Welcome to FNQ FESTIVAL CUBANO!
WELCOME TO NORTH QUEENSLAND'S PREMIERE
AFROCUBAN DANCE AND MUSIC FESTIVAL!!
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FNQ FESTIVAL CUBANO!! 19/20/21 August 2022 TINAROO LAKE RESORT ATHERTON TABLELANDS
Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn from the most amazing Cuban Dance artists in one of the most beautiful locations in North Queensland!! Book now!! If you are performing in the festival, performance passes are now available
About Us
WE ARE SO EXCITED YOUR HERE!
FNQ FESTIVAL CUBANO!! 19/20/21 August 2022 TINAROO LAKE RESORT ATHERTON TABLELANDS
Welcome to FNQ Festival Cubano! North Queensland's premiere Cuban dance and music festival.
Taking place at amazing locations right across North Queensland this festival is the ultimate weekend of joy and connection through dance and music. FNQ Festival Cubano has a wonderful committee spanning across different towns in North Queensland. Festival Director Joanne Fairbairn (Strictly Street Salsa Cairns) has passionately developed the festival over the last ten years, with the help of dedicated volunteers. Joanne has brought a wealth of authentic Cuban dance and music experience to the wider North Queensland community over that time. In 2022 Joanne brought Cara Griffin (Global Dance Collective - Townsville) onto the committee ensuring a truly united North Queensland team. The festival strives to bring the very best instructors and musicians of Cuban Dance to explore the rich history, spirituality, musicality, dance and cultural bounty this incredible country has to offer.
In 2022 FNQ Festival Cubano will take place in the beautiful Lake Tinaroo! Instructors Christina Monneron, Israel Ortiz-Castellanos, Airagdin Pavon El Moro and Kent Windress will lead an amazing array of workshops and events over the weekend.
Musical acts and additional experiences to be announced! Stay Tuned!
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE 2022
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 2022!
SATURDAY 19/8
10am till 11am Rumba
11:15 till 12:15 Son / Musicality Styling to enhance your Salsa
LUNCH
1:15 till 2:15 Casino
2:30 till 3:30 Rueda De Casino
SUNDAY 20/8
10:30 till 11:30 Afro Cuban Yoruba
11:45 till 12:45 Afro Cuban Arara
LUNCH
1:45 till 2:45 Franco Hatiano
Farewell Circle and Closing of the Festival
WORKSHOP FACILITATORS: CHRISTINA MONNERON, ISRAEL ORTIZ CASTELLANOS, AIRAGDIN PAVON MORE 'EL MORO' and more to be announced!!
**PLEASE NOTE: FULL SCHEDULE AND PARTY DETAILS TO COME**
MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS
Airagdin Pavon More “El Moro”
Airagdin Pavon More “El Moro”
Airagdin Pavon More “El Moro”
Sydney / Cuba
Known as “El Moro”, he was born in Havana, Cuba. He studied dance at the Academia Nacional de Narsico Medina, Havana and performed with many prestigious Cuban Dance Companies including JJ, La Giraldilla, Ballet Folklorico de la Havana, Marrabenta, Raices Profundas and Oriki, which toured to France and Mexico. He was first solo dancer and choreographer with “Havana Nights”, one of the largest independently produced shows ever to leave Cuba, touring extensively throughout Mexico, Central Europe, Scandinavia, Japan and Australia. Moro has worked as a dance teacher in Oslo, Stockholm and throughout Australia. He specialises in Afro-Cuban Dance, Rumba, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha, Son, Salsa and Dominican Bachata.
In 2004, Moro established Buena Vista Dance, to teach Cuban Dance and promote Cuban culture in Australia. He has choreographed and performed in various shows, including Cuban Folkloric Company, World Salsa Congress, Afro-Cuban Express, and NZ Pacific Salsa Congress. In 2009 he also won the Sydney and Melbourne Bachata Championships, Professional Division with his partner Alegria. In 2009, Buena Vista Dance won the National Cubamemucho Salsa Rueda Competition in Melbourne, in which Moro choreographed, directed and performed. The group went on to represent Australia at the Cubamemucho 2010 World Rueda Championships in Munich, where they were placed third. In 2010 he and his partner won the Australian Bachata Championship.
He currently teaches regularly in Sydney, runs workshops and performs in Festivals throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
Christina Monneron
Airagdin Pavon More “El Moro”
Airagdin Pavon More “El Moro”
Gold Coast
Mauritian-born Christina studied with a principal artist of Cuba’s National Folkloric Dance Group in Sweden in 1996, beginning a journey that included participation in an intensive Afro-Cuban workshop held in Denmark and joining a dance troupe and dancing Afro-Cuban and Popular Cuban rhythms (salsa, cha cha cha, mambo, conga) all over Scandinavia.
She joined a cultural exchange program in Havana in 1998 where she studied AfroCuban dance, Yoruba spirituality and Santeria religion which led to her full initiation as a priestess of Santeria.
Christina introduced the energy and passion of Afro-Cuban rhythms to Australia in 1999 under the banner Cuban Dance Academy in Melbourne, which included hosting Cubamemucho, Australia’s first International Cuban Dance Congress in September 2009 and organising annual Culture, Dance & Music Tours to Cuba.
