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Visiting Flora Fong at her Havana Studio
Books
Letters of Love and Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five
introduced by Alice Walker, with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejon
Ocean Books, May 2005
Letters of Love and Hope (Book Announcement)
A Place in the Sun?: Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba,
Catherine Davies, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998
A Place in the Sun? (Book Description)
Ocean Press ("in the world to change the world") is an independent publisher with a unique list of books offering a radical global vision of politics and history, focusing particularly on Latin America, and including a focus on Cuba. See the complete Ocean Press catalog:
Ocean Press
Arts
Sitio oficial de la pintora cubana Flora Fong:
Flora Fong
Film & Theatre
Music & Dance
Charanga Danzon: Charanga is a genre and ensemble of Cuban dance music merging African and European influences, highlighting flute and violin. Danzon is the national dance style of Cuba. Founded in 2008 by violinist and educator Irene Mitri, Charanga Danzon is a unique Cuban music ensemble based in Seattle. This fluid ensemble finds its basis honoring the tradition of strings in Cuban music, with a repertoire including traditional charanga, son/danzon, cha-cha-cha, classical, and jazz. Members of Charanga Danzon include Irene Mitri (violin, ensemble director), Fred Hoadley (piano, tres), Francisco Medina Jr. (percussion), Michael Nicolella (guitar), Jim O'Halloran (flutes), Andy Schloss (percussion), Pedro Vargas (percussion), Ben Verdier (bass), with special guests Lance Lu (shekere, dance) and Theodora Fogarty (dance).
Charanga DanzonContact Irene Mitri, (206) 789-6280, Irena Mitri
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