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EVENTS

Jazz Plaza

Festival

2022

From Havana to have drawn attention to the alliance between
music and visual arts, because this year the event’s
poster has been made by Eduardo Roca (Choco),
Santiago de Cuba National Prize for Plastic Arts.
It is a festival with Jazz as the motive, but in itself,
it is a festival for all music. Its realization has been
planned as a hybrid event, since it will maintain its
presence on social networks, an experience lived
T he 2022 Jazz Plaza International Festival in the 2021 edition, and also in physical venues,
such as the Plaza Casa de la Cultura, where the
invites you to enjoy the best music at the start
Festival arose and to which its name pays tribute.
of the year, since its 37th edition is scheduled
for January 18-23, an excellent time to travel to In Havana, the festival will reach the Karl Marx,
Cuba. Ever since its presentation, the organizers Nacional and América theaters, and other spaces
such as the Cuban Art Factory, the Cuba Pavilion
and the Mella Theater Gardens. In Santiago de
Cuba it will hit the stages of the Sala Dolores, the
Iris Jazz and the Patio de la UNEAC.
Jazz Plaza 2022 will have the logistical support
of Transcultura, a UNESCO program that for the
first time joins the organization of the event. It
does so with the proposal of holding small parallel
workshops, which facilitate exchange between
artists from various countries and promote their
insertion into the European market.
The 2022 Jazz Plaza International Festival
program includes the long-awaited concerts and
the Leonardo Acosta in Memoriam theoretical
meeting. This is a highly anticipated musical
event every year in Cuba, because in addition to
bringing together the most important names in
the genre worldwide, it serves as a launching pad
for new talents.

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