They are called Los Salsitos or Little Salsa Dancers.
“It is really fun to dance with other people and to dance Cuban,” said Kelvin Velasco.
The 10-year-old was proudly wearing a traditional Cuban headscarf, sash and waistcoat as part of his salsa performance at the launch of a new Cuban cultural exchange project in Canberra’s south.
“I feel like a gangster really,” he said.

 Yes I can! First Aboriginal graduates in Cuban literacy Campaign
“It was a real community development approach which
has been lacking in terms of
Aboriginal communities for
a long time.”
Anna Pha
“I don’t think there is any greater gift that you can give to a person than to assist them in becoming literate. I think it is one of the greatest gifts you can pass onto people,”
Jack Beetson told The Guardian. Beetson is local project leader for an Aboriginal adult literacy Campaign being piloted in the NSW
town Wilcannia, using the Cuban, Yes I Can (Yo Si Puedo) model. Tuesday May 8 was an exciting day for the local community when the first 10 students proudly graduated after 13 weeks of study.

 Australia Enjoys Cuban Film El Benny

By Radio Angulo / editorweb@radioangulo.icrt.cu / Wednesday, 02 May 2012 12:52
The Cuban motion picture El Benny, directed by Jorge Luis Sanchez, was highly acclaimed in the Astralian capital, where it was screened at the 8th Latin American Film Festival of the island nation, along with other outstanding South American movies.

 “MADE IN CUBA. Contemporary Cuban Art Exhibition”. Unprecedented in Australia. An outstanding universal art display and a representative sample of this Caribbean islanders talent, passion, rebellion and mysticism. “. There is a strong sense of rhythm throughout this exhibition and the dynamism of the beat of Cuban music that are impossible to divorce from the brilliant and inventive imagery”. The exhibition is going to be held in the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia, Parkes Place, Canberra from April 15 to May 15.

 Humour From My Pen
Joan Coxsedge*
Last week, Melbourne’s Australia Cuba Friendship Society members turned out in force to welcome Cuban Ambassador Pedro Monzon and his wife Celia for their first visit to Melbourne, primarily for Pedro to open an exhibition of cartoons by Gerardo Hernandez. (see “What’s On”)