Author Flyer-Cuban Fusion Book: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music Scene. Palgrave MacMillan

 

 

Mi primer libro sobre música cubana en la diáspora desde los ‘90 ya tiene carátula y se va haciendo realidad. 

 

Agradecida a Robin Moore, Mike Levine y a Greg Landau por sus endosos. 

 

Su publicación online y física por la editorial Palgrave Macmillan se acerca. 

 

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My first book about Cuban music in diaspora since the 1990s has already a cover and is taking shape.

Grateful to Robin Moore, Greg Landau & Mike Levine for their endorsements.

The book’s publication is getting closer. For more info click here.

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Invitation-Panelist-"The Beat Goes On: AfroCuban Music and its impact in the United States"-Wolfsonian FIU-Miami, Florida-January 2023

Agradecida y honrada por esta invitación de Florida International University, School of International and Public Affairs y el museo The Wolfsonian-FIU para participar en este panel en Miami sobre el impacto de la música afrocubana en los Estados Unidos, a propósito de una exhibición sobre el tema "The Beat Goes On: AfroCuban Music and its impact in the United States."

 

 Thankful and honored for this invitation to participate in a panel in Miami on the impact of AfroCuban music in the US., in the context of an exhibition on this topic in the Wolfsonian FIU museum: "The Beat Goes On: Afro-Cuban Music and its Impact in the United States."

 

 

Miami Alternativo-Podcast Limited Series-Bilingual-Spanish & English. Alafia Creative Entertainment in collab with Artistnator

by Eva Silot Bravo 

Miami Alternativo is a limited podcast series created by Dr. Eva Silot Bravo, founder of Alafia Creative Entertainment, in collaboration with Artistnator.

The series is based on Dr. Silot Bravo's doctoral research on alternative and transnational art scenes in Miami and other world cities, including Havana, published as a doctoral dissertation by the University of Miami since August 2016. 

Miami Alternativo proposes 5 interviews to remarkable local and transnational talents Consuelo Castaneda, Sandra Ramos, Niurka Marquez, DJ Spam All Starts-Andrew Yeomanson, and Leslie Cartaya. 

These artists represent a sample of the amazing number of international outstanding talents who call Miami home and have been enriching the local art scenes in the visual arts, dance and movement, cultural promotion, non-profit, dance, live arts, music production, and performance.

These artists have developed oustanding professional and personal careers beyond mainstream markets, locally and transnationally. 

They are truly inspirational, by the level of mastering they have achieved in their artistic lives, and by being on the move, constantly updating their creative paths with the contexts and time they have been living in.

photos by Artisnator

AudioFiles-To Listen to each of the 5 chapters, Please Click on the Description bellow each picture.

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1rst episode Interview with visual artist Consuelo Castañeda 

2nd episode Interview with dancer, choreographer and cultural promoter Niurca Marquez

3 episode Interview with Founder and Director of DJ Spam Allstars

4 episode. Interview to visual artist Sandra Ramos

5 episode. Interview to Grammy Nominated musician  Leslie Cartaya

Meet Dr. Eva Silot Bravo of Alafia Creative Entertainment in Wynwood Art District

Meet Dr. Eva Silot Bravo of Alafia Creative Entertainment in Wynwood Art District

by Voyage Mia Magazine, L.A.

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"Ochas" Suite. Dialogue between Afrocuban music and Jazz in New York in the 21st. century. Jazz @ Lincoln Center.

Evolution of the dialogue between Afrocuban music and Jazz in New York in the 21st. century. 

Winton Marsalis, Chucho Valdes, Pedrito Martinez, Roman Diaz, Yesenia Selier & Jazz @ Lincoln Center Orchestra, among others.

Jazz Night in America series. NPR documentary. 

SETLIST
3:02 - ‘Moyuba’
17:03 - ‘Ogún’
24:25 - ‘Obatalá’
49:32 - ‘Changó’

Presenting on the XI Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies at FIU, February 2017

Last February, I had the pleasure of making a presentation at a Panel on Cuban Popular Music on the Island and in the Diaspora, at the Eleventh Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies. The conference was organized by the Cuban Research Institute from Florida International University.

