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  • esTratos

    An oral archive that creates a connection between the present, the past and the future of independent creation, community projects and dissidence in Cuba. esTratos is aimed at people and groups who are currently looking for what to do on the island or solutions for their projects. It aims to create a sense of community.

    A series for strategies.


    Our series are:

      • The children of the dissidents

      • Daddy's children

      • Banishments

      • Training

      • Cuban theater

      • black spring

      • Independent publishers

      • Art and censorship

      • Independent press

      • Cinema

      • Civic projects










  • THE CHILDREN OF DISSENTS

    • Sebastián Arcos Cazabón (2023)
    • Pablo Díaz Espí (2023)
    • María C. Werlau (2022)
    • Martha Beatriz Ferrer, activist,
      member of las Damas de Blanco (2021)
    • David González Moreno,
      son of freelance journalist
      from the group pf los 75, Ricardo González (2021)
    • Luz Escobar (2021)
    • Rosa María Payá Acevedo (2021)
    • Tahis Pujol,
      daughter of José Luis Pujol (2021)







  • LIKE FATHER LIKE SON

    • Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada (2023)
    • Jorge Calaforra (2022)
    • Jorge Dalton (2022)
    • Carlos Alejandro Rodriguez Halley,
      nephew of Luis Alberto López-Callejas
      (2021)
    • Jorge Masetti (2021)
    • Ileana de la Guardia,
      daughter of Coronel Antonio de la Guardia
      (2021)
    • Boris Luis Santa Coloma (2021)







  • BANISHMENTS

    • Eddy Rodríguez de la Cruz (2022)
    • Lidier Hernández Sotolongo (2022)
    • Yanelys Núñez Leyva (2022)
    • Víctor Alfonso (2022)
    • Ileana Álvarez González (2022)
    • Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho (2022)
    • Esteban Rodríguez (2022)
    • Katherine Bisquet y Amir Valle (2022)
    • Repression, prison and exile: history repeats itself (2021)
    • The expulsion of the non-converts: Cuba, repression and exile (2021)
    • Speaking from pain: poetry, censorship and exile in Cuba.






  • TRAINING

    • Testimony of penetration exercises of Cuban intelligence with Enrique García (2023)
    • Cuba: A war machine with Jorge Masetti (2023)
    • Enrique García (2023)
    • Carlos Liscano Fleitas (2023)
    • José W. Legaspi (2022)









  • GENDER DISPUTES

    • Gender disputes in the Cuban State from activism (2022)









  • CUBAN THEATER

    • Teatro Interrogante (2023)
    • La casa de los títeres (2023)
    • From the shout to the silence con with Alfonso (2023)
    • The route of an uncomfortable theater player with Erick Morales (2023)
    • Gaia Theater in Old Havana (2022)
    • Living statues in the streets of Havana (2022)
    • La Quinta rueda (2022)
    • Teatro Obstáculo in Cuba-Part 1 (2022)
    • Teatro Obstáculo in Cuba-Part 2 (2022)
    • The puppet theater in Cuba (2021)
    • The last generation of Berta Martínez disciples (2021)
    • The street theater in Cuba (2021)
    • Theatrical wit (2021)
    • The inner space (2021)
    • History of Cuban dramaturgy in the Revolution (2021)







  • BLACK SPRING

    • Berta Soler (2022)







  • INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS

    • Poetry and translation
    • The postnational map (a healthy editorial demarcation)
    • Miami capital of independent Cuban publishers IV
    • Miami capital of independent Cuban publishers III
    • Miami capital of independent Cuban publishers II
    • Miami capital of independent Cuban publishers I
    • Historical overview of independent publishers in exile
    • Conversation with Juan Manuel Salvat
    • Network of Independent Cuban Publishers (RedECI)
    • Digital magazines and the irreverent writer in an editorial wasteland
    • The book is a very damaged product: publishers and book market
    • Belonging relationships that lead to editorial projects: Elegant Havana, second era








  • ART AND CENSORSHIP

    • Literature and dissidence in Cuba
    • Memory, revolution and future
    • Crossroads between art and activism
    • Surviving: Testimony of censorship, repudiation and exile
    • The Criminalization of Art in the Cuban State
    • Resistance zones: displacing authority from the interstices
    • Institutionality and Cultural Policies in Cuba
    • Art-de: the speech of the street vs. state of the whole
    • Diásporas: literature as an agency against the totalitarian state
    • Power and Culture in Cuba








  • INDEPENDENT PRESS

    • Relationship Metrics vs. mass media
    • Free Press, Human Rights and Civil Society in Cuba








  • CIVIC PROJECTS

    • Cuban historical memory vs. totalitarianism
    • A life of criticism and opposition to the Cuban regime
    • Convivencia: Think of a nation where we all fit in
    • Civic projects in the Cuba of the nineties
    • Autonomy and Activism in Cuba
    • Civil Society and State Violence
    • Power, hegemony and dissidence in post-59 Cuba








  • CINEMA

      II INSTAR FILM FESTIVAL:
    • Performance and self-representation: the young Cuban cinema of the '80s
    • The PM case: Cinema, power and censorship

    • IV INSTAR FILM FESTIVAL:
    • Emmanuel Martín: independent and underground cinema
    • The cinema of Miñuca Villaverde
    • The cinema of Fernando Villaverde
    • Carlos Melián: the expression without territory

    • V INSTAR FILM FESTIVAL:
    • The cinema of Heidi Hassan
    • The cinema of Lazaro Gonzalez
    • The cinema of Alejandro Alonso








  • 2020

    • Chapter 8. Kirenia Yalit Núñez Pérez
    • Chapter 7. Michel Matos
    • Chapter 6. Samuel Riera
    • Chapter 5. Laritza Diversent
    • Chapter 4. Luis Dener
    • Chapter 3. David D Omni
    • Chapter 2. Reinaldo Escobar
    • Chapter 1. Sandra Ceballos