Cultura y Cubania
- its a week-long Cuban cultural festival from 5th-10th October, and is the first Cuban cultural event to be registered as an official Black History Month event.
Monday 5th October 6.30-9pm – Festival Launch and Photographic Exhibition, Canning House
Tuesday 6th-Friday 9th October 2-6pm daily – Photographic Exhibition – ‘A Few Streets, A Few People – Pocas Calles, Pocas Peronsas’, Canning House
Tuesday 6th October 7-8.30pm – Afro-Cuban dance workshop with Ariel Rios and guests, Nueva Costa Dorada
Wednesday 7th October, 7-8.30pm – Rumba dance workshop with Ariel Rios, followed by the Cuban salsa party until late, Nueva Costa Dorada
Thursday 8th October, 6.30pm – Film screening ‘Los Hijos de Baragua ~ My Footsteps in Baragua’ introduced by Eva Tarr, Director of the London Latin American Film Festival, Canning House
Friday 9th October, 7pm – Film screening ‘Raza – Race’ followed by debate and seminar ‘The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today’ by Cuban writer and journalist Pedro Perez Sarduy, Bolivar Hall
Saturday 10th October, 6.30pm-midnight – Festival Grande Finale with the debut performance of London’s new Cuban dance company CubanaDanza, plus live music from Mestizo (Ahmed Dickinson trio), Cuban Combination, and Kid Afrika. Cuban DJ and much more!, Conway Hall
