Well-being for mental health, development of cognitive skills, formation of values and personality represent some of the benefits promoted by Ricardo Raul Verdecia Sanchez, Arts instructor, during the International Week of Arts Education.

The House of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA Cultural) celebrates today in Havana the Day of Africa, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the event.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez lamented the death on Sunday morning, at the age of 87, of the outstanding writer and National Literature Award winner Antón Arrufat.

Cuba’s Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales en Cuba (EGREM) condemