Ballad of a summer
Havanafama, in co -production with Project Cultural Artifactus, presents ballad of a summer, the work of Cuban playwright Héctor Santiago, under the direction of Juan Roca. This set the reunion with an author of exile and with a piece that dialogues intensely with the present. The action begins with the return of Santiago, after a […]
A heart, suddenly.
The July season concludes with the premiere of “Un corazón, de repente,” a theatrical show directed and adapted by Eddy Díaz-Souza, based on a selection of stories and poems by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, a key figure in Portuguese-language literature. The show offers a scenic journey through feminine universes, complex emotions, and intimate revelations that […]
Frank and Leo
“Frank and Leo,” Iran Capote’s retelling of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Water Drops on Hot Stones,” directed by Miriam Bermúdez. With sharp, dark humor, the play explores the relationships of power, desire, and emotional dependence between a young man and his older lover, caught in a dizzying game of manipulation and vulnerability. The cast includes Héctor […]
Landscape on a postcard
“Landscape in a postcard”, poetic reading by the writer Carlos Pintado, author of “Cuaderno del falso amor impuro” and “Música para cuerdas de bamboo”. The title of the event comes from a verse of his own work. Pintado, born in Pinar del Río in 1974, is a poet, narrator and playwright, and has received recognitions […]
Of shores, oaks and hostelvas
The Artofactus Cultural Center will be the scene of the presentation of the poems of shores, oaks and honeystelvas, by Mireya Goñi Camejo, recently published by the Bethany publishing house (Madrid). In this new volume, the author explores issues such as uprooting, affective memory and the link with the homeland from an intimate and contemplative […]
The Grindr Show
The Queer Showcase season closes with three performances of “The Grindr Show,” a Dreki Theater production based on a play written and directed by José Raúl Acosta, starring Dairín Valdés, Lola Bosch, Eddy Estrada, and Osiel Veliz. In this hybrid musical theater and cabaret piece, Grindr—a gender-fluid character, part dating app, part stage diva—guides the […]
The City of Columns
On Thursday, June 20, “The City of Columns” opens, by visual artist Felipe Alarcón Echenique (Havana, 1966), who currently resides in Madrid. This exhibition, inspired by Alejo Carpentier’s emblematic metaphor, is a pictorial reinterpretation of Havana from a perspective that combines Neo-Cubism and Antillean Baroque. The city’s columns multiply, fragment, and transform into signs of […]
Delusions
The second weekend of Queer Showcase 2025, on June 13, 14, and 15, features “Delirios,” a play written and directed by Eddy Díaz-Souza that explores the boundaries between sanity and madness, belonging and exclusion, through a family that must deal with the arrival of an unexpected visitor. With a structure that combines absurdity, comedy, and […]
Live Intimo Concert – Waldo Díaz Miranda
As part of the opening night of the Queer Showcase 2025, a small, intimate concert will be offered by musician Waldo Díaz Miranda, who will accompany the opening with a selection of piano pieces. A Cuban-American musician who graduated with honors from the New World School of the Arts and the University of Miami, Díaz […]
Puzzles – A nostalgia without the drama.
The Queer Showcase season opens on Friday, June 6, 2025, at 8:30 p.m., with the exhibition “Rompecabezas: Una nostalgia sin dramas” (Puzzle: A Nostalgia Without Drama), by visual artist Sergio Chávez (Havana, 1965), who has lived in the United States since 1999. Trained at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and the National School […]