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Audre Lorde. The Berlin Years 1984-1992,
de la realizadora alemana Dagmar Schultz, presentado en la UNEAC,
21/12/13. La feminista afronorteamericana en Cuba. Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba, at Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV), Plaza Vieja, Havana, Cuba Aug 3 to 31, 2013.
Join us in supporting the first Afro-Colombian
National Congress, August 23-28th, 2013 - 20 year anniversary of Law 70,
5/21/13. See also
Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan-African Analysis, Joseph F. Jordan, 2006
with 2013 update, PDF Also, our
AfroColombian News page.
Cameroonian activists, some related to
Cuban Abakwa, in Greepeace panel at National Press Club, 2/19/13.
Washington, DC 1912. VOCES PARA UN SILENCIO, UN GRITO DE ALERTA PARA EL SIGLO XXI, por Roberto Zurbano Torres, 4 de diciembre, 2012.
XVII Taller Científico de Antropología Social y
Cultural Afroamericana y VI Encuentro de Oralidad “Festival
Afropalabra” Alexis Esquivel: exposición "Los próximos héroes", La Lisa, Albacete, España, del 19/10/12 al 30/9/13 “Calabar Mgbè” Revista
Internacional
27-09-2012 (No. 8) PDF. Primer curso postgrado de la cultura Ékpè
africana en Cuba “Calabar Mgbe”, Revista
Internacional, 28-07-2012 (No. 7): Entrega de un Nkomo Calabarí a
los Abakuá de Cuba.7/12 El Partido Independiente de Color como Proyecto Archivístico, Bárbara Danzie León, Revista Cubana de Archivística, No. 16 - 17, 2008 - 2009, p 126 Old Calabar Rediscovered, Nkparom C. Ejituwu, Multi-Disciplinary Approach to African History, University of Port Harcourt Press, Nigeria 1998, PDF With note by Victor Manfredi, 5/16/12/ Reseña sobre el Coloquio de Música y Poesía Nicolás Guillén -- el tema del Partido de los Independientes de Color, Lutgarda Márquez Guillén, 4/12 Paz Con Rumba: fundación del espacio cultural Rincón de la Rumba, Nuevo Vedado, 3/3/2012. Un reportaje cultural de Manuel Rivero Glean Afrocubanas, historia, pensamiento y prácticas culturales,
"Mis Razones", por Gloria Rolando, 15/2/12 José Antonio Aponte y Ubarra and the 1812 Massacre: The Bicentennial, 1/2012
Tremenda discusion alrededor del libro "La conspiración de los iguales,"
del historiador cubano Rolando Rodríguez
sobre 1912. 1/15/2012. Researchers argue over book on 1912 by
Rolando Rodríguez, 1/5/2012 Afrocubanas - historia, pensamiento y prácticas culturales, Compiladoras: Daisy Rubiera Castillo e Inés María Martiatu Terry, 2011 Quintin Banderas, en Doce Muertes Famosas - , Manuel Cuellar Vizcaino, 1957, PDF Reportaje Cultural, 140 años de la hombrada abakuá del 27 de noviembre, 27/11/2011, Prof Manuel Rivero Glean Pedro Ivonnet ¿héroe o villano? Consideraciones en torno a un centenario cercano, de Lic. Raúl Ramos Cárdenas, 11/11
Book presentation: La Cultura Rastafari en Cuba by
Samuel Furé Davis to take place Sat. Aug 27, 2011 at 1pm at the Central
Park in Havana, at the Book Festival En el Centenario de Brindis de Salas por Lic. Raúl Ramos Cárdenas, sobre la vida del genial violinista quien fue una de las más excelsas personalidades negras de Cuba. 7/11 Alexis Esquivel: Exposicion 'El Fin de la Historia', Salamanca, España, 30/6/11. El retorno de la pintura de historia. Boletín Imagen Afrohispana 3, 2011, 5/2011 La voz mas popular de la radio cubana en primer plano: Eduardo Rosillo. El trailer y otros extras del nuevo documental “Rosillo, gracias a la radio” de Tony Romero. Eugene Godfried places Eduardo Rosillo in Cuba's cultural struggles
over the importance of its African heritage:
Cuban Popular Music: Renewal From Above, 9/04 'Queloides': Artists Explore Racism in Cuba 6/14/2011 The Root: by Alejandro de la Fuente, with video of the exhibit. Enkiko Erufie Erufie: Drawings by Jose Orbein. Opening Night: June 3, 2011, Arte Puro at Deauville Beach Resort, Miami. These drawings have their inspiration in Abakwa themes. "Calabar Mgbe", Revista
Internacional, No 3, 4, 5 & 6: sobre las relaciones entre los Ékpè de
Calabar, Nigeria, y los Abakuá de Cuba, 2011 Documental histórico sobre problema racial en Cuba, CubaNow, 8/16/10 Gloria Rolando y el documental 1912, su exito en Cuba.
