Cultural Voice

C ountry of Origin: Spain U ltra excited about this art form : Cinema ​ L oves to travel to: Remote lighthouses in remote places T rend you love: The capacity of trends to be replaced by new ones U nderground artists to watch: Movie makers filming with a smartphone R isk averse, Risk Tolerant or Risk Taker: Risk taker  A rtistic Side: Getting emotional about a piece of music L ife Motto: Life is short;   Enjoy and leave a trace   V ery good at: Advocacy of causes I believe in.  O utspoken about: Hypocrisy, dual lives.  I nspired by: Honesty, lives moved by passion.  C ultural Icon: Johan Sebastian Bach E veryone should try this once: Reach a mountain summit after days of effort What's Your Cultural Voice?? #MyCulturalVoice on   Facebook  /  Twitter  / Instagram @culturalvoice Promoting # Intercultural-dialogue 10 Days to the Launch of CV's First Issue of 2014!!  Abou...

Last week the four Jamaican students who were among the 2013 top ten CXC performers in Spanish in the Caribbean region were fêted to a special evening at the Residence of the Spanish Ambassador, H.E. Celsa Nuño. The Ambassador and her husband Alex Crowther invited the students and their teachers, along with other guests, to the screening of the award-winning black and white film “Blancanieves”, a striking, visually stunning Spanish feature written and directed by Pablo Berger. Although the story draws on the Brothers Grimm and the legend of Snow White, it is anything but a children’s movie. It is a full-bodied silent film of the sort that might have been made by the greatest directors of the 1920s. Once upon a time there was a little girl who had never known her mother. She grew up learning the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was despised by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend. The evening, under a b...

Luis Buñuel’s iconic and internationally acclaimed film “Viridiana”, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, the first of four films to be presented to invited guests, was compelling. It demonstrated that what would now be considered a shoe string budget can produce an excellent film. Congratulations to the Ambassadors of Mexico and Spain H.E. Gerardo Lozano and H.E. Celsa Nuño for the collaboration. The movie questioned faith versus fate, with strong religious undertones and overtones adding complexity and tension to Viridiana ’s story. The story of an orphaned young girl who grew up in the convent, neglected by her only living relative her rich uncle and who at the point where she is ready to take her vows, is forced by the Holy Mother superior to visit with her uncle before taking the pledge.  Her uncle finds that she reminds him of his deceased wife, and drugs her, in an attempt to keep her in his unhappy home. Viridiana insists on leaving and on...

                                                   The Zinc Shower event was held between April 11-12, 2013. It brought together some of Spain’s most promising entrepreneurs and innovators in the world of the Creative Industries. The backdrop for this occasion was set in the abandoned slaughter house known as the Matadero, giving it a rustic feel and space to immense creativity. Cultural Voice was in Madrid, Spain to witness it all unfold. Here are a few snapshots from the event.      For more intriguing photographs, please go to our Cultural Voice  facebook page!