Festivals and Concerts

International
• New Zealand Festival: 13 – 17 March 2002 including a series of evening shows at the Heineken Dans Paleis, Wellington, all sold-out, and performances as part of the Out & About programme of the Festival at Victoria University, the Fiesta Latina in Harcourt Park, and Porirua Museum of Arts & Culture and rousing contribution to late night latin descarga at the packed Festival Club
• UK Tour: 24 April - 28 May 2001 with support from the Arts Council of England's National Touring Programme and from Visiting Arts. Performances included Cambridge Corn Exchange, Royal Festival Hall London as part of the La Linea Festival (both with Cubanisimo) as well as further appearances in London, Bristol, Brighton, Leicester, Manchester, and at the Orange WOW Festival on the famous Fish Quays in Tyneside. A range of contextual workshops, masterclasses and demonstrations were also programmed, as well as a residency at Brighton's Sussex Arts Club.

• National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, USA , 28 July - 6 August 2000 with a series of performances and workshops alongside other world-class artists from the African diaspora

• Cuban Cultural Week in Portugal: 27 March - 4 April 1998 with performances in the following cities: Vidigueira, Serpa, Mertola, Moura, Aljustrel and Beja.

• Association of Town Halls of Alentejo (Portugal): April 1998, invitation to participate in the cultural activites of this event together with the Cuban National Council of Art and the Cuban Association of Artists, including live radio performances.

Cuba
Venues and Festivals include:

• Casa de las Americas
• Afro-Cuban Cultural Festivals (Wemíleres de Guanabacoa)
• Ibero-American Chorus Festivals organized by the Gran Teatro of Havana
• Inauguration of the Cuban Association of Artists and Artisans
• Casa de Africa
• Peña del Ambia in the National Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC)
• Fiesta deI Fuego held in Santiago de Cuba in 1997
• Festival del Caribe, Santiago: First Colloquium on the work of the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén
• Rumba Festival at FIART (International Art Festival)
• V & VI Bienal of Plastic Art in Havana
• El Morro castle
• Rumba Festival 2000 in Havana
• El Zorro y el Cuervo jazz club, Havana (International festival of Jazz, November 2001)
• El Gran Palenke ( patio of the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba ) : resident host group for Sabado de Rumba
• PerCuba (Percussion Festival) 2002 in Havana
• Cubadisco 2002


Last updated Monday, October 21, 2002