In 2010, Christina followed a call to community development work in arts & culture, especially fostering cross-cultural relations, first on the mid north coast of NSW, where she was named Coffs Harbour’s inaugural International Woman of the Year for her work with women and young girls in 2015. She is now based on the Gold Coast, QLD developing her unique business RhythMMM, and continue her ongoing commitment to enhance wellbeing & happiness, through the culture and rhythms of Cuba to people of all ages and abilities throughout Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world.
Israel Ortiz Castellanos
Israel Ortiz Castellanos
Israel Ortiz Castellanos
BRISBANE / CUBA
Israel was born in Santiago de Cuba, and has been dancing practically all of his life. He first went to a specialised dance school at the age of 11 and went on to graduate from the National School of Art in Havana.
After he graduated he worked for two different modern dance companies in Cuba before winning a position in the dance spectacular ‘Havana Nights’ where he travelled the world with this company, performing in more than nine countries throughout Asia and Europe, before settling in Australia in 2003.
Israel is the Director of The Cuban Dance Company (Brisbane) and has been performing and providing tuition for Cuban dance aficionados in Brisbane and on the Sunshine Coast.
Dr Kent Windress
Israel Ortiz Castellanos
Israel Ortiz Castellanos
BRISBANE
Kent Windress is a musician, scholar and educator who was the first Australian-born person to be initiated into the Afro-Cuban religion of Santería as a babalao. While travelling to Cuba in 2005 to study its percussion traditions, Kent was introduced to Santería and the world of the orichas and underwent a number of initiations over the following years. Since that time he has committed to studying not only the religious philosophy of Santería but also its associated musical tradition of batá drumming, and is also initiated into the fraternity of ceremonial batá drummers known as omo añá.
FESTIVAL LOCATION: LAKE TINAROO RESORT
HOW DO I BOOK ACCOMODATION?
Contact the resort directly (do not book online). Let them know you are a participant of the festival.
Phone (07) 4095 8912
How can I see the types of accomodation available?
Take a look at the website here to check out apartment configurations. Go to their website https://www.tinarooresort.com.au/
but again DON'T BOOK ONLINE!!
Contact reception directly on Phone (07) 4095 8912
What if there is no accomodation available left at the resort?
There are some fantastic air bnb's in the area! Just look around the Lake Tinaroo or Yungaburra area's. There is also the Lake Tinaroo Holiday park up the road from the resort with Cabins available.
FOOD OPTIONS AT THE FESTIVAL
FOOD ORDERS: FNQ Festival Cubano
PLEASE NOTE: ALL FOOD PACKAGES MUST BE BOOKED BY FRIDAY THE 12TH OF AUGUST!! Food Requests after this date can not be accommodated by the resort.
This year the resort will be directly catering to the festival. There are no food options (cafes, restaurants) in close proximity to the resort. Most are a 20 min drive away in Yungaburra or Atherton. We highly recommend ordering food through the festival. All food has a vegetarian option. If you have any specific dietary concerns please contact the festival organisers to discuss.
COST:
WHOLE WEEKEND Food Package $162
That Being For 2 x dinners friday night and saturday night.
2 x breakfast saturday and sunday
2 x lunch saturday and sunday
Friday Dinner Only: $37.50
Saturday Dinner Only: $42.50
Saturday - Lunch and Dinner Only: $61
Saturday Dinner + Sunday Breakfast & Lunch $83.50
MENU
Friday Dinner: *Mains served on platters to each table.
Bacon and Tomato Fettuccine with Mushroom and Basil served with a side salad Grilled Fillet or Sweetlip Snapper with lemon parsley sauce served with roast garlic and Rosemary potatoes.
Dessert: Fine vanilla ice-cream with liquor raspberry sauce.
Saturday Dinner (SERVED ON PLATTERS TO EACH TABLE) GRILLED FILLET OF SWEETLIP SNAPPER with lemon, parsley and paprika sauce and Mediterranean salsa COLOURFUL TOSSED SALAD with buffalo mozzarella and balsamic vinaigrette GRILLED CHICKEN BREAST with basil and semidried tomato pesto ROASTED GARLIC, PARMESAN & ROSEMARY POTATOES
DESSERT: RICH CHOCOLATE TORTE served with raspberry couli, fresh cream and fine vanilla ice cream (individually served)
Buffet Breakfast Hot Selections GRILLED BACON CHIPOLATA SAUSAGES SCRAMBLED EGGS BAKED TOMATOES BAKED BEANS COLD SELECTIONS FOUR VARIETIES OF CEREALS NATURAL YOGHURT TWO VARIETIES OF TINNED FRUITS WHOLE SEASONAL FRUITS WHITE AND BROWN BREADS FOR TOAST SPREADS
Lunch: Selection of rolls and wraps
CONTACT DETAILS
SEE YOU IN TINAROO IN 2022!
FNQ Festival Cubano
JOANNE FAIRBAIRN
fnqcubanlatindancefestival@hotmail.com
Ph: 0423218929