The panel was chaired by Nora Gamez (El Nuevo Herald) and the panelists were: Beatriz Calvo Peña (Barry University, Miami), Liliana Casaneva Cue (Instituto Cubano de la Música, Havana) and Hazell Santiso Aguila (Universidad Autónoma de Aguas Calientes, México). We also had the great company of musicologist and author Dr. Cristobal Diaz Ayala.

Program

Ivy League Rumba. 2016. A PBS Documentary about Afro-Cuban music (full documentary)

Ivy League Rumba

http://video.wpbt2.org/video/2365864248/

A preview for Artsburst Miami about the upcoming Zun Zun Children Fest, October 1st, presented by FUNDarte.

ZUN ZÚN FEST: A CELEBRATION OF ARTS EDUCATION AND DIVERSITY FOR CHILDREN

Text originally published by Artburst.

Photo: by FUNDarte

WRITTEN BY: EVA SILOT BRAVO

In the last 15 years, Miami residents have witnessed the city’s steady transformation into an international urban hub with the customary arrival of communities from all over. Together with the controversial impact of large-scale real state ventures that prompted that expansion, there’s been a significant shift in the diversity, frequency and depth of the cultural options available to Miamians in any given season, which is still often overlooked.

An important part of Miami’s cultural options has been spawned by the local non-profit sector, in organizations such as FUNDarte, a pioneer in creating multicultural spaces to present top-notch international and local talent on a regular basis.

The upcoming 2016 Zun Zún Children Fest opening Saturday, Oct. 1, presented by FUNDarte, is an example. The line-up and performances were chosen to promote the production of art for children. That is the case of multi Grammy nominee, singer/songwriter and author Rita Rosa Ruesga, who will perform with composer, singer and author Robbi Kumalo and New York-based musician and world music performer Luchy Kalanraty. The festival also features the New York theater company Teatro SEA/Society of Educational Arts.

SEA is a bilingual institution committed to providing a combination of arts-in-educational theater and workshops for Latin communities for more than 20 years. Says Manuel Morán, the company’s CEO, “It has always been important that children who came from Latin America, like those who were born here, know about their culture."

For the Zun Zún Fest, SEA is presenting the inspirational musical “My SuperHero: Roberto Clemente,” a play written and directed by Morán about a boy named Bobby who shows up to school, on a “superhero day,” dressed up as legendary Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente. Clemente died on one of his trips to Nicaragua in 1972, on his way to help survivors after the impact of an earthquake. For Morán, “this type of personality passes very often under the table without any or no recognition.” His choice to adapt Clemente’s story was largely motivated to “teach children that Latin-American countries and Latin communities have important people, ‘living legends’ that inspire the human heart beyond fiction.” By doing that, the piece attempts to redefine mainstream stereotypes about superheroes and instill in children self-respect and confidence.

“Superheroes do not always have supernatural powers,” says Morán. “Our main purpose is that children feel proud of their roots and we want to make them conscious that they also have the tools to be superheroes.”

With a similar focus on educating children on the richness of Latin and Latin-American cultures, the other acts presented by Zun Zún Fest this year encompasses music, theater, poetry reading, puppet shows and audiovisuals. In the case of Ruesga’s music performance, she dialogues with Afro-Caribbean references. Reflecting on what audiences can expect from her upcoming performance, Ruesga says: “I love to integrate different percussion instruments to my musical arrangements because the rhythm patterns are very well received by children, as well as the visual image of those folk instruments. Adding those rhythms and musical instruments to my songs for children is the best way I have to pass them on to future generations.”

FUNDarte presents Zun Zún Fest, in partnership with Zunzún Arts and Education and the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, opening Saturday, Oct. 1, 2:00-5:00 p.m., at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, 2901 W. Flagler St., Miami; Tickets $20 Adults, $5 Children under 14. www.ticketmaster.com; 305 547 5414, 786 348 0789.

The festival’s educational activities include a Colloquium on music and literature for children on September 28, 9:00 a.m.-noon, at Centro Cultural Español; and a music and theater performance for K-5 students on Sept. 30, 10:00 a.m.-noon at Miami-Dade County Auditorium, Mid Stage.