Articles of National Culture Day

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Chapeando: Culture, donations and contrasts

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“We are going to win, we are going to win…” sings Nsila Cheche, starting our podcast. The cajon touch sounds with the invincible optimism of the Cuban, who in the worst moments laughs and dances, scaring away the bad omen. Well chosen musical greeting to the Day of Cuban Culture. And also the celebration of the date by artists and intellectuals, who did not go to a theater to celebrate themselves. They walk through the towns of Pinar del Río where Ian’s winds took away the roofs and the souls of many people.

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Brigade of Art Instructors comes of age in Cuba

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Eighteen years after its foundation, the José Martí Brigade of Art Instructors celebrates its coming of age with the display of a broad agenda of activities from all aesthetic expressions. Just on the date marked on the island for the Day of Cuban Culture (October 20), the brigade stands out as a space for the dissemination and defense of traditions, popular practices and artistic manifestations, which -by its hand- reach the communities most remote of the largest of the Antilles.