The Cuban traditional music group Septeto Santiaguero will give a concert on Friday at the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Theater of Bogotá, to promote its album No quiero llanto: Tributo a los Compadres.

The Faculty of Telecommunications and Electronics of the Jose Antonio Echeverria Technological University of Havana (CUJAE by its Spanish acronym) will be officially inaugurated next Monday.

The Alma Mater Award, highest distinction given by the Federation of University Students (FEU) was given on Thursday to prima bellerina assoluta Alicia Alonso at the Ignacio Agramonte Plaza at the University of Havana.

Amor y Amistad (Love and Friendship), is the title of the concert that Cuban singer Omara Portuondo will give on September 17 at the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Theater in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of a tour she began in June.

Jorge Perugorría, one of the most acclaimed actors of Cuban cinematography, will be awarded the City of Huelva Prize in the 42nd edition of the Ibero-American Film Festival of that Spanish province, according to a press release of the event.

An exhibition in Havana by a group of 34 artists and poets is marking the one hundredth year of the proclamation of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre as Cuba´s Patron Saint.

Actor and stage director José Antonio Rodriguez, one of the most important figures of Cuban theater for more than five decades, died on Wednesday in Havana, at age 81.

A tour of cities in Mexico in October and the preparation of a new CD occupy the agenda of Adalberto Álvarez y su Son, a music group that for over three decades has remained in the preference of the Cuban public.

Julio Mora, a university student of Holguin province, in north eastern Cuba, won the 2nd International Award for Appropriate Technologies, an award sponsored by the Carlos III University of Madrid in Spain.

The popular duo Gente de Zona and Jacob Forever have been nominated for the 2016 Latin American Music Awards.

Cuban artist Milton Bernal, known as the Tobacco Painter, received on Monday a royal welcome by Italian authorities as part of the recent celebration of the 11th Friends Meeting of the Partagas House.

The students at the University of Havana began on Monday their 2016-2017 school year paying tribute to revolutionary leader, Julio Antonio Mella founder of the Federation of University Students, FEU.