02 · GALLERY
Five frames.
FAC is a 1940s cooking-oil factory in Vedado that the musician X Alfonso converted in 2014 into a five-room arts complex. The Nave 4 jazz room is the soundroom. The rooftop is the breathing room. There is a fashion runway next door to a film screening next door to a classical chamber quartet. Eight events run simultaneously across the building from 8pm to 3am. The doors open Thursday through Sunday. Queues form by 7pm. Cuban cultural policy made flesh. Time magazine put FAC on its World's Greatest Places list for good reason.
Open Thu-Sun, 8pm doors, queues form by 7. Nave 4 jazz room is the soundroom; rooftop is the breathing room.
The single most important music space in the Caribbean. Mandatory.
Thursday through Sunday evenings, 20:00 to 03:00. Sunday is the most-local crowd. The cigar-rolling demonstrations and rooftop bar open earlier. The 24-hour Vedado pre-show queue is real.
Thursday through Sunday only, 20:00 to 03:00. Doors close when the queue is too long, usually 21:30. Closed Monday through Wednesday.
Vedado neighbourhood, taxi from Old Havana 15 minutes. The address is Calle 26 esquina 11, signed on the corner. From any Vedado hotel, walking distance.