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Moncada Day
NSCUBA event
12:15pm
- 6:15pm
Friday July 27 2012
Venue: Victoria Park
Address: Spring Garden Road between South Park Street and Tower Road
Cost: Free
Moncada Day or Reveolution Day is the annual Cuban holiday which commemorates the attack on the Moncada military barracks by an armed group of pro-democracy activists led by Fidel Castro which began the national uprising against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.For the fifth consecutive year Nova Scotia Cuba Association is organizing a celebration of Moncada Day in Halifax.
*schedule subject to change
- Isaac Saney - MC 12:00 -
- Nels Larson 12:00-12:15 Bring opening greetings from NSCUBA
- Tony Tracey (CLC) 12:15-12:30 — What is Moncada Day?
- Megan Leslie 12:30-12:45 — Greetings
- Ambros Prechtl 12:50-1:00 — Poetry
- Art Drysdale 1:00-2:00 — Music
- John Kirk 2:00-2:15 — Medical internationalism programme
- Raging Grannies 2:15-3:00 — Singing
- Mike Savage 3:00-3:10 — Relationship b/t Canadians and Cubans
- Nora Fernandez 3:15-3:25 — Maternity care for women in Cuba
- Taped Music 3:25-4:00
- Salseros 4:00-4:30 Dancing and Music for all
- Stephen Kimber 4:30-4:40 — Cuban Five
- Salseros 4:40-5:00 Music & Dancing
- Nels 5:00-5:10 Thank you
- Los Salseros 5:10-6:00 Music & Dance to close the day
Organizer:Nova Scotia Cuba Association
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