Let's talk Latin America
Let's talk Latin America
Papaya Fest, an exciting new multi-arts festival hosting an array of trailblazing Anglo-Latinx artists is set to be a crowd-pleaser in Bristol this weekend (10th – 13th October). With a diverse mix of theatre and music, it will be taking place at the Wardrobe Theatre & the Old Market Assembly. Bristolatino’s editor-in-chief Isaac Norris gives the low-down! […]
In celebration of their fourth birthday, on Saturday 29th September Bristol-based Worm Disco Club collaborated with Manana//Cuba to transform Bedminster venue Fiddlers and to bless Bristol with a night of musical mastery. Bristolatino’s Chloe Budd reports. The evening opened with Bristol’s own 8-piece instrumental group Tezeta, hailing from local musical collective ‘Bloom’. Taking their […]
Every month, we tell you which Latin American authors we are reading. Taking many different forms and featuring writers stretching the whole of the South, Central and North America, we bring to you a wide selection of the works that are stirring literary interests. This month, Literature Editor Isaac Norris writes about Reinaldo Arenas, an LGBT […]
Bristolatino’s political editor, Hermione Greenhalgh, gives a breakdown of the region’s busy electoral schedule. By November, Costa Rica, Cuba, Colombia, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela will all have a new president (or will have re-elected the same one). Though Chile and Honduras have both just re-elected a former and incumbent president, (the latter on legally dubious grounds) the other countries […]
The global media frenzy and comment that surrounded Fidel Castro’s death has died down. But is anything in Cuba actually any different? Our writer in Mexico Laura Tlachi Santacruz examines the situation on the island. For most of us, the death of Fidel Castro Ruz in November 2016 was an expected one. It was not, however, desired—at least […]
The debut album ‘IIII + IIII’, from Puerto Rican ensemble ÌFÉ has been released. Bristolatino teams up with a range of musicians and music critics to bring you our thoughts on the album. To many, including Camilo Zuñiga of electronic power duo ZYDERAL, ‘IIII + IIII’ is an original and innovative concept. To Santiago Cembrano, […]
Music editor Rebecca Wilson takes us through ‘House of Love’, track by ÌFÉ (Otura Mun), who shares his stage name with the ancient Yoruban city of South-Western Nigeria. The word signifies both love and expansion. He is an African-American drummer, singer and producer who has been based in Puerto Rico for almost 2 decades. His songwriting and […]
New BristoLatino editor Zara Huband talks us through Cuban singer, Daymé Arocena’s enigmatic sound. Daymé Arocena’s majestic presence is a visual experience as much as a musical one. She radiates positivity and throws herself energetically and completely into her singing making the influence of the years she spent as a choir leader all the more evident. Her […]
Rebecca Wilson discusses music as message and therapy, gigging in Bristol and the ever-changing tropical folk sound of Cuban-Colombian band Ají Pa’ti. I met up with Julián (guitar player, band director and songwriter) and Indira (lead singer), of modern tropical folk band, Ají Pa’tí (roughly translated as Chilli For You), as they had just played […]