The Enchanted Stag is directed by Nelda Castillo, former Buend’a director. She has no fixed address, but is red-headed, and can sometimes be found round the park of L’nea and K, in Vedado. Nelda is a gutsy challenger of the status quo, and has unflinchingly resisted the ‘ideologisation’ of art. The State has refused to give her a theatre, so she must work underground. Seek out her De dónde son los cantantes? , which uses text from a cousin enfant terrible of dissidence, Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Archive for June, 2010
La Lluvia de Oro
Calle Obispo #316, esquina a Habana (629870)
Open 8am-1am Mon-Thur; 8am-3am Fri-Sun. Admission free.
Old-fashioned drinking den with a long wooden bar and overhead fans. There’s live son music 11am to 10pm daily. .
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Sydney at Federation
Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Australia’s Federation, this exhibition marks the time when Sydney transformed itself from a sleepy Victorian backwater to the brash and breezy 20th-century city it is now. Photographs, film footage and interactive panoramas of the Sydney cityscape as it was then are contrasted with today’s glass and concrete skyline. A chance to immerse yourself in a quieter, gentler period.
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