The Ryerson University Men’s Volleyball Team annual Cuba winter training camp: full of actions
The Ryerson University Men’s Volleyball Team partook in its annual Cuba winter training camp. This year’s destination was Varadero, which is about two hours east of the capital, Havana. Personally, this was my seventh time traveling to this Caribbean nation – five times as a player and two times as an assistant coach. I must say, this was the best one yet! Let me tell you why...
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Céltica Highland Dancers en Cuba
Cuba Dancing Event with Canada Cuba Sports and Cultural Festivals:
Cuando aún está fresca la celebración del Primer Festival Internacional de Música y Tradiciones Celtas – CeltFest Cuba – tuvimos la oportunidad de disfrutar del Grupo de aficionados Céltica Highland Dancers, de Nueva Escocia, Canadá.
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Canada Cuba Sports And Cultural Festivals: Student Cuba experience
I was lucky enough to be in Cuba for two weeks this holiday season. It was especially interesting for me because this was my first time in Cuba.
Since I am what you could call a volleyball addict, two weeks of two a days was exactly how I wanted to spend my vacation.
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Canada Cuba Sports And Cultural Festivals: Making musical memories in Cuba
Former Daily Herald-Tribune photographer Rick Erlendson recently accompanied more than 150 students from the Grande Prairie Composite high school music program as a parent chaperone. The students were in Cuba for 10 days as part of a musical exchange. We’re pleased to present his images and words describing the experience.
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Saint Patrick High School took the stage In Cuba
Tony Arujo directing the choirs of Vancouver’s Saint Patrick High
School took the stage last night at Havana’s premier concert venue,
Teatro Amadeo Roldan. This gala evening of choral music, presented by Canada Cuba Sports & Cultural Festivals and Centro Nacional de Musica
de Concierto, included performances by a number of renowned Cuban
choirs including Vocal Luna, directed by Sonia McCormack and Vocal Leo,
directed by Corrina Campos. The concerts repertoire included
arrangments/compositions by leading Cuban and Canadian composers
Roberto Valera, Guido Lopez Gavilan, Brian Tate and Jonathan
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Simon Fraser University Women's Softball Exhibition Series In Havana
Mike Renney, head coach of the Canadian women's softball team said: "This has been the best of our three tours to Cuba. We have always been able to get in excellent games, joint training but the competition this time has been vital for us...."
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Canadian Choirs on Tour
National and international tours are nothing new for Canadian Choirs. In fact, our choirs have toured to every continent as well as across the country. What are the bnefits of touring? The answer is many, of course, as you will find out by reading about the travels of University of Lethbridge Singers, the Gerald Fagan Singers and Choir Leoni. Thanks to the three choirs who provided these reports on their advantures and highlights.
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St. Mary's Students Storm Cuba
Working with Canada cuba Sports and Festivals, students from St. Mary's Secondary
School in Cobourg had a wonderful get-away in January - which, best of all, was part of
their Canadian Academy of Travel and Tourism course.
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Learning on the Road: Canada-Cuba Connections
This curriculum based article discusses music field trips as multi-modal learning contexts.
Credit Dr. Ed Wasiak, CME Journal, Volume 48-Number 1 Autumn 2006
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Ballet Yevshan en La Habana
A la colorida paleta de oportunidades artísticas de los últimos días
se sumó, en el teatro América, la actuación del Ballet Folclórico
Ucraniano Yevshan, que, proveniente de Canadá, quiso compartir.
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No vendemos a Cuba sino promovemos su cultura
Para Jonathan Watts, presidente de Canada-CubaSports & Culture Festivals,
la idea del turismo es bien ajena a la de "vender un destino". "Lo que
hacemos —afirma— es promover la cultura cubana".
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En la fuente viva del jazz cubano
Vinieron de la lejana Columbia
Británica, una de las provincias de
Canadá. Sus edades oscilan entre los
14 y los 18 años. Cursan estudios
secundarios en una escuela de la enseñanza
general. Pero tienen una fuerte afición: el
jazz. Y como saben que Cuba es una de las
referencias del género en su vertiente latina,
se acogieron al programa de intercambios
que propicia la Canada-Cuba Sports& Culture Festivals
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Music and Education take University of Lethbridge's Wasiak to Cuba
“Bobby and his band members are incredible musicians. Playing with them is kind of like being given the keys to a Ferrari and taking it for a spin. It was wonderful,” says Wasiak.
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Coastal Sound Children's Choir in Havana
Staff Correspondent From Havana, Cuba reporting about the performance by Coastal Sound Children's Choir from British Columbia, Canada...
