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Cuba has just lived one of the largest ever cultural visits from the UK of the world famous Royal Ballet from London’s Royal Opera House, with its company of international stars from over 19 different countries including Cuba’s Carlos Acosta. They offered 5 performances in Havana last week, and both audience and critics coincide in that this is "the cultural event of this year" :
Tue 14 July -programa concierto (mixed bill) Gran Teatro 8.30pm
Wed 15 July - programa concierto (mixed bill) Gran Teatro 8.30 pm
Thu 16 July programa concierto (mixed bill) Gran Teatro 8.30pm
(in honor of prima bailerina absoluta Alicia Alonso)
Fri 17 July Manon- full length ballet Karl Marx Teatro 9pm
Sat 18 July Manon – full length ballet Karl Marx Teatro 9pm
As part of our regional project Incubator, Adrián Monzon, young Cuban musical entrepeneur represented Latin America alongside Fabrício Nobre from Brazil, in the finals of the International Young Music Entrepreneur Award (IYME) run by the British Council.
The IYME award, now in its fourth year, focuses on emerging markets. Nine diverse and accomplished finalists, representing Brazil, China, Cuba, India, Kenya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Nigeria and Poland were selected by British Council offices around the world to participate in the programme. The finalists travelled to the UK to take part in a tour of the UK music industry, including meeting with 4AD Records, Ninja Tune, Blueprint Studios, and SJM Concerts. Their tour culminated at the Great Escape in Brighton where this year's IYME winner, Vijar Nair from India, was announced.
Adrián is delighted to have had the opportunity to live this experience, and is now back to Cuba full of new ideas and energy. "Being part of this tour was indeed an award". Congratulations!
Visit INCUBATOR pages to know about our Latin American regional music project!
This international group show as part of the 10th Habana Bienal was the first time for many of these artists to show in Cuba. They came together to explore the theme of the Bienal, ‘integration and resistance in the global era’ through their own ‘tales from the new world’ in photographs, installations, and sculpture. Tales of the "New World” is not Las Américas of the colonisers, but the World that needs to be rediscovered and reinterpreted. Curated by Humberto Díaz
Artists:Gayle Chong Kwan (UK), Humberto Díaz (Cuba), Stan Douglas(Canada), Luis Gómez (Cuba), Alexander Guerra (Cuba), Lin Holland & Dave Lewis (UK), Satomi Matoba (Japan), Geoff Molyneux (UK), María Victoria Portelles (Cuba), Wilfredo Prieto (Cuba), Margaretha Schoning (Germany), Benjamin Washington (UK).
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The British Council was delighted to work with the 30th Latin American Film Festival to present a retrospective of the films of British film director Mike Leigh. Mike's films capture the tragic-comical existence of ordinary peoples ordinary lives and show that they are far from ordinary. Starting with his first film, BLEAK MOMENTS made in 1971, the tribute also included his most recent film HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. Mike Leigh visited the festival to present his films and meet other filmmakers. All films were screened at La Rampa Cinema, Havana with Spanish subtitles.
In addition, the British Council also co-presented the Anglo-Polish film PETER AND THE WOLF directed by Susie Templeton with extraordinary animation from Poland. A fantastic animated tale set to the music of the same name by Prokofiev.
Other British films in the Festival were THE FEVER (UK/2004), directed by Carlo Gabriel Nero, with Vanessa Redgrave, and COURTING CONDI (UK/USA/2008), directed by Sebastian Doggart.
 
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