Located in the barrio Colón, Centro Habana, a barrio with African
traditions.
"Colón Cultural is a non-for profit organization based in Havana, Cuba.
Since its founding in 2016, Colón Cultural has been operating in a Centro
Habana neighborhood called Colón. What at first was just an idea from two
friends interested in the value of art as a tool for change and social
exploration, became the house of over 50 artists from a dozen countries
that have come through the program one way or another. In recent years we
have been working with the disinterested help of many of the collaborators
who have given their support, with the simple satisfaction of knowing that
their sweat was driving an initiative to fill a space of creation for
these communities and social groups. With our actions we have managed to
attract the attention of other organizations and most importantly, we have
earned the respect of the communities and social groups with which we
work. But what we have done in recent years is not enough. 2020 has
brought new challenges for the world and also for our team. The ways of
seeing the context and of relating in society must be rethought, seeing
this crisis as a new opportunity to put our organization on an
increasingly sustainable path. For this we want to grow and strengthen our
tools and practices in a new context for the future. This time when many
of us stay at home, we have decided to leave the nostalgia of the past
before Covid-19 and start thinking about a different type of "normal" for
our future, which can help reaffirm the work we have done so far and also
increase our capacity to collaborate with the peripheral communities and
social groups with which we work, as well as to establish new connections
locally and internationally." --
hatchexperience.org/story/colon-cultural/
On August 1, 2021,
Colón Cultural held a zoom webinar in English featuring the following participants
who have a revolutionary communist perspective. They informed us that many
of the folks in the streets were revolutionaries and that they too had
been taken to police stations and beaten with batons.
Inauguración ¨Still Cuba¨. 2/26/2019 Vistar: "Una expo del artista catalán
Francesc Ruiz Abad junto a Colón Cultural. El 27 de febrero en el Solar de la
California. Crespo esquina a Colón, Centro Habana a las 5:00 pm. #expo #Cuba
#Colón #artecubano #artecatalan"
Colón Cultural: arte y comunidades periféricas 3/20/2017 Cachivache
Media: "Para impulsar el cambio, Reynier Guerra y Glenda Ferbeyre decidieron
crear la organización sin fines de lucro Colón Cultural. Junto a ellos colabora
Cecilia González, el tercer miembro de su comité organizador. Con este equipo,
que prepara cada uno de los eventos de Colón Cultural, conversé para saber un
poco más de su historia, sus actividades y sobre la reciente Residencia que
lanzaron, destinada a artistas interesados en vincularse al barrio."
Proyecto independiente Colón Cultural presenta su convocatoria de residencia 3/3/2017 Havana
Times: "Durante el tiempo que han estado activos han realizado distintos eventos
como performances, talleres para artistas cubanos, muestras de cine caribeño, de
documentales, conciertos, conferencias, etc. La nómina de esta empresa, que
pretende convertirse en organización, la constituyen además de los fundadores ya
mencionados, las filólogas Glenda Ferbeyre y Cecilia González, entre otras
personas que se desenvuelven en asuntos más técnicos."
Independent Cuban Cultural Project Offers Residency 3/3/2017 Havana
Times: "Over the last year that they’ve been active, they have held different
events such as performance art installations, workshops for Cuban artists,
Caribbean film viewings, documentary viewings, concerts, conferences, etc. The
initiative, which wants to become an organization, in addition to its
aforementioned founders, is also made up of linguists Glenda Ferbeyre and
Cecilia Gonzalez, among other people who have more technical roles."
