On December 11, a gala to be held at Havana’s Ignacio Cervantes concert hall with Cuban singers and musicians will pay tribute to the mythical Yma Súmac, the Peruvian singer and Inca princess who conquered the world with her prodigious voice range and combined like no other her country’s traditional music with Caribbean and foreign rhythms.

The 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana (FINCL), which opened its doors on December 5 in this city, pays homage to the Cuban cartoonist, comic strip artist and screenwriter Juan Padron (1947-2020) with the presentation of producer Aramís Acosta’s book De historietas y animaciones: la vida de Juan Padrón (On cartoons and animated stories: the life of Juan Padrón) in honor of the creator of the Cuban character Elpidio Valdés.

Under the slogan "Live cinema, live cinema", Havana will host from today the 45th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema (FINCL by its Spanish acronym), a reference of audiovisual creation to make visible the reality of the continent.
The Argentine feature film "Sundays More People Die", by Iair Said, will be the film to be screened at the opening ceremony at the Charles Chaplin cinema in Havana.

The first two episodes of the TV series Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of solitude), produced by the Netflix platform and based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), will be released in Havana on December 6, in the context of the 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

The collective exhibition Por un mundo mejor (For a better world) by 12 painters of the Bayate Group, will be displayed until December 30 at the Indigo Art Gallery, a center in Philadelphia, U.S.A, specialized in popular art.

The II Workshop on International Project Management of the Latin American Center for Studies in Pedagogical Epistemology Studies “Paulo Freire” (CESPE) opened its doors in this city.

The musically creative city of Santiago de Cuba will host the 40th International Jazz Plaza Festival on January 26 to February 2, 2025, according to Rodulfo Vaillant, chair of the local organizing committee.

Havana is hosting the biennial visual arts exhibit considered by its organizers as a cultural decolonizing gesture because it show the artistic creation of the global south.

With a remarkable diversity of formats and starring talented soloists of concert music, artists and vocal and instrumental works, Schubertiada Habanera 2024 returns to Havana's Historic Center.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC by its Spanish acronym) will award in the coming days the Operation Walk Volunteer Organization, which since 1997 offers free surgery to patients for arthritis or other bone and joint conditions, despite the persistent socio-economic war against the country by the U.S. government.

The 28th International Ballet Festival of Havana "Alicia Alonso" (FIBHAA) will resume its program this Saturday at the Marti and National Theaters, after the passage of Hurricane Rafael through western Cuba.

Culture stimulates and strengthens the feeling for Homeland; it’s vital and indispensable food for people’s spirituality, and it brings freedom”, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said in his speech at the 10th Congress of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).

The book “Fidel y la Cultura” (Fidel and Culture), considered a necessary tool to understand the past, present and future of Cuban artistic creation, was launched Friday in Havana during the opening of the 10th Congress of the Cuban Writers and Artists’ Association (UNEAC).

With artists from some 15 countries, belonging to prestigious national and foreign companies, the 28th International Ballet Festival of Havana "Alicia Alonso" (FIBHAA by its Spanish acronym) will open today until November 10.