"Queloides" Catalog 1/6/2011 Matress Factory Shop
Orlando Hernández, Cuban art critic, curates "Without Masks," first Cuban art show in South Africa with 26 artists and 80 works on Cuba's African Heritage. 23 May - 29 August 2010. Press reports. Dos Boletínes Express de Cultura Afrohispana, 6/10: 1) Trailer del nuevo documental "Afran, rostros en la memoria" y 2) Autores afrohispanos con la infancia Gloria Rolando's new films, 1912: Breaking the Silence/1912, Voces para un Silencio, premiered in Havana, March 19, 2010. She toured the US in April while Voces para un Silencio aired on Mesa Redonda in Cuba. During her tour, a video was made of her talk at the Stone Cultural Center at UNC. XIth International Conference on African and Afro- American Cultures, Santiago de Cuba, 4/2010 XI Conferencia Internacional Cultura Africana y Afroamericana, Santiago de Cuba, 4/2010 Segunda Conferencia de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos, 3/2010, Republica Dominicana Voice of the Leopard: Reviewed by Jill Salmons, Published on H-AfrArts, 1/2010 "As one Cross River chief commented recently: "Cuba has shown us that what we believed in is alive and applicable today to solve problems. We are ever so happy and grateful to the Cuban Abakua for bringing us back to our senses. Clearly the message is 'Hey, you did it, we have it, it worked for us, we don't see why it won't work for you.' So we are going to embrace this resurgence" Letra del Año - Proyecto Orunmila, based in Regla, Cuba, has the largest collection of these annual Ifa readings anywhere. Check out some great video clips at
esquinarumbera.blogspot.com, includes Los Muñequitos, Celeste Mendoza,
Afro-Cuba de Matanzas, others. AfroCubaWeb Home Page
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Debajo del Laurel: A Celebration
for Changó, 12/14/13, New York. Marisol Blanco, Yomaira Mella,
Ayelouwa Taylor
in a performance art piece by Jadele that integrates AfroCuban palo,
Arará, rumba and orisha into a musical, dancefilled show questioning
silences around violence in the legacy and memory of Afrodescendants in
our hemisphere. VI Edición del Festival Olorum, Camaguey: promover, difundir, y divulgar el arte músico-danzario cubano, de raíces africanas, como expresión valedera dentro de la cultura popular tradicional y como unidad vinculante con el pueblo que la trasmite, 11/9/13 - 15/9/13
VIII Bienal de Oralidad y IX Simposio
Teorico, Santiago de Cuba, 8 al 12 de septiembre del 2013 - de
los patakies al hip hop.
Isaac Delgado in free concert,
Boston, MA Thurs July 18th at noon on the Boston Commons.
Travel to Cuba June 15 with Simunye and
Fund for Reconciliation. Common Ground. Simunye is Zulu for "we
are one". 5/8/13 Film Screening and Forum. From Cuba to Kuba: Che Guevara and the Awakening of an Internationalist Movement. Reeves Center, Washington, DC, Friday, 5/24/13. From the Caribbean Island of Cuba to the Kongo Kingdom of Kuba in the heart of Africa. Join us to reflect on the birth of Cuba’s Internationalism through remembering Che Guevara’s work in the Congo. Followed by music & dance. CHÉVERE - Exploring Afro Cuban Culture: Clara Morera, Cepp Selgas, Jorge Valdés, Bernardo Navarro. Special performance by Afro-Cuban drummers and singers. Thursday, May 16, 6-8pm. Multicultural Arts Center, 41 2nd St. Cambridge, MA. Produced by Latin Art Space and the Multicultural Arts Center. AfricAméricas Week in Pittsburgh to explore racism in Cuba, Afro-Latin culture, history and arts May 6-11, 2013 Carnegie Mellon University and Young Men and Women's African Heritage Association, Inc. co-present AfricAméricas Week. Features five black Cuban dissident activists - Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas, Manuel Cuesta Morúa, Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna, Rafael Campoamor, and the editor of Islas, Juan Antonio Alvarado. Ifa and Orisa Practices, Thurday, May 9, 6pm, Dudley Public Library, Roxbury, MA. A Lecture by Professor Tony Menelik Van Der Meer, UMass Boston: the origins of Yoruba spiritual practices in Africa and its development in the Americas. The main focus will be on the practice of Ifa, Orisa, and Ancestor worship in Cuba and the United States. The Symbolism of Race in Cuba: Afro-Cuba An anthology of Cuban writing on race, politics, and culture, Pedro Perez-Sarduy, University