Once again, Havana is sticking to confinement because of the Covid-19 pandemic in Cuba . This has influenced the agenda of events and culture in Cuba in February to have decreased its intensity considerably. However, there are many alternatives that throughout these months have been implemented so that art and cultural life on the island survive.
Among the strategies assumed are online dissemination channels. There are many initiatives that museums and other cultural centers have developed to encourage the Cuban cultural agenda to continue its usual course.
So this month, in addition to online events, we have included those starring Cubans overseas.
We hope that you can keep connected in this way to Cuban culture , and, when normality returns, that you are encouraged to travel to the island in February with our personalized trips to Cuba , and while participating in the proposals that we show you below. Thanks for following us!
La música de las formas
Cuban art swarms everywhere, this time one of the best known representatives of contemporary Cuban art reaches the Extremadura community in Spain. We are referring to Cuban artist Glenda León , who joins the program "The Ibero-American Expression", under the curatorship of José Jiménez.
She takes part with the projectMúsica de las formas, a proposal in which she gathers pieces in which she establishes a dialogue between visual arts and sound, since music is one of her sources of inspiration.
If you are in Spain you can visit MEIAC and appreciate the subtle poetics of the artist, who cares about reflecting very intimate but at the same time universal problems of the human being.
Among the exhibited pieces are those that make up the series "Estrellas masticadas" (2015), his video "Dirigir las nubes" (2008-2017) and one you will surely fall in love with, which is "Cada sonido es una forma del tiempo”(2020), where he draws shapes and paths on the lines of a stave.
If you are interested in knowing more about what happens in contemporary Cuban art, I encourage you to consult our thematic tour The Old Havana and the visual arts where you can discover new art spaces and creators.
Cuba under the stars
The Cuban show business reaches Miami through the proposal “Cuba under the stars” . This musical theater in the style of Broadway cabaret, produced by Peter Regalado and Miguel Ferro, reaches Little Havana .
If you go to the Fair Expo Center in Miami, you can enjoy this live musical show that has twenty-four dancers, an orchestra of eighteen musicians, joined by the renowned Cuban singers Albita Rodríguez, Amaury Gutiérrez and Luis Bofill.
For approximately two hours you will be in direct contact with the music of the 60's and 70's, classic themes ranging from popular allegorical songs to original compositions performed by renowned Cuban artists from Miami are performed. .
Under the veil of a love story and the nostalgia that is generated for Cuba with this show, you can also enjoy an exquisite Cuban dinner . And if you want more, you can discover the charms of the Cuban cabarets and nightlife through our thematic city tour Havana after dark.
Bitácora de Juego by Israel Naranjo Sandoval
In the Arturo Regueiro gallery, in Pinar del Río, this exhibition of nineteen artists takes place, with the majority of 19 participating artists. they are members of UNEAC .
In addition, Art students from Academia de San Alejandro take part in the exhibition, which allows the artistic work of more established artists to coexist with younger people in the region.
Among the names that stand out are Armando Marrero, David Santa Fe, Raúl Fernández, Marcos González Yaber, Yasser Curbelo, Manuel Toste and Israel Naranjo, who worked techniques from oil on canvas, to engraving and photography.
Among others, you will enjoy the winning works: “Co.vip 19”, by Daniel Fernández Padrón and “Bitácora de juego”, by Israel Naranjo ; in addition to the piece by Juan Manuel Menéndez Mena also awarded, and that is titled “Despegue”.
After this visit to the exhibition, you have the option of discovering the westernmost part of the province through our excursion to Viñales including a horse ride through its famous tobacco fields.
Cruzada teatral
For theater lovers comes the most important community theater crusade in the country. In its 31st edition, this time online, it postpones the traditional tour of the mountainous communities to the summer months when the current situation of the pandemic improves on the island. The hosts remain from previous years: artists from Teatro Guiñol, La Barca, Carpandilla, along with musicians, dancers and painters.
The virtual theater crusade " Voces Cruzadas " has summoned groups, actors, oral narrators, puppeteers, theatrologists, journalists, photographers and researchers from the Internet.
You can access the meeting through the facebook profile of the council, where many guests from Colombia, Mexico, Peru, the United States, Argentina... will meet, as well as theater representatives from various provinces of Cuba.
In addition, the event has a theoretical space where research on the importance of the theatrical crusade for the communities will be made visible and a photographic exhibition documents the presence of the scenic groups through the Guantánamo-Baracoa theatrical crusade in previous editions.
We advise you not to miss Baracoa , since it is a place like no other. Discover its charms in our article Nature in Baracoa: five unusual adventure routes .
We now move to Camagüey following the cultural scene. On this occasion, the Casa de la Memoria is the venue for the collective exhibition " Virtudes a considerar ", which is held in the context of the VIII Visual Arts Hall for Young Creators "Gestos”. Members of the Colibrí Project participate in it, under the direction of the artist Nazario Salazar Martínez.