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La edad de la conciencia
Los 50 jóvenes estudiantes de la Universidad de Saskatoon, en la provincia canadiense de Saskatchewan, no son los mismos que llegaron a Cuba una semana atrás, para participar en un intercambio coral con agrupaciones de la Isla, promovido por el Canada Cuba Sports & Culture Festival.
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Cuban Choir Wins Top Award in Italy
The Schola Cantorum Coralina choir, directed by professor Alina Orraca, has brought prestige to the Cuban choir movement by winning last weekend the Citta d’ Arezzo Grand Prize 2006 ..
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Conquista la Schola Cantorum Coralina
Gran Premio Cittá d' Arezzo
La Schola Cantorum Coralina, que dirige la profesora Alina Orraca, puso en alto el prestigio del movimiento coral cubano al conquistar el último fin de semana el Gran Premio Cittá d' Arezzo 2006...
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Después de Arezzo, hacia el Grand Prix Europeo
Es obligada la ampliación de la noticia: la conquista del Gran Premio del 54to. Concurso Internacional Polifónico Cittá d'Arezzo por parte de la Schola Cantorum Coralina hará que Cuba, por segunda vez, opte por el Grand Prix Europeo, evento en el que concursan las agrupaciones vocales laureadas en el más exigente circuito de canto coral del Viejo Continente.
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Kolorit y Coralina a una voz
Aunque el encuentro, como era de esperar, haya transcurrido por los cauces
de la polifonía, el resultado fue como si una voz potente, la que habla de
vínculos solidarios e identidades culturales anudadas, predominara en elámbito del hemiciclo del Palacio de Gobierno, en La Habana Vieja.
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Democracia en el diamante
Danny y Jackson Goosh supieron por qué sudaban bajo el implacable sol del
trópico, mientras trasegaban gruesos listones de madera para armar las
gradas del estadio de Calabazar. Muchos meses atrás, estos adolescentes,
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Democracy on the Baseball Diamond
Pedro de la Hoz and Jackson Goosh knew why they were sweating in the relentless
tropical sun as they carried thick boards for the bleachers at the stadium in Calabazar.
Months before, these teenage students and baseball lovers from a high school on the
Pacific Coast of Canada got involved in a solidarity effort that would go way beyond
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Cuba in Canada: mission possible
When Alina Orraca heard seven choirs at the University of Lethbridge
singing, with such grace and style, a version of “El bodeguero” by
Richard Egües, she was certain that her many intense days on Canadian
soil had not been in vain.
The same thing happened with Bobby Carcassés at the end of his concert
with the jazz group at this center for higher education: the Latin touch
had been assimilated from the off and for the young performers, a new
road along which to travel had been opened.
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Cuba en Canadá: misión posible
Cuando Alina Orraca escuchó en la Universidad de Lethbridge a siete coros
entonar con gracia y sabor una versión de El bodeguero, de Richard Egües,
tuvo la certeza de que tantas intensas jornadas en tierras canadienses no
eran en vano.
Lo propio aconteció con
Bobby Carcassés, al término
de su concierto con el
conjunto de jazz de esa casa
de altos estudios: el toque
latino había sido
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Canada's silence on U.S.'s Cuba policy
speaks volumes: experts
OTTAWA (CP) - The moment
Fidel Castro passes away - or at
least the moment the world finds
out about it - has taken on almost
mythic proportions south of the
border.
In Washington, there are
elaborate plans to help Cuba with
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Voces de Lethbridge
ños atrás, durante una convención mundial de cortos, el profesor canadiense George Evelyn había encontrado en Exaudi una distinción particular a la hora de afrontar el canto.
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Cuban group grooves way to choral fest
Novel Vos may be performing at a choral festival, but the term “choir” hardly does them
justice.
The Cuban group, among the guest performers at the Coastal Sound International Choral
Festival June 29 to July 4, is more of a “vocal ensemble” or a “vocal orchestra,” said
Jonathan Watts, president of the Canada Cuba Sports and Cultural Festivals, which is cosponsoring
the septet’s visit to B.C. this month.
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Cuban Vocal Jazz at SMUS
This week, students and faculty were treated to two performances – one of
which was exclusive to our school – by the premiere Cuban vocal jazz
ensemble, Novel Voz. The SMUS vocal jazz group opened for Novel Voz at
Hermann’s Jazz Club on Sunday afternoon.
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Me marcho contagiado de buenas vibraciones rítmicas
"La voz humana es prodigiosa y el canto hermana", sentencia este músico y
organizador excepcional, quien agradece al Instituto Cubano de la Música y a
la organización Cuba Canadá Sports & Cultural Festivals la oportunidad de
asistir al V América Cantat.
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