of Miami, Africana Studies, CAS Gallery, Sunday April 28, 2013, 5:30pm Film director Gloria Rolando presents in Miami at Liberi Mapou in Little Haiti, Tuesday 4/16 at 6pm. Film director Gloria Rolando presents at Stanford University in California at the Visualizing the Caribbean colloquium, 4/11-4/12. Gloria Rolando to present in Palm Coast, Florida at the African American Cultural Society on April 7, 2013. Cinnamon Traveler Heritage Trust presents Gloria Rolando at the Herstory Independent Film Festival featuring the U.S. premiere of all three chapters of 1912: Voces para un Silencio - 1912: Breaking the Silence, Atlanta, GA, March 20 - April 6, 2013. "What's Left of Cuba? Culture, Politics, and Civil Society" 2/3/2013 Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at NYU: "This series (Jan - May) addresses where Cuba is now in the geopolitical imaginary that once heralded Cuba as the exemplar of radical left projects in Latin America. In recent years, Cuban culture has challenged the projects of the revolution and has recast the cold war frames of embargo, exile, and exceptionalism." Afrocubanas invita: Taller Género y “raza” 30/1/2013 Negra Cubana: El Grupo de Mujeres Afrocubanas y ARA-Cuba les invitan al Taller Género y “raza” que se llevará a efecto el día 30 de enero ...impartido por la socióloga y Máster en estudios de Género, Yulexis Almeida, profesora de la carrera de Sociología de la Universidad de La Habana. Elio Rodriguez: Pumps Project."Selva en las Paredes." Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Las Cigarreras. Alicante, Spain, desde el 21/12/12 Reggaeton vs. Nueva Trova 12/21/2012 Havana Times: "... in Ciego de Avila Province, where people were supposed to celebrate a concert marking the 45th anniversary of Nueva Trova. The young trova singers who were featured there got a nasty surprise when they saw the supposed audience — composed of younger people and teens — force them to cancel the concert with their repeated and upsetting manner of asking that those trova tunes be replaced by the now omniscient rhythms of reggaeton."
Desde la Ceiba, Cofradía de la
Negritud, 23 de noviembre, 2012 Sandy´s trail of death and destruction, 11/26/12 An appeal for aid, Caribbean American Children Foundation, 501c3. Alberto Jones. La senda de destrucción y muerte de Sandy, 26 de Octubre del año 2012. Un llamamiento de ayuda, Fundación Caribeña Americana de los Niños, 501c3. Alberto Jones. Pedro Ivonnet: pasión y muerte de un protestante del 12, Lic. Raúl Ramos Cárdenas, Investigador del Archivo Nacional de Cuba, 11/12 ¿Qué Volá con el Reguetón? Desde la Ceiba, 1/10/12 Los Independientes de Color, a cien años de la masacre por Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera, Desde la Ceiba, 26/9/12 Homenaje a Rogelio Martínez Furé: 22 de septiembre 2012, Matanzas, Cuba, frente a la casa donde nació: galeria de fotos, photo gallery Entrevista con Rogelio Martínez Furé: Siempre puente, nunca frontera 9/22/2012 Juventud Rebelde Descargas: ritual y fiestas de la palabra, 8/25/12, Rogelio Martínez Furé
Cimarrón de palabras, "descargas",
poesia de Rogelio Martínez Furé, 2010, (PDF, 1.7MB). Introduccion de
Inés María Martiatu Terry: El aché de la palabra. Born in Cuba of a Cuban father and a Jamaican mother, Mortimo Planno was a founder of Rastafarianism and a teacher of Bob Marley. He is the author of THE EARTH MOST STRANGEST MAN - THE RASTAFARIAN. 8/12 Cuban Filmmakers at the Flaherty, Part 1: Gloria Rolando Three filmmakers participate in weeklong international documentary seminar 7/10/2012 Cuban Art News. See also Gloria Rolando. Report on the 2012 Násàkó Festival, ties with Cubans approved, 6/12 Informe sobre el Festival Násàkó, 6/12, vínculos con los cubanos aprobados. The founders of Ékpè/Abakuá gather / Los fundadores de Ékpè/Abakuá se reunen. The Násàkó Family's Kebulu Felix Lenya on Africa - Cuba ties, May 2, 2012. Kebulu Felix Lenya, de la familia Násàkó, sobre las relaciones Africa - Cuba, 2 de mayo, 2012
PazConRumba,
30/6/12, consagrada a Tata Güines, Plaza, la Habana Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City by Ivor L. Miller, back in print, 5/12
Bongo Ita : leopard
society music and language in West Africa, Western Cuba, and New York City
1/15/2012 African and Black Diaspora, by
