Cuban Film Habanastation Premieres in USA

Los Angeles, Jul 28 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban film Habanastation by young director Ian Padron will premiere Thursday at the Traverse City Film Festival in founded by U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore.

Padron and actress Blanca Rosa Blanco, one of the stars of Habanastation, will be at the premiere, a one-time screening at the Lars Hockstand Auditorium in Traverse City, Michigan, for which tickets were sold out in advance.

Amy Winehouse Dead at 27

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In a turn of events no less sickening for being oft-predicted, Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her London home. The singer — who has a long, well-documented, and extremely troubled history with drugs and alcohol; and whose most famous song included the lines, “They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no” — was only 27. She now has the ignominious distinction of joining a group of gone-too-soon, legendary-but-

Guanajuato Film Festival to Start Friday

Mexico, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) Director of the Guanajuato International Film Festival Sara Hoch said everything is ready for the event scheduled to run July 22-31.

The Festival will be held on July 22-26 in the city of San Miguel de Allende and on July 27-31 in the city of Guanajuato.

Casa de las Americas Exhibit on Caribbean Myths, Realities

Havana, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) The myths, religions and popular traditions of the Caribbean are the focus of an exhibit by Cuban artist Caridad Regina Garcia that opened Saturday at the Mariano Rodriguez Gallery.

Brazilian Singer Simone to Perform in Cuba

Havana, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian singer Simone will arrive in Cuba Friday to offer a unique concert on Sunday at Havana”s Karl Marx Theater, but no other details have been made public.

Simone, one of the most popular Brazilian singers, will have an audience of more than 5,000 spectators, followers of her career.

Hemingway is Still Alive in Cuba, Jenny Phillips Says

Havana, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) U.S. intellectual Jenny Phillips, co-chair of the Boston-based Finca Vigia Foundation, said in Havana that the legacy of novelist Ernest Hemingway is still alive in Cuba, unlike in her own country.

* Ernest Hemingway Colloquium Opened in Cuba

“Americans know about Hemingway through his books, or libraries and museums that commemorate him, but throughout this island, there is a real oral tradition about his life. He is alive in the Cuban landscape, and this has been exciting for me,” Phillips said.

Cuban National Ballet to Perform in Washington on Tuesday

Havana, May 29 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban National Ballet (BNC) is scheduled to perform on Tuesday in Washington DC, kicking off a month-long tour of the United States, the latest in a series of cultural exchanges between the two countries. The world-renowned troupe will then go to New York and Costa Mesa, California, before wrapping up the tour in Los Angeles on June 26.

Next CUBADISCO Fair to Honor the Guitar

Santiago de Cuba, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The CUBADISCO 2012 International Fair will be dedicated to the guitar as an instrument in various performance aspects, said Ciro Benemelis, president of the Organizing Committee.

CUBADISCO 2012 will be dubbed “The City of a Thousand Strings,” referring to a piece by the maestro Leo Brouwer, and activities in the provinces, Benemelis added.

Cuba: Caribbean Literature and Languages in Symposium

Havana, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Caribbean literature and it’s development in the last few years will be the main focus this Tuesday on the agenda of the International Symposium on Cultural Diversity in the Caribbean, with participating scholars and artists from 10 countries.

Called by Casa de las Americas and co-sponsored by the UNESCO Regional Office of Culture for Latin America and the Caribbean, the second day of the event will feature a panel headed by Cubans Nancy Morejon, Roberto Fernandez Retamar and Pablo Amando Fernandez, to pay tribute to the recently deceased Martinican poet Edouard Glissant .