Cuban Culture

Original Cuban Artworks at Casa de las Americas

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In spite of the decades-long US embargo on Cuba, Americans and Cubans have found ways to get to know one another, especially through cultural exchanges.

Casa de las Americas of NY has obtained over 30 original works of art by well known Cuban artists that are for sale.

This is your opportunity to not only view these dynamic works of art but to also own one of them.
• Select from a great range of extraordinary original art, at all great prices
• An investment opportunity, not to be missed
• Landscapes, abstracts, portraits, still life, surrealism paintings

182 East 111th St. (bet. Third and Lexington Ave.)
#6 Lexington Ave. line train to 110th St.
Friday, October 14, 2011 5:00PM to 8:00PM

Proceeds of the sale of the art work will help fund the US tour of La Colmenita, a national children’s theater group of Cuba

Cuban Medicine, Uncategorized

Salud ~ Cuba Medical Film

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FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH/FILM FESTIVAL!

In 2006, President Ricardo Alarcon of the Cuban parliament, called for the period of time between September 12th through October 6th, to be a time to call attention to the case of the Cuban 5; 5 U.S. held political prisoners incarcerated for 13 years for fighting against terrorism in the United States and Cuba. In New York City, we extend the time frame by 6 days to make it a full month, Sept. 12th-Oct. 12th.

This year, The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 is organizing a film festival and a series of forums to educate, organize and mobilize for the freedom of these innocent men! Please Support our efforts! Contact us if you want to host a film showing or a forum! Email us at: freethecuban5@gmail.com or call
718-601-4751

¡Salud!:

A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud!hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba — now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right.

A feature documentary, ¡Salud! is directed by Academy Award nominee Connie Field and co-produced by Gail Reed. The film spans three continents to look at the philosophy and health professionals placing Cuba on the map in the worldwide movement to make health care a global birthright. Today, Cubans are among the world’s healthiest people, despite the island’s poverty. Cuba’s volunteer corps now posts 28,000 health professionals in 68 countries; and Cuban medical schools will graduate an unprecedented 100,000 new doctors from developing countries over the next decade.

Friday Sept. 30th, 2011 at 7pm-10pm

Casa de las Américas, 182 East 111th St. (bet. Third and Lexington Ave.)
#6 Lexington Ave. line train to 110th St.
Friday, October 14, 2011 5:00PM to 8:00PM
Puerto Rico Struggle

REMEMBERING THE VIEQUES STRUGGLE

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REMEMBERING THE VIEQUES STRUGGLE

Monday Nov. 28th, 2011 at 6:30pm
Casa de Las Americas
182 E. 111th St. (btwn. Lexington Ave. and third Ave.) Take the 6 train to E. 111th St.
Suggested donation: $5-10 (no one will be turned away due to lack of funds)

BEFORE WE OCCUPPIED WALL STREET;
BEFORE THE UPR STUDENT STRIKE;
BEFORE THE PROTESTS OF THE GAS PIPELINE
THE PUERTO RICAN PEOPLE PROTESTED THE MOST POWERFUL NAVY IN THE WORLD AND WON!

Join the ProLibertad Freedom Campaign as welcome veteran Vieques activist Robert Rabin, Director of the Fort Count Mirasol Museum in Vieques and spokesperson of El Comite Pro-Rescate y Desarollo de Vieques, to New York!

Come hear an update on:
The Community Struggles in Vieques


The work for de-contamination


The devolution of Vieques’ lands

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
 www.ProLibertadWeb.com


ProLibertad@hotmail.com
 718-601-4751

Cuban Culture, Uncategorized

Cuban Film Festival

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Cuban Film Festival

Fidel: The untold story:

Whether dismissed as a relic or revered as a savior, all agree that Fidel Castro, nearing 44 years as the leader of Cuba, is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. Rarely are Americans given a chance to see inside the world of this socialist leader.

The new documentary film FIDEL by Estela Bravo offers a unique opportunity to view the man through exclusive interviews with Castro himself, historians, public figures and close friends, with rare footage from the Cuban State archives.

Alice Walker, Harry Belafonte, and Sydney Pollack discuss Fidel as a person, while former and current US government figures including Arthur Schlesinger, Ramsey Clark, Wayne Smith, Congressman Charles Rangel and a former CIA agent offer political and historical perspectives on Castro and the long-standing US embargo against Cuba. Family members and close friends, including Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, offer a window into the rarely seen personal life of Fidel.

Bravo’s camera captures Fidel Castro swimming with bodyguards, visiting his childhood home and school, joking with Nelson Mandela, Ted Turner and Muhammad Ali, meeting Elian Gonzalez, and celebrating his birthday with members of the Buena Vista Social Club. Juxtaposing the personal anecdotal with history of the Cuban revolution and the fight to survive the post-Soviet period, FIDEL tells a previously untold story and presents a new view of this compelling figure.



Friday Sept. 16th, 2011 at 7pm-10pm
Casa de Las Americas 182 E. 111th St.
(Btwn. Lexington and Third Ave.)
Take the 6 train to E. 110th St.
Suggested donation: $5 (No one will be turned away)