Ivor Miller History of African responses to Abakuá, 1/12 Book Launch, Nigerian Edition of Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, 7/9/11: raising consciousness around the Abakuá and Ékpè Algunas notas sobre raza y
narrativas femeninas. El que más mira menos ve 8/7/2011 Negra Cubana Hablando con Evaristo Estenoz, 6/2011, Raúl Ramos Cárdenas hace el resacate de una entrevista con Evaristo Estenoz, el presidente y fundador del Partido Independiente de Color, en 1910. IV Coloquio sobre religiones afroamericanas - Dedicado a la influencia cultural de las sociedades EKPE de Nigeria, en la conformación de las sociedades religiosas de socorro y ayuda mutuas Abakuá en Cuba, 25 -27 Mayo 2011 - La Habana (Cuba) 15 Taller de Antropologia Social y Cultural Afroamericana Opus Habana, 1-7-2011 Al rescate de figuras afrodescendientes 5/21/2011 IPS: "Activistas vinculados al estudio y promoción de los temas raciales en Cuba rindieron homenaje a varias figuras históricas afrodescendientes." Dos libros nuevos de Frank Cabrera, 2011: 1) Ilé Tüntun, la Nueva Tierra Sagrada, 256 Oddunes de Ifá 2) Ilé Tüntun, Tierra Nueva, de Frank Cabrera, 2011 Reportaje Cultural 20/02/11 - II Taller Municipal de Tradición e Identidad, Santa Isabel de Las Lajas, Cienfuegos, 18 y 19 de febrero de 2011 por el Profesor Manuel Rivero Glean Prof Manuel Rivero Glean: Reportaje Cultural: Casa de Africa, 5 - 9 de enero de 2011, 15 Taller de Antropologia Social y Cultural Afroamericana
Boletínes Imagen Afrohispana
Express Chief Eteng TaTa Ikpi, Iyamba Ekpe, Nigeria, reviews Ivor Miller's Voice of the Leopard on Calabar - Cuba, 11/25/2010 La poeta Georgina Herrera nos da dos ensayos: Gritar un poco: 1912, Voces para un silencio, La Habana, 11/8/2010, y Las amarras de la memoria, 20/2/2010New reviews of Voice of the Leopard on the relationship between Ékpè in Calabar and the Abakuá in Cuba, 9/10. Includes review by the well known Nigerian historian, Dr. Toyin Falola. He came, he saw, he savoured. Daily Sun, Nigeria, 7/15/10: the story of Marcos David Ostrander Moreford, omo Olokun of Nigerian, Cuban, English and Panamanian ancestry who returns to Calabar to seek his roots. His Cuban great-grandfather was initiated into Abakuá and participated in the struggle against Spain. Reseñas de libros: Esteban Morales Domínguez. 2007. Desafíos de la problemática racial en Cuba. Por Pedro Pérez Sarduy, 7/1/2010 Cuba Calabar Radio - web radio from Calabar, Nigeria on the links between the Cuban Abakwá and the Ékpè in Calabar. Boletínes Express de Cultura Afrohispana, numeros 4, 5, 6, 7, y 8 de 2010: I Convención Nacional Juventud Negra, Madrid, Comedia de situacion en Guinee Equatorial. Trabajos de Tony Romero y su equipo. Reportaje Cultural: XI Conferencia Internacional Cultura Africana y Afroamericana, Santiago de Cuba, 12 al 16 de abril de 2010, del professor Manuel Rivero, Escuela de Altos Estudios de Hotelería y Turismo, Miembro del Comité Cubano de la Ruta Internacional del Esclavo de la UNESCO Sample from Cordones-Cook's video Nancy Morejón: Paisajes célebres / Nancy Morejón: Famous Landscapes, 2010 Queloides: la cicatriz renovada del racismo en Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente, 4/10 Dr. Ivor Miller is interviewed on Cross River TV, 4/14/10: Dr. Miller talks with Mrs Offiong Ani Offiong about Ekpé traditions preserved in Cuba for over 200 years and the way in which these traditions have been faithfully preserved by Abakua members from lodges in Havana and Matanzas. Reportaje Cultural: Taller Municipal de Tradición e Identidad, Benny Moré y el Cabildo Congo San Antonio,, Santa Isabel de Las Lajas, Cienfuegos, febrero de 2010, del professor Manuel Rivero, Escuela de Altos Estudios de Hotelería y Turismo, Miembro del Comité Cubano de la Ruta Internacional del Esclavo de la UNESCO Author and poet Pedro Pérez-Sarduy just completed a tour in the US, Mar-Apr 2010. The focus was on race & identity in Cuba and on AfroCubans in the arts. Fresh from Princeton, he presented at Harvard on March 30 & 31st, 2010, where he launched the English version of the Maids of Havana. Gordillo page featuring Kongo Cruzado: Cuban Lukumi and Kongo Identities in the Art of Francisco "Gordillo" Arredondo by Ivor Miller, 9/16/2006. AfroCubaWeb is holding 11 of his paintings for sale, see his Gallery.
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