CULTURE
Raúl Hernández Novás, essayist
About the book Raúl Hernández Novás. Essays, published last year by the Casa de las Américas Editorial Fund, Daniel Céspedes Góngora offers his impressions to readers of Palabra Nueva. […]
Year: 2019
NEWS
San Nicolás de Bari, a patron saint’s festival with a taste of the village
With a massive procession along the main street and a solemn Mass, presided over by Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez, the members of the community of San Nicolás de Bari, of the Archdiocese of Havana, celebrated their patron saint’s feast. […]
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In Havana, its organs are heard again
International Organ Cycle of Havana, organized by the Chair of Sacred Music of the Padre Félix Varela Cultural Center. […]
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The final notes of Havana Organs
They closed the curtains of the Organs cycle of Havana, organized by the Chair of Sacred Music of the Padre Félix Varela Cultural Center. […]
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Celebrate III World Day of the Poor in Havana
This first Sunday of advent the members of the community of Sant’Egidio in Cuba celebrated the Third World Day of the Poor with a mass in the Church of Our Lady of Monserrate, which was presided over by Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez, Archbishop of Havana. […]
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Between notes and stations
Just seven o’clock on the night of November 26, 2019, the sunsets of Havana’s Santa Metropolitana Catedral were opened, thus opening Viacrucis, exhibition by the renowned plastic creator Michel Pérez Pollo. […]
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From Europe to Havana: a unique concert in La Catedral
European Union Youth Orchestra performs unique concert at Havana Cathedral […]
SOCIETY
The stranger who remains
Cuba needs good teachers. But as the author of this article rightly says, “I hope that all bureaucrats who are linked to education on this earth will just realize that solving our problems is not found in hollow slogans and expressions; it’s about creating, that doesn’t exist, a body of missionary teachers and not docile repeaters.” […]
SOCIETY
Trick or treat?
With regard to the celebration by some Cubans of the Halloween festival just a few weeks ago, Word New proposes this reflection that, from the social, invites us to think about the need that we have as a people to preserve and rescue our traditions. However, as the author rightly says: “[…] joy, family communion, the right to celebrate whatever we want as long as it does not harm and respect one’s neighbour, are values that a truly humanist project should promote and applaud.” […]
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Singing to Havana in its half-millennium
A musical tour of five centuries of art in the capital city was the proposal of the Cultural Gala organized by the Chair of Sacred Music of the Padre Félix Varela Cultural Center and presented at the S.M.I. Cathedral of Havana on the night of November 17. […]