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 […]
Queer Showcase 2025
Queer Showcase – Spring-Summer 2025 June 6–29 | Artefactus Cultural Center From June 6–29, 2025, as spring dissolves into summer and the calendar places us in a time of transition and expansion, the Queer Showcase returns to the Artefactus Cultural Center with an edition that reaffirms its vocation as a territory of openness, diversity, and […]
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 […]