The curators of the exhibition appealed to the use of virtuosity and the talent of the youngest creators in the province, some of them members of the Hermanos Saíz Association .
You can see works in which the creators have been inspired by Marti's poems, resulting in a set of illustrations developed by means of various techniques.
And since you are in the province or if you dare to discover it, you can complement the visit with our horseback riding or cycling excursion to Playa Santa Lucía .
Exhibition poster
We move to the center of the island to propose the exhibition that takes place in the Casa de la Guayabera de Sancti Spíritus .
On this occasion Cuban plastic artists meet to exhibit works in different formats and techniques. It certainly enriches the visuality of the show.
Those who are in Santi Spíritus in the month of February will be able to corroborate the effervescence of the art that is grown in the center of the island. The exhibition opens on January 28 and not by chance, since it is precisely on that day that the anniversary of the Apostle of Cuba is celebrated, José Martí.
This exhibition brings together pieces from the collection of the Hermanos Saíz Association where the figure of the Cuban writer is represented.
Therefore, you will have the opportunity to appreciate the different interpretations that Cuban creators have of the image of José Martí.
Sancti Spíritus is full of charm, it is a province whose landscapes are overwhleming. A place that you can visit in any of the excursions to that province that we propose in CubaUnique. Among them: Hiking in Tope de Collantes .
Dúo D’accord
Chamber music has a specialized, minority audience; It is not an art for the general public, although, nevertheless, it has wide visibility in the cultural fabric of the island.
The conciertos online también acogen a este género musical, y especialmente llega a través del dúo “D´Accord”, dirigido por la pianista Marita Rodríguez.
At 4pm on the social networks of the Casa del Alba Cultural this meeting with chamber music will take place , an opportunity for you to delight your ears with the music of this clarinet and piano duet, founded in 2002.
You will be able to enjoy a set in which the works of Cuban authors from various periods are rescued and in particular those of the contemporary Cuban scene. And if you've been wanting more Cuban music , explore our thematic city-tour Music in Havana that will surely not disappoint you.
Ernest Hemingway. Bar Floridita. La Habana.
It is a tour that will allow you to know the particularities of its habitat. You can also come into direct contact with his personal belongings, hunting trophies and know the room where he used to write.
This museum is located in a natural environment. Here the memories of fishing and life in Cuba of the mentioned writer are exhibited.
You can also be a participant during the discussion: « Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War «. In this talk, the foray of the writer as a correspondent for the National Association Newspaper Alliance NANA in that contest will be specially addressed.
Dúo Con-trastes
Also on the internet, we find a classical music concert that will take place on February 28 at 4:00 p.m. through the Casa del Alba Cultural social networks.
Do you like classic music with a cuban twist? If so, you will love the online staging ofNuestra América, run by Zuleida Suárez, who manages Dúo Contrastes.
It is a duo of two guitarists, Zuleida Suárez and Susana Frade , both graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte . They will perform a wide self composed set.
This institution is committed to promoting Latin American and Caribbean artistic and intellectual creation and brings us attractive proposals like this to keep us culturally active in the month of February.
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba
The Ministry of Culture of Cuba has enabled its YouTube channel to stream concerts online. This way, it will be able to keep the cultural offer despite the restrictions due to the pandemic.
Periodically, you will enjoy performances by artists, duets or orchestras. These range from Cuban popular dance music, to jazz and classical music. If you want to keep up with music trends these days, your best option is to follow MINCULT channel to discover latest cuban music.
In February you will find more musical proposals streaming through facebook, the Canal Clave and other facebook accounts of related cultural institutions.
In February you will fall in love with Cuba. The month of love is a highly recommended month to discover Cuba, and why not, take a romantic getaway.
You will find pleasant temperatures, very far from the European cold, with a lower humidity than in the summer months, which is really appreciated, but this will not free you from taking sunscreen.
Cuba is an everlasting summer! The climate is very stable, and the temperatures are mild throughout the year, so you can bathe in the best beaches and cays in Cuba. Even in February, the water stays around 24º and the temperature ranges between 17 and 28º.
You won't have to deal with heavy tropical rains and humidity is usually lower, so discovering Cuba in February is a very attractive time of the year.
You can plan all kinds of activities with your couple and / or family, since you will not have to worry about whether it rains or if it is too hot. February gives you more freedom to plan holidays in Cuba at your own pace.
As you can see, to enjoy the authentic Cuba and its Cultural offer, you have a lot of options, although we are in a context marked by the “new normal”.
From our custom made travel agency CubaUnique , we suggest you don't miss any of our recommendations to travel to Cuba without complications.
We suggest some of our most popular preset routes , and, if possible, spend at least 10 days in Cuba to avoid missing the essentials, and above all, we recommend that you closely follow our suggestion of activities on the blog if you plan a cultural trip to Cuba to keep you up to date on the events you don't want to miss.
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Julienne López HernándezDegree in History of Art
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