Renowned Cuban and foreign musicians will take part, from September 26 to October 12, in over 30 concerts in stages of this capital, on the occasion of the 6 th edition of the Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival.

Few Americans know that some 150 years ago a Cuban woman named Loreta Janeta Velazquez, wore men clothes to be able to fight in the US 1861-1865 American Civil War for the Confederate States.

The second edition of the International Book Fair of Haiti (FILHA) will be a new opportunity to strengthen bonds with the fraternal people of Haiti, to be held on December 11-14 in that Caribbean nation and in which Cuba will be the Host Country.

Guided visits to Ernest Hemingway Museum located at Vigia Farm, where the American writer lived, are among the most striking attractions within the program of Habanarte Festival to be held from September 11 to 21, 2014 .

The Pablo Neruda Iberian-American Poetry Prize was given to Cuban Reina Maria Rodriguez, an award she obtained for the second year in a row.

The Thanglong Water Puppet Theater of Hanoi will perform in Havana for the second time, on August 16-19. On this occasion it brings the new show called Estampas vietnamitas.

The city of Jalpan de Serra, in the Mexican state of Queretaro, will host the 7th Iberian-American Meeting of Children and Young Poets, Trouveres and Improvisers, aimed at promoting oral traditions of ten-syllable verses in new generations.

"For Shakespeare, Dance," is the slogan of the 24th edition of Havana's International Ballet Festival, to be held in this capital from October 28 to November 7 under the general direction of prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso.

The 6th Iberian-American Meeting of Children and Young Poets, Trouveres and Improvisers began on Monday in this city, with the presentation of the panel La Huasteca in the voice of its poets. On this occasion, the meeting is dedicated to that Mexican region and to late Cuban poet Jesus Orta Ruiz (el Indio Nabori.

One of the most universal figures of Cuba's National School of Ballet, prominent dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta, winner of the 2011 National Dance Prize and the London Critics Circle and the 2007 Laurence Olivier prizes, has announced he will dance pieces of the classical repertoire only until the 2015-2016 season.

A photo exhibit on Fidel Castro to be inaugurated August 12 at Havana's Revolution Square will mark the 88th birthday of the Cuban Revolution leader and will allow visitors to meet a world statesman, said exhibit author Roberto Chile.

Hundreds of people attended a photo exhibit on the stay of Fidel in Mexico while preparing the expedition of the Granma boat to Cuba on December 2, 1956.

On August 13, Fidel Castro's 88th birthday, the city museum of Eastern Bayamo city will inaugurate a wax figure of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was a close friend of the Cuban Revolution leader.