July 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
July 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Documentary on Cuban music, rumba, regla de ocha (Santería) and Abakuá.
Al compas de Cuba (1960) Dir. Mario Gallo
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Al compas de Cuba (1960) Dir. Mario Gallo
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Al compas de Cuba (1960) Dir. Mario Gallo
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April 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Documentary on Cuban music, rumba, regla de ocha (Santería) and Abakuá.
Al compas de Cuba (1960) Dir. Mario Gallo
#BlackSky
youtu.be/QuI_aiDacRo?...
Al compas de Cuba (1960) Dir. Mario Gallo
#BlackSky
youtu.be/QuI_aiDacRo?...
#GenreRoulette
#WorldMusicThursday
Yoruba Andabo with Sergio Larinaga from Cuba/ Abakuá
I leave also an explanation about the ñañigos or the Abakuá society in English.
This could be good too for #ShallWeDance2025
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#WorldMusicThursday
Yoruba Andabo with Sergio Larinaga from Cuba/ Abakuá
I leave also an explanation about the ñañigos or the Abakuá society in English.
This could be good too for #ShallWeDance2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaku%C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL0_...
September 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#GenreRoulette
#WorldMusicThursday
Yoruba Andabo with Sergio Larinaga from Cuba/ Abakuá
I leave also an explanation about the ñañigos or the Abakuá society in English.
This could be good too for #ShallWeDance2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaku%C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL0_...
#WorldMusicThursday
Yoruba Andabo with Sergio Larinaga from Cuba/ Abakuá
I leave also an explanation about the ñañigos or the Abakuá society in English.
This could be good too for #ShallWeDance2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaku%C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL0_...
otra rescatada se suma a la lista. blanco y negro. sin consuelo. Belkis Ayón no ilustra el mito Abakuá: lo habita hasta volverlo insoportable. sikán mira desde el lugar del silencio impuesto. no hay salida, solo permanencia. ahí sigue estando su potencia política.
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January 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
otra rescatada se suma a la lista. blanco y negro. sin consuelo. Belkis Ayón no ilustra el mito Abakuá: lo habita hasta volverlo insoportable. sikán mira desde el lugar del silencio impuesto. no hay salida, solo permanencia. ahí sigue estando su potencia política.
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July 2017. Belkis Ayón exhibition Nkame: A Retrospective of her Art, held at El Museo del Barrio in New York City.
#Printmaker #BelkisAyón #Sykán #Abakuá @elmuseo.bsky.social
#Printmaker #BelkisAyón #Sykán #Abakuá @elmuseo.bsky.social
July 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
July 2017. Belkis Ayón exhibition Nkame: A Retrospective of her Art, held at El Museo del Barrio in New York City.
#Printmaker #BelkisAyón #Sykán #Abakuá @elmuseo.bsky.social
#Printmaker #BelkisAyón #Sykán #Abakuá @elmuseo.bsky.social
BOCA-ESCENA: ESCENOGRAFÍA, PERFORMATIVIDAD Y MEMORIA #temadelmes Margot Cuevas #editoraresidente Hoy Jordi Mani Huesca se pregunta ¿cómo crean las tradiciones afrodescendientes sus propias estrategias de supervivencia? a-desk.org/magazine/tec...
Bonkó ñánkue: del Abakuá al techno y el ballroom
El Bonkó ñánkue una genealogía que conecta Abakuá con techno de Detroit y el ballroom de Harlem por Jordi Mani Huesca
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September 15, 2026 at 7:38 AM
BOCA-ESCENA: ESCENOGRAFÍA, PERFORMATIVIDAD Y MEMORIA #temadelmes Margot Cuevas #editoraresidente Hoy Jordi Mani Huesca se pregunta ¿cómo crean las tradiciones afrodescendientes sus propias estrategias de supervivencia? a-desk.org/magazine/tec...
2024 01 05 Artemisa, Cuba, Postmambo's La Ruta de los Fundamentos. Theatrical representation of a sacred Abakuá act: Emilio Soto, acting as moruá yuansa (holding the doubled rattles) summons the íreme (ancestral mask) from the forest to the temple. Caption: Ivor Miller.
December 12, 2024 at 10:30 PM
2024 01 05 Artemisa, Cuba, Postmambo's La Ruta de los Fundamentos. Theatrical representation of a sacred Abakuá act: Emilio Soto, acting as moruá yuansa (holding the doubled rattles) summons the íreme (ancestral mask) from the forest to the temple. Caption: Ivor Miller.
