Tribute to Daisy Fontao
On Thursday, May 29, 2025, in commemoration of Cuban Playwriting and Theater in Exile Day, a special program honoring actress Daisy Fontao will be broadcast on the Artefactus Cultural Project YouTube channel. This program, in collaboration with the OLLANTAY Center for the Arts and the Cuatrogatos Foundation, was released. The event, recorded in 2024, featured […]
Tribute to Jorge Oviedo
Tribute to Jorge Ovies on Cuban Exile Playwriting and Theater Day. May 30th marks Cuban Exile Playwriting and Theater Day, a day that celebrates the memory, identity, and creativity of Cuban artists who, from exile, have kept the flame of theater alive as an expression of cultural resistance. This day, created in 2013 by the […]
Presentation of the novel “Negro en la costa”
Presentation of the Novel “Negro en la Costa” by María Elena Hernández On Saturday, June 7, 2025, at 8:30 p.m., the presentation of the new novel by Cuban-American writer María Elena Hernández, entitled “Negro en la Costa,” published by Ediciones Furtivas, will take place. The event is organized by the Artefactus Cultural Project and the […]
Cuban Exile Dramaturgy and Theater Day
CUBAN EXILE PLAYWRITING AND THEATER DAY ARTEFACTUS Cultural Project and OLLANTAY Center for the Arts once again call for the commemoration of Cuban Exile Playwright and Theater Day, a day to celebrate the vigor, complexity, and persistence of a theater born on the fringes of insularity, yet deeply linked to Cuban cultural history. This initiative […]
Blue
The play invites us to immerse ourselves in the world of a gay couple, Marcos and Blas, who are well-established in their love and their surroundings. They live with Blas’s mother. This everyday environment is shaken up when Blas decides to undergo his gender reassignment, thus revealing his true identity and his new life of […]
Cities Of Memory From The Black Box
On Saturday, April 5, Venezuelan writers Camilo Pino and Luis Alejandro Ordóñez will hold a conversation about different aspects of literary creation, the distinctive features of their works, the challenges of writing in Spanish from the United States, and much more. They will each ask and answer questions, and at the end, the audience at […]
The Preacher
The Preacher, a documentary by Gustavo Pérez Fernández In a very intricate part of Cuba, a family lives frozen in time. Their leader, Pelao, believes himself to be enlightened. Twelve generals from the War of Independence against Spanish colonialism serve as his medium in their spiritualist rituals, enabling them to communicate with the afterlife. His […]
Multiple Dimensions by César García
“Multiple Dimensions” by visual artist César García. César García (Havana, Cuba, 1961) had his first encounter with art through his uncle, a Cuban artist trained at the prestigious San Alejandro Academy. From childhood, the hours spent in that studio shaped his sensitivity and awakened a deep calling. In 1969, he emigrated with his family to […]
Color – by Gustavo Pérez Fernández
Preaching with Light What distinguishes this species from the rest of the animals is its capacity for artistic creation. Art is the guiding light of the path and the bow that man bends to transcribe his history, his vital environment, his inner demons, and the flight of time. The material from which works of art […]
Look at me and don’t touch me
The play “Look at Me and Don’t Touch Me,” written and directed by Eddy Díaz-Souza, draws on the absurd to offer a provocative take on relationships, the reconstruction of the past, and the search for freedom in a rapidly reorganizing world. The play will be presented on June 30th, July 1st at 8:30 p.m., and […]