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· I International Colloquium "Emilio Bacardí" In Memoriam
· Handicrafts International Fair. FIART
· Humour Biennial
· II International Encounter of Guitar Professors and Students. II International Contest for Guitar Students
· "La Huella de España" ("Spain’s Imprint") Festival, 1999
· International Disc Fair "CubaDisco"
· II Encounter on Modern and Contemporary Dance Schools. I Contest of Students of Modern and Contemporary Dance Schools
· I International Congress "Culture and Development"
· Concert Bands International Festival
· "Boleros de Oro" ("Golden Boleros") International Festival
· Theatre and Dance Elsinor Festival
· VII Iberoamerican Encounter - Festival of Décima and XXXII Cucalambe In Memorian
· III International Colloquium "Hemingway’99"
· Caribbean Culture Festival
· Popular Music International Festival "Benny Moré"
· International Festival "Matamoros Son"
· Havana International Festival of Theatre
· Contemporary Music Havana Festival
· IV International Congress "Cultural Heritage: Context and Preservation"
· Cubanship Fiesta
· Ibero American Culture Fiesta
· San Cristóbal de La Habana Festivities, Habaneras Festival, Musicuba
· "Wemilere", African Roots Festival
· Choir Intenational Festival
· Fiesta a la Guantanamera. (Guantanamera Style Fiesta)
· Third Millennium: Integration or Hegemony?
· International Colloquium "La Edad de Oro Before the New Century"

 

I INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM "EMILIO BACARDÍ" IN MEMORIAM

Date: February 10th to 12th.
Frequency: Quinquennial
Sponsors: Provincial Heritage Center; Cultural Direction of Santiago de Cuba Province; and National Council of Heritage.
Site: Santiago de Cuba.

Event which takes place on occasion of Emilio Bacardí Museum Centennial. It is dedicated to museologists, specialists on heritage preservation and restoration. 5

HANDICRAFTS INTERNATIONAL FAIR. FIART

Date: February 14th to 23rd.
Frequency: Biennial.
Sponsors: Cuban Fund of Cultural Assets; National Council of Visual Arts; UNESCO Cuban Commission and Office; Chamber of commerce of the Republic of Cuba.
Site: Havana City

FIART is a handicraft trade fair where Cuban and foreign handicraftsmen take part. Artistic creation workshops, collateral expositions will be made. Prizes for the Best Cuban Work and for the Best International, will be granted, as well as another International Award, conferred by the UNESCO. 5

HUMOUR BIENNIAL

Date: March 28th to April 4th.
Frequency: Biennial
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of Havana Province. Association of Cuban Journalists (UPEC), Association of Cuban Humourists and Ibero American Association of Humourists.
Site: San Antonio de los Baños.- Havana Province.

Competitive event which convokes, national and internationally, to graphic humor makers. Workshops on humour, lectures and collateral expositions take place. 5

II INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER OF GUITAR PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS. II INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR GUITAR STUDENTS

Date: April - May, l999.
Frequency: Biennial
Sponsors: National center of Arts Schools and "José White" Music Conservatory from Camagüey.
Site: Camagüey

Suitable event for demonstrating the development reached by Cuban guitar playing on its teaching field, and to interchange experiences with professors and students from participant countries. Besides, workshops, lectures, and magistral classes on guitar teaching technique and methodology will be delivered. 5

"LA HUELLA DE ESPAÑA" ("SPAIN’S IMPRINT") FESTIVAL, 1999

Date : April
Frequency : Yearly
Sponsors : Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba; Gran Teatro de La Habana (Havana Grand Theatre).

Hispanic roots on Cuban culture are reflected on this event, from a great fiesta, in which music, dance and theatre groups and soloists from Cuba and Spain take part. 5

INTERNATIONAL DISC FAIR "CUBADISCO"

Date: April 30th to March 4th.
Frequency: Yearly
Sponsors: Cuban Institute of Music; Cuban discographic houses and foreign discographic houses registered in Cuba
Site: Havana City

Expo-selling of works produced by Cuban and foreign discographic houses. Performances by the most outstanding Cuban musical groups are included . Besides, a colloquium on discographic production and its commercialization will also take place. 5

II ENCOUNTER ON MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE SCHOOLS. I CONTEST OF STUDENTS OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE SCHOOLS

Date: June 1999.
Frequency: Biennial.
Sponsors: National Center of Art Schools and National School of Dance.
Site: Havana City.

Experiences interchange and widening of knowledge on modern and contemporary dance expressions from several world regions. Besides the contest, workshops, lectures and magistral classes on contemporary and modern dance will be hold. 5

I INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS "CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT"

Date: June 7th to 11th.
Frequency: Biennial
Sponsor: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba.
Site: Havana City.

Its aims are: to ease experience interchange on practical and theoretical aspects concerning to culture and development relation, and on cultural development contemporary projection; to reach the right evaluation of interaction between culture and development; to consolidate work within the Ibero American network and spread it towards the international scope; to propitiate international cultural cooperation through its insertion within international entities and organisms programs; to appreciate and contrast advancements reached from an effective dialogue culture and circulation of ideas which spread human existence integrally developed . So this event calls for researchers, artists, creators, professors, specialists and groups, institutions and entities involved on cultural processes. 5

CONCERT BANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

Date: June 8th to 13th
Frequency: Biennial.
Sponsors: Cuban Institute of Music, National Center of Concert Music, Provincial Center of Music and Cultural Direction of Granma Province .
Site: Bayamo: Granma.

Event which retakes an old tradition and makes possible the professional interchange of Cuban and foreign concert bands. 5

"BOLEROS DE ORO" ("GOLDEN BOLEROS") INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

Date: June 17th to 27th.
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsor: UNEAC .
Site: Havana City.

Dedicated to Venezuela. Outstanding interpreters, composers, researchers and lovers of this musical genre. The most prestigious bolero singers from Cuba, Latin America and the Caribbean will be on the stage of "Mella", "Nacional" and "América" Theaters. 5

THEATRE AND DANCE ELSINOR FESTIVAL

Date: June 25th to July 5th .
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsors: High Studies Art Institute, Performing Arts Faculty .
Site: Havana City

"Elsinor" presents the diploma works from Performing Arts Faculty, which also takes place in the High Studies Art Faculty as well as in the main city theaters. It calls for those interested on produce their artistic, research, and teaching proposals on theatre and dance arts.

Inscription Fee : U$D 25.00 (general) / U$D 50.00 (workshop included). 5

VII IBEROAMERICAN ENCOUNTER - FESTIVAL OF DÉCIMA AND XXXII CUCALAMBE IN MEMORIAN

Date: June 26th to July 1st.
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of las Tunas Province. Ibero American House of Décima, and National Center of Community Culture.
Site: Las Tunas.

Great Fiesta of traditional Cuban country music. Literary meetings, galas, improvising singers and typical country guateques. 5

III INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM "HEMINGWAY’99"

Date: July 4th to 9th
Frequency: Biennial.
Sponsors: Ernest Hemingway Museum, Heritage Provincial Center, Cultural Direction of Havana City Province.
Site: Havana City.

The Museum of Finca Vigía, Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban home, convokes to the III International Colloquium "Hemingway’99", within his centennial birth year. The leading theme will be : "Ernest Hemingway: Man of his time, presence and transcendence at the end of the millennium". 5

CARIBBEAN CULTURE FESTIVAL

Date: July 3rd to 9th.
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of Santiago de Cuba Province, Caribbean House.
Site: Santiago de Cuba.

Also known as "Fiesta del Fuego", this event gathers all cultural manifestations and the scientific and literary ongoing of the peoples from the region. 5

POPULAR MUSIC INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL "BENNY MORÉ"

Date: August 21st to 24th .
Frequency: Biennial.
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of Cienfuegos Province and Cienfuegos Provincial Music Center.
Site: Cienfuegos.

Panorama of the Cuban popular music and its most outstanding interpreters. Cuban and foreign orchestras takes part and the figure of Benny More is raised. 5

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL "MATAMOROS SON"

Date: September
Frequency: Biennial
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of Santiago de Cuba Province, Santiago de Cuba Provincial Music Center, Cuban Institute of Music.
Site: Santiago de Cuba

Event to promote the values and roots on one of the most genuine expression of Cuban music: the son, its influence on rhythms that derive from it, as well as its transcendence on foreign lands. The present-day best orchestras, as well as traditional groups take part in it. 5

HAVANA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THEATRE

Date: September l9th to 28th .
Frequency: Biennial
Sponsors: National Council of Performing Arts.
Site: Havana City.

Created in 1980, the Havana Theatre Festival constitutes the most important encounter of Cuban stage including theater trends and expressions which come to the capital of the country from different regions of the world. Because of the stage wideness and diversity that integrate the international performances, composed by dramatic, lyrical and musical, street theatre, dance theatre and contemporary dance, as well as for its special events dedicated to theoretical and critical reflection , our Festival is renowned as one of the most prestigious international early fall events of our region. 5

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC HAVANA FESTIVAL

Date: October 1st to 9th .
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsor: UNEAC.
Site: UNEAC.

Absolute premieres, as well as multimedia shows, performances of outstanding soloists, chamber ensembles, choral groups and orchestras, Cuban and foreign, will be held at the National Theater of Cuba, Havana Grand Theater, Lesser Basilic of San Francisco de Asis, and other important concert halls. 5

IV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS "CULTURAL HERITAGE: CONTEXT AND PRESERVATION"

Date: October 13th to 20th
Frequency: Biennial
Sponsors: CENCREM, UNESCO Chair and National Council of Cultural Heritage.

This event will be developed on working commissions dealing with conservation and preservation of furniture and real estate heritage. Natural heritage and environment themes will also be developed. Architects, restorers, museologists, and specialists dedicated to safeguard Cuba’s cultural and natural heritage will take part on it. Professional interchange will be made by lectures and posters round tables and conferences. Courses and workshops will also be delivered. 5

CUBANSHIP FIESTA

Date: October 14th - 17th.
Frequency: Yearly
Sponsors: House of Cuban Nationality and Cultural Direction of Granma Province.
Site: Granma.

This Fiesta contributes to the restless search of the Cuban nationality roots and its historical ongoing by cultural activities from all artistic performances, besides theoretical-researching events.

Registration Fee: Nationality Crucible: U$D 40.00

Literary Colloquium : U$D 20.00. 5

IBERO AMERICAN CULTURE FIESTA

Date: October 24th to November 10th.
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of Holguín Province and Ibero America House.
Site: Holguín.

Concerts, expositions, workshops and symposia aimed to retrieve an promote Spanish roots and backgrounds of our culture. 5

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA FESTIVITIES, HABANERAS FESTIVAL, MUSICUBA

Date: November, 1999.
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of Havana City Province.
Site: Havana Site.

This event celebrates each and every anniversary of San Cristobal de La Habana Village, presenting some of its cultural values. 5

"WEMILERE", AFRICAN ROOTS FESTIVAL

Date: November 22nd to 28th.
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of Havana City Province. "Fernando Ortíz" Foundation and Cultural Direction of Guanabacoa Municipality.
Site: Guanabacoa, Havana City.

Competitive event which promotes the representative folkloric African traditions of the territory. Theoretical events and magistral classes. "Wemilere" takes place in Guanabacoa institutions, neighborhoods and parks. 5

CHOIR INTENATIONAL FESTIVAL

Date: November 29th to December 6th.
Frequency: Biennial.
Sponsors: Cuban Institute of Music, Cultural Direction of Santiago de Cuba Province and Provincial Center of Music.
Site: Santiago de Cuba.

The aim of this event is to preserve the choir tradition of the Eastern region of Cuba and stimulate choir music creation. It offers to the visitors the highest quality reached by the Cuban choirs. The event includes concerts, choir workshops choir rounds, visits to the Santiago Orfeón House, among other activities. 5

FIESTA A LA GUANTANAMERA. (GUANTANAMERA STYLE FIESTA)

Date: December 14th to 18th.
Frequency: Yearly.
Sponsors: Cultural Direction of Guantanamo Province and Provincial Centers.
Site: Guantánamo.

Colloquium : "From Where the Sun Rises", whose thematics are related to religious syncretism, workshops, concerts, galas, conferences, tour along the historical center of Guantánamo, visit to the ruins of the French coffee plantations and to the Stone Zoo. 5

THIRD MILLENNIUM: INTEGRATION OR HEGEMONY?

The Center of Studies about Martí, under the auspices of prestigious institutions, convokes to the International Colloquy "Third Millennium: Integration or Hegemony?" that will be held in Havana, September 30th through October 2nd of 1999, on the occasion of the 110 anniversary of the First Panamerican Conference, and of the José Martí calling to achieve definitely the Latin American independence and the equilibrium of the world. From the wide view of the most universal Cuban, a multi-dimensional debate about the opportunities and challenges of the integrating processes planned since the XIX century, which are in process and the created facing the Third Millennium. Outstanding sociologists, historians, economists, philosophers, jurists, politicians and specialists of the most diverse spheres of culture, will exchange reflections in topics like:

- Panamericanism from Martí-like and historical points of view:

- Integration and developemnt; Cultural identity and globalization; Autodetermination and New World Order.

Scientific Secretary: Dr. Rolando González Patricio. 5

INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM "LA EDAD DE ORO BEFORE THE NEW CENTURY"

On the occasion of commemorating the 110 Anniversary of the first apparition of La Edad de Oro magazine in the summer of 1999, the Center of Studies about Martí, under the auspices of prestigious institutions, convokes to the International Colloquy "La Edad de Oro before de New Century", that will be held in Havana in July 20th through 22nd of 1999, in order to analyzing and reevaluating this project on Martí at the break of the new century, and valuing the present literary production for children and young people, when the fundamental messages of dignity, liberty, tenderness and education of that magazine are still in force.

The colloquy will consist on the presentation of reports, as well as the development of lectures, round tables and other activities. The topics will be about the own values and characteristics of La Edad de Oro and its reception for over a century, making emphasis in its location within the literature for children and young people of his time and the present time, with the problems, specifications and perspectives before the arrival of a new century.

Scientific Secretary: Lic. Salvador Arias García. 5

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