Lázaro Ros: EL ASALTO DE LOS ORISHAS, 12/02

The War on Culture: restrictions devastate cultural events in the US that rely on travel from Cuba, 10/02

The War on Culture: restrictions devastate cultural events in the US that rely on travel from Cuba, 10/02

Nicolás Guillén y el Modernismo Hispanoamericano by Keith Ellis, 10/02

El Tratamiento del Tema Negro en el Rap, Tomás Fernández Robaina, 8/02

Lazaro Ros gets Fernando Ortiz prize, wide coverage in Cuban press, 7/16/02

La Timbala (UK) offers  residency with a famous Havana comparsa (carnival group) - Los Componedores de Batea, 7/02

Recent Trotter Group coverage of Gloria Rolando and her film on 1912, 6/02

NKAME PARA JUAN FORMELL por Rogelio Martínez Furé, 5/19/02

Artist Elio Rodríguez Valdés launches his excellent  web site, 4/02. Show opens in Buffalo 5/3.

Con Natalia Bolívar, 2002

Con Natalia Bolívar, 2002

Support the artists: get  Pello's sheet music for bata, Flor Amalia's script, and Gloria Rolando's films. This is legal trade that benefits these artists.

Jane Bunnett's film Spirit of Havana shown on Canadian TV, 11/8/01

Bette Wanderman releases A Cuban Legend, her documentary on famed muralist Salvador Gonzalez of Havana, 11/01

Support the artists: get  Pello's sheet music for bata, Flor Amalia's script, and Gloria Rolando's films. This is legal trade that benefits these artists.

Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Música (CIDMUC) has a great atlas of Cuban music: Atlas de los Instrumentos Folklórico-Popular de Cuba

Víctor Dreke, Che's second in command in the Congo, is the new author of From the Escambray to the Congo: In the Whirlwind of the  Cuban Revolution. 11/02

El Nieto del General, 11/1/02, Radio Habana:  Mambi leader Quintin Banderas' grandson interviewed in Paris

Kiba Kreyol '02 - Haitian culture in Cuba, 10/02 Schedule now available.

III Workshop Rumba and Conga  "Alfonso Iyaé 2002," UNEAC, featuring "El Ambia," 12/02

New Evidence for the African Diaspora in the Cuban Abakua Society,  Lecture - presentation by Dr. Ivor Miller and Omí Odara, Amherst, 4/19/02

Afropop Worldwide Study Tour of Cuban Music:The Havana-Oriente Express, 1/03

Lisa Brock interviewed on BET, Lead Story, Sunday, 5/26. Lisa has some of her writings on the relations between African Americans and AfroCubans up on this site. Additional info on AfroCubaWeb Backgrounders

CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL
EL CENTENARIO DE NICOLAS GUILLEN, del 7 al 14 de julio, 2002, La Habana, Cuba: on the noted poet whose work was inspired by earlier generations of Africans, especially those from Oyo, Nigeria.

Gloria Rolando Documentary at UWM (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), April 26, 2002

New Evidence for the African Diaspora in the Cuban Abakua Society,  Lecture - presentation by Dr. Ivor Miller and Omí Odara, Amherst, 4/19

Pedro Pérez Sarduy launched his new novel, Las Criadas de La Habana, at the Havana Book Fair, 2/02 Will visit the US in Fall 2002.

Rogelio Martínez Furé wins National Dance Prize 2002, previously given to Alicia Alonso.

XIII Festival Internacional de Percusión "PERCUBA 2002", 4/16/02 - 4/20/02

Race and Revolution: Afro-Cubans in Cuban History, Society and the Cuban Revolution - Course offered by St Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, and Cuba, Spring Term 2002. Schedule up with many links to participants' pages.

Angel José Chappottín Valdés Ha Muerto, 11/18/01 

Judith Bettelheim's CUBAN FESTIVALS: A Century of Afro-Cuban Culture now out, with translation of Ortiz's "The Afro-Cuban Festival Day of the Kings" 11/01

Rogelio Scull, founding member of Afrocuba de Matanzas, in Texas jail. Update: due to be released 10/2001, he was looking forward to teaching and performing. He'd appreciate hearing from folks as he still has not been released and does not know why. 11/27

The poet El Ambia and Soy Todo, "I am all that" - Pedro Perez-Sarduy, 9/01

Nigerian Efiks and Cuban Abakuá re-unite in New York, 8/01

"Maraca" Valle: Un jazz cubano de flauta y relámpago, 8/01

Pedro Perez -Sarduy on the rap group Orisha: Marginalization and Representation in Afro-Cuban Hip-Hop, 8/01

Assata Shakur poster with Askia Touré's poem "Palenque Queen by Habana's Shores" now available, as are some books by Askia.