Note: This event is supported by the Madison Camagüey Sister City Association.

Dear friends:
I am writing to let you know that we have begun work on the II INTERNATIONAL VIDEO-ART FESTIVAL OF CAMAGUEY, 2009, which will be held in Camaguey City, Cuba from November 27th to December 1st, 2009.  Our Festival provides an opportunity for all artists, local or foreign, young or well established to present their work…

Dear Ricardo,

Fifty years is enough already!  It’s time to end this legacy of isolation and time to start engaging our neighbor.  We’ve been pressuring Congress to end the travel ban, but we’ll need your help to push it over the edge.

We’re organizing a National Day of Action called CubaGO!  Strategically-identified delegations from across the country will be coming to DC to meet with their members of Congress. But…

En la ciudad de Camagüey, a 500 kilómetros de La Habana, fructificó en el 2008 una buena idea: la celebración de un Festival Internacional de Video-Arte para promocionar y discutir sobre este género.

El evento respondió en su inicio a las necesidades creativas de un grupo importante de artistas jóvenes de la localidad, inspirados en las tendencias y prácticas artísticas más contemporáneas a nivel internacional.

Uno de los mayores aciertos…

Britain’s Royal Ballet with their principal dancer, Cuban-born Carlos Acosta, comes to Havana and performs with the National Ballet.  This article from the Observer explores the significance of ballet in Cuba, its history after the revolution and the role played by Alicia Alonso, now 90, as it reports on the week long series of performances and celebrations occasioned by the meeting of these two companies.

The week-long tour

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 – 7 PM
Sequoya Branch Public Library
Tokay at Midvale Boulevards – Madison, WI

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Link to article

President Obama – who owes nothing to Florida’s powerful community of rich Republican Cuban expatriates – is trying to erase U.S. hostility toward the island 90 miles from Key West. …

Now, oddly, an expert says a loophole in U.S. law could give Obama a chance finally to erase the embargo. Writing in The Washington Monthly (a journal created by Charleston native Charles Peters), Patrick Doherty of

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HAVANA (Reuters) – Cash-strapped Cuba should consider putting more of its state-run economy in the hands of producers, as President Raul Castro has done with agriculture, the country’s top economic commentator said on Tuesday.

Ariel Terrero, during his regular Tuesday appearance on state-run television, did not call for private management, but suggested that sectors such as food services and retail could perform better if they were run in a new

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