FAQ

What is Una Bulla?

Una Bulla is a website focused on helping the Cuban dance community discover and stay informed about various activities of interest in their area. Our goal is to be the one-stop shop for Cuban dancers and music lovers. In order to be a trustworthy source, we deeply care about the accuracy and completeness of our event data, and we take great care in making sure it is consistently kept up to date.

🪗 Forró SF Bay (new!)

A new sister calendar for the Bay Area forró community. Unlike the Cuban calendar — which focuses on social dance time — Forró SF Bay lists both classes and socials.

What does ‘Una Bulla’ mean?

In Cuban slang, una bulla is a joyful racket — the happy noise of a crowd having a good time. Also a rueda call. Any dance / music / movement gathering calls for una bulla!

What regions and communities are supported right now?

The SF Bay Area and Boston are supported for Cuban dance — and we’ve just added Forró SF Bay, a new calendar for the Bay Area forró community covering classes and socials.

If you’re interested in being an ambassador for your region and have your area represented here, please reach out to us via email.

How is this different from other salsa calendars?

There are a handful of active salsa calendars. Some are tied to organizers, business/marketing heavy, not well maintained, but most either don’t differentiate between styles of salsa and/or they are mainly focused on linear salsa. Una Bulla is an attempt at creating something that is specific for the Cuban dance community.

Why not use Facebook events or groups, or Instagram?

Facebook and Instagram are great tools for event management and marketing, but the truth is that not everyone in the community is on Facebook or Instagram, and even if one is, it’s cumbersome to have to follow multiple accounts or groups, and then digest all the information that comes at you in different formats. Una Bulla simplifies that by presenting a clean, uniform interface to events, free of bombastic marketing, and always up to date. You can even add our calendar directly to your Google Calendar and have events show up there, without every having to visit this site again!

How can I subscribe to the calendar or search for events?

If you have a Google account, hit the button at the bottom right of the calendar view, and it’ll prompt you to have this calendar show up in your Google Calendar. There you can toggle the view on/off or search for events.

Can I add an event?

Absolutely! For the most part, events are auto-ingested from known locations (organizer accounts, venue and promoter pages). 

For things not the usual expected socials, you can also email a public link to heyunabulla+sf@gmail.com or heyunabulla+boston@gmail.com and someone will manually add it within a day.

For SF Cuban calendar: To submit one yourself, use the form on the site — it’s automated and shows up within about a minute.

🐛 Known issues

• Monthly events submitted via the form show up as the Nth day of the month rather than the Nth Friday/Saturday. Write to the admin to get that fixed.

Suggestions / something else on your mind that’s not answered here?

Write to heyunabulla@gmail.com.