Miami, USA, 5 May 2019
Together with CubaOne and CET HAPE has presented Creativas2 , a unique meet-up event that will bring four of Havana’s brightest women entrepreneurs to the Miami Light Project on Sunday, May 5th, at 3pm.
Lauren Fajardo, Cristina Figueroa, May Reguera and Marta Deus presented a topic of their work and its impact on a new generation of Cubans in Havana.
N’Djamena, Chad, 29 March 2019
Announcing our first album, Pulo NDJ's "From Desert To Douala" - a collaborative record between Nickodemus, HAPE & a group of local musicians recorded in N'djamena, Chad. Our friends at Afropop Worldwide have the very first taste of the album with "Clandoman" - an uplifting track paying homage to the Taxi Motorcycle drivers in Chad's dusty capital.
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Havana, Cuba, 16 March 2019
HAPE, Friends of Havana and Estudio50, presented “La Habana Creativa”.
The event celebrated the closing of “Hablemos de Las Industrias Creativas de La Habana”, two days of talks and work-shops, where international experts discussed with the Cuban counterpart about the ways of unleashing the potential of Havana’s creative economies
Havana, Cuba, 16 February 2019
On February 16th, HAPE and La Marca, Havana’s first body art studio came together to celebrate, La Marca’s fourth birthday in “Ponte en Cu4tro”.
La Marca’s art installations decorated Estudio50. The show started with a performance by El Individuo and Dj Lapiz, named by Billboard as “Cuban artists you should listen to” and leading voices of Cuba’s new hip-hop and rap movement.
HAPE Collective’s Ben and DJ Landeep’s music lit up the dance floor.
N’Djamena, Chad, 31 January 2019
African influences, African sounds, African traditions, Africa now… a continent that goes beyond its geographical limits, shaping cultures and styles worldwide, a place where the old and new meet, fight, build future traditions. From the marginal center of N’djamena, Chad, to the periphery of London, UK from old town Havana, Cuba to flourishing Nairobi, Kenya, find the colours, roots, shapes of such diversity… find "Afrique partout"!
N’Djamena, Chad, 25 January 2019
The crowdfunding campaign for the Pulo NDJ’s debut album “Desert to Douala” was successful, with 125% of the amount pledged funded.
The artists of the collective are currently working with Nickodemus and Wonderwheel Recordings to get the last things done and release the album, which is expected for the beginning of April 2019.
Havana, Cuba, 31 December 2018
HAPE Celebrated 2019 in Havana's Estudio 50 with Circo de Solar in collaboration with Copperbridge Foundation and Vedado Social Club Feat: Cimafunk Roderic Landeep.
