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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
NOUS is hosting the Alternative Initiatives Cuba conference to be held at the Royal Institute of British Architects (66 Portland Place, London) on October 8 2010 from 2-5pm.
The conference will explore the impact of Cuba’s political and economic conditions on its architecture and speculate on the future of architecture and development in Cuba.
Participants
The event organizers have assembled a group of leading architects, academics, politicians and economists, such as Dr. Eusebio Leal, Deputy to the Cuban National Assembly of the Popular Power,…
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The American Ballet Theatre of New York City Ballet has been granted permission from the US government to perform at the 22nd International Festival of Havana.
The Festival runs from October 28 to November 7 and will feature a special tribute to the 90 year old prima ballerina, Alicia Alonso
The ABT has not performed in Cuba since 1960.
The Festival will also feature performances by the Royal Ballet of London, the National Ballet Español, La Scala and Teatro Colón Ballet among others.
Alonso was a member of the ABT in the 1940s. She debuted with the character of…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
As cigar aficionados know, Altadis and General Cigar have been fighting a lengthy legal battle over the Cohiba brand that is being documented at our sister site, Cohibas.com.
Days ago General Cigar appears to have made a strategic move to expand its ownership and use of the disputed trademark names with Cuba keyword domain name registrations.
On June 30, 2010 General Cigar registered dozens of Cuban cigar brand domain names, apparently for it’s own marketing or trademark defense purposes.
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By Christopher Rhoads | Wall Street Journal
Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar flew to Havana, Cuba, in August 1996 with hopes of making the biggest score yet in the shadowy trade of helping elite Cuban baseball players defect to the U.S. major leagues.
The former truck driver, then 38 years old and an American citizen, already had helped four Cuban pitchers escape and net big-league contracts worth almost $11 million combined. One of them, Liván Hernández, would win the World Series Most Valuable Player award the following year.
But Mr. Hernández Nodar, whose family fled Cuba when he was two, was…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
I am proud to announce that we have put together a rare gathering of Cuba experts who will offer their insight and expertise during a unique four-day conference from June 10 through June 13 in Provincetown Massachusetts.
The Cuban art and culture conference will educate and entertain attendees with a variety of Cuban art and culture sessions, feature a Cuban art auction, a Cuban dance party, a Cuba movie day and much more.
We are proud and very fortunate to bring such a long and diverse list of Cuba…
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Carlos Varela, the acclaimed Cuban cantautor (singer/songwriter) is coming to the United States for his first concert tour in more than a decade. The tour has been sponsored by Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt.
Carlos is Cuba’s most popular folk/rock musical artist. For thirty years, he has been the voice of his generation—and of all Cubans coming of age since the triumph of the Revolution—performing for enthusiastic crowds across the island, even when Cuban radio stations refused to play some of his songs.
The tour is promoting Carlos’ latest album: “NO ES EL FIN”, which continues…
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PharmaBiz.com Bangalore
Biocon subsidiary company Biocon SA, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the 49 per cent equity stake in Biocon Biopharmaceuticals (BBPL) and Cuban pharmaceutical joint venture between Biocon and CIMAB SA
With acquisition of a 49% stake, Biocon and CIMAB can focus on the joint development of novel biologics led by its most promising program T1h (Anti-CD6 Monoclonal antibody) which has just entered phase-III clinical trials in Psoriasis.
This partnership has already resulted in the successful launch of India’s first novel monoclonal antibody ‘BIOMAb’ for the treatment of head &…
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If you like old Cuban postcards, history and architecture, you are in for a real treat.
A new coffee table book titled Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage, by Cathryn Griffith, will be released next month.
It features more than 350 colored postcard images of Havana next to a recent color photograph of the same subject from the same viewpoint giving the reader a perfect comparison of old Havana and today’s Havana.
The result is stunning imagery based on years of research and preparation encompassing Cathryn Griffith’s collection of more than 600 postcards…
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By Celeste Mackenzie | Canadian Press
If you venture into Old Havana, you can’t miss the many art galleries among the elegant arches and columns of the restored colonial streets. And, if you’re lucky, you may just come upon some of Cuba’s top artists at work there, or at least minding the shop.
Given their often reasonable cost and ease of transport, I’m always on the lookout for prints in Havana. Just roll them up and pop them in a poster tube you’ve brought from home.
Now more than ever might be the time to buy Cuban art: the United…
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Tom Fawthrop | Al Jazeera
Among the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims.
Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck.
However, their pivotal work in the health sector has received scant media coverage.
“It is striking that there has been virtually no mention in the media of the fact that Cuba had several hundred health personnel on the ground before any other country,” said David Sanders, a professor…
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