After its cultural program stopped following the shutdown of the National Power Grid and the battering of Hurricane Oscar in the eastern region, the 22nd International Crafts Fair IBEROARTE reopens its doors today in this city.

Despite the collapse of the Cuban power grid and the landfall of Hurricane Oscar, President Miguel Diaz-Canel posted a message on X recalling that Sunday marked Cuban Culture Day.
His text also has words of praise for those “who went out to achieve independence 156 years ago”.

In the context of the Cuban Culture Conference, the popular Cuban band Arnaldo y su Talismán visited the Máximo Gómez Polytechnic in the municipality of Baní, the the Dominican Republic’s province of Peravia, to talk about the evolution of Cuban music.

Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater, from US, and the Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (LADC) company, the Ballet Beyond Borders (BBB) HAVANA festival will return to Havana, to be held from January 7 to 11, 2025.

As part of the celebrations organized by the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT) to salute the 63rd anniversary of its educational programs, a brain child of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, and the Cuban Culture Conference, the island’s prison system hosted its 2nd National Book Festival, enjoyed by inmates and their families, as well as by prison officers and staff members and teachers and students from schools in nearby communities.

The screening of director Jorge Luis Sánchez’s 2015 film Cuba libre—an approach to Cuban history from the perspective of two children, Samuel and Simon—marked the beginning of the 1st Cuban Film Festival, held in Washington, U.S.A.

Dedicated to the culture of the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the 22nd edition of the International Crafts Fair Iberoarte 2024 began in Holguin and will take place until October 22 with a varied program of activities.

The extraordinary legacy of Russian soprano and pedagogue Mariana de Gonitch (1900-1993), a dear friend of the Cuban Revolution, will be remembered during the cultural day between the two nations, which will be held in Havana on Oct. 14-18.

Here is the following statement from the Cuban Institute of Music

To celebrate the 28th International Ballet Festival of Havana “Alicia Alonso”, to be held October 28 to November 10 in Havana, not only dance will be the protagonist, but there will be collateral activities where other artistic manifestations will prevail.

Since she was a fifth grader, Ana Beatriz González León, a student at the Alfredo Velázquez Carcasés Dance School in the province of Guantánamo, has seen with regret many of her classmates drop out of art courses as a result of the U.S. blockade of Cuba, enforced since 1962 and responsible for the lack of required school supplies, the food shortages and the insufficient public transport, all aggravated since.

The 25th French Film Festival in Cuba opens its doors today with an exhibition of posters dedicated to the anniversary of this event in the country and the screening of the film November (2022).

 The Anglo-Hispanic-Mexican University (UAHM) will confer this Friday an honorary doctorate to Lizt Alfonso, Jorge Perugorria, Carlos Alberto Cremata, Roberto Fabelo and Manuel Mendive, in recognition of “decades of dedication, taking the name of Cuba to the highest level”.

Five outstanding Cuban artists will be granted the Honoris Causa degrees by the Anglohispanomexicana( www.uahm.org) University (UAHM) .