos Teatro
Sala Hubert de Blanck
Sala-TeatroBuendía
Calle D esquina a 5ta., El Vedado
Calle13 esquina a I, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 9359
Línea entre Paseo y A, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 830 9648
Paseo peatonal, Avenida Carlos III, Centro Habana
Prado y San Rafael, Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 861 3077-79
Calle 11 entre D y E, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 5573
Ayestarán 307 esquina a 20 de Mayo, El CerroTel. +(53) 7 878 5551
Calzada 657 entre A y B, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 830 1011
Calle 39 entre Loma y Bellavista,Nuevo VedadoTel. +(53) 7 881 6689
Sala de teatro Las Carolinas
Teatro América
Teatro Astral
Teatro El Sótano
Teatro Fausto
Teatro Karl Marx
Teatro Mella
Teatro Nacional
Amargura 61, entre Mercaderes y San Ignacio, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 860 4341
Galiano entre Concordia y Neptuno, Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 862 5416
Infanta 501, Centro HabanaTel. +(53) 7 878 1001
Calle K entre 25 y 27, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 0630
Prado y Colón, La Habana ViejaTel. +(53) 7 863 1173
Calle 1ra y 8, MiramarTel. +(53) 7 203 0801 / 209 1991
Línea entre A y B, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 830 4987
Paseo y 39, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 879 3558 / 879 6011
Teatro Nacional de Guiñol
Calle M entre 19 y 21, El VedadoTel. +(53) 7 832 6262 / 832 8292