Spotlight on the Artist:
Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white figures set against dark, patterned backgrounds.
Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white figures set against dark, patterned backgrounds.
January 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Spotlight on the Artist:
Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white figures set against dark, patterned backgrounds.
Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white figures set against dark, patterned backgrounds.
If you're in Oxford, we highly recommend you visiting
Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations at Modern Art Oxford.
Using collography, she produced richly detailed & enigmatic artworks which recreate the cultural and spiritual world of the Abakuá.
www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/bel...
Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations at Modern Art Oxford.
Using collography, she produced richly detailed & enigmatic artworks which recreate the cultural and spiritual world of the Abakuá.
www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/bel...
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Modern Art Oxford presents Sikán Illuminations, the first major UK exhibition of Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's work. Discover her unique collography technique, depicting the secret Abakuá society and the...
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January 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you're in Oxford, we highly recommend you visiting
Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations at Modern Art Oxford.
Using collography, she produced richly detailed & enigmatic artworks which recreate the cultural and spiritual world of the Abakuá.
www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/bel...
Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations at Modern Art Oxford.
Using collography, she produced richly detailed & enigmatic artworks which recreate the cultural and spiritual world of the Abakuá.
www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/bel...
OUTSPOKEN TALKS: ANDREW APTER AND JUDITH BETTELHEIM ON CUBA’S ABAKUÁ: AFRICAN “ORIGINS” AND THE WORK OF BELKIS AYÓN #belkisayon
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10 26 16 Fowler TalkFOWLER OUTSPOKEN TALKS: ANDREW APTER AND JUDITH BETTELHEIM ON CUBA’S ABAKUÁ: AFRICAN “ORIGINS” AND THE WORK OF BELKIS AYÓN : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Presented in conjunction with the Nkame exhibition, these presentations offer an investigation of diverse aspects of Abakuá, the Afro-Cuban fraternal...
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August 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
OUTSPOKEN TALKS: ANDREW APTER AND JUDITH BETTELHEIM ON CUBA’S ABAKUÁ: AFRICAN “ORIGINS” AND THE WORK OF BELKIS AYÓN #belkisayon
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I was really drawn to works by Belkis Ayón. She was a young Cuban artist who created her prints about a secret Afro-Cuban brotherhood called Abakúa, and used its mythology to create feminist works.
They are huge and terrifying but they also compelled me. I went back to the room twice.
They are huge and terrifying but they also compelled me. I went back to the room twice.
April 25, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I was really drawn to works by Belkis Ayón. She was a young Cuban artist who created her prints about a secret Afro-Cuban brotherhood called Abakúa, and used its mythology to create feminist works.
They are huge and terrifying but they also compelled me. I went back to the room twice.
They are huge and terrifying but they also compelled me. I went back to the room twice.
pizzarias não sei, mas no Abakua tens Grimbergem à pressão :)
(Porto Salvo - Oeiras)
(Porto Salvo - Oeiras)
September 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM
pizzarias não sei, mas no Abakua tens Grimbergem à pressão :)
(Porto Salvo - Oeiras)
(Porto Salvo - Oeiras)
Today in 2010s ECM I haven't given a spin in ages: "Sacred music for piano, two basses, drum set and bianoméko abakuá", bought at the time purely because I loved him in Stańko's NY Quartet
![CD cover of Mbókò by David Virelles [ECM 2386]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreieucdtdsfyaa7mbfl2v5i5augpz2cq4fx4wg5jl6ougunwnmzxy4u)
February 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Today in 2010s ECM I haven't given a spin in ages: "Sacred music for piano, two basses, drum set and bianoméko abakuá", bought at the time purely because I loved him in Stańko's NY Quartet
Belkis Ayón - Yo te di el poder, 1994.
January 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Belkis Ayón - Yo te di el poder, 1994.
Belkis Ayón: la artista que convirtió un mito secreto en imágenes de desobediencia
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Belkis Ayón: la artista que convirtió un mito secreto en imágenes de desobediencia | El Mostrador
La grabadora cubana convirtió la tradición abakuá y el mito de Sikán en una obra monumental que interroga el silencio, el poder y la exclusión, y renovó las posibilidades del grabado mediante una extr...
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September 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Belkis Ayón: la artista que convirtió un mito secreto en imágenes de desobediencia
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Last chance to visit!
Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations closes on Sunday at 4pm.
Don't miss out on your chance to see Ayón's spectacular work.
https://modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/belkis-ayon-sikan-illuminations?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=modernartoxford.bsky.social
Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations closes on Sunday at 4pm.
Don't miss out on your chance to see Ayón's spectacular work.
https://modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/belkis-ayon-sikan-illuminations?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=modernartoxford.bsky.social
Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford presents Sikán Illuminations, the first major UK exhibition of Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's work. Discover her unique collography technique, depicting the secret Abakuá society and the mythical figure Sikán. Ayón's art challenges norms and reimagines spirituality and gender equality. Learn more about this influential 20th-century Cuban artist.
modernartoxford.org.uk
February 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Last chance to visit!
Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations closes on Sunday at 4pm.
Don't miss out on your chance to see Ayón's spectacular work.
https://modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/belkis-ayon-sikan-illuminations?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=modernartoxford.bsky.social
Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations closes on Sunday at 4pm.
Don't miss out on your chance to see Ayón's spectacular work.
https://modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/belkis-ayon-sikan-illuminations?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=modernartoxford.bsky.social
#flashback
The energy in this room!
Never considered my drawing a performance until this moment.
About 100 people packed into this hall to watch me at the 12th Havana Biennial, 2015.
#victorekpuk #HavanaBiennial #DrawingPerformance #ArtEvent #PerformanceArt
#abakua #nsibidi #afrocuba
The energy in this room!
Never considered my drawing a performance until this moment.
About 100 people packed into this hall to watch me at the 12th Havana Biennial, 2015.
#victorekpuk #HavanaBiennial #DrawingPerformance #ArtEvent #PerformanceArt
#abakua #nsibidi #afrocuba
May 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#flashback
The energy in this room!
Never considered my drawing a performance until this moment.
About 100 people packed into this hall to watch me at the 12th Havana Biennial, 2015.
#victorekpuk #HavanaBiennial #DrawingPerformance #ArtEvent #PerformanceArt
#abakua #nsibidi #afrocuba
The energy in this room!
Never considered my drawing a performance until this moment.
About 100 people packed into this hall to watch me at the 12th Havana Biennial, 2015.
#victorekpuk #HavanaBiennial #DrawingPerformance #ArtEvent #PerformanceArt
#abakua #nsibidi #afrocuba
The manuscripts owned by the afro-cuban Margarito Blanco in 1839 were emblazoned with Nsibidi ideographs and signatures of high-ranking priests of the "Abakuá" secret society which is largely derived from the Ekpe society.
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www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-nsibid...
February 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The manuscripts owned by the afro-cuban Margarito Blanco in 1839 were emblazoned with Nsibidi ideographs and signatures of high-ranking priests of the "Abakuá" secret society which is largely derived from the Ekpe society.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-nsibid...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-nsibid...
Margarito Blanco's manuscripts were emblazoned with Nsibidi ideographs and signatures of high-ranking priests of the "Abakuá" secret society which is largely derived from the Ekpe society
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-nsibid...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-nsibid...
The Nsibidi script ca. 600-1909 CE: a history of an African writing system
Nsibidi is one of Africa's oldest independently invented writing systems.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Margarito Blanco's manuscripts were emblazoned with Nsibidi ideographs and signatures of high-ranking priests of the "Abakuá" secret society which is largely derived from the Ekpe society
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-nsibid...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-nsibid...
did not anticipate the number of fucking awesome folk costumes as well, but it makes sense, there was a ton of focus on music tradition across the world. also learned there's a type of bagpipe where you just use the whole guy
September 8, 2026 at 4:44 AM
did not anticipate the number of fucking awesome folk costumes as well, but it makes sense, there was a ton of focus on music tradition across the world. also learned there's a type of bagpipe where you just use the whole guy
EL ABAKUA ES EL ENEMIGO EL MILITANTE ENCUBIERTO TRAS EL APARATO DEL DTI, LA SOMBRA NEGRA DEL PARTIDO COMUNISTA ASESINO CUBANO
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August 26, 2026 at 2:19 AM
EL ABAKUA ES EL ENEMIGO EL MILITANTE ENCUBIERTO TRAS EL APARATO DEL DTI, LA SOMBRA NEGRA DEL PARTIDO COMUNISTA ASESINO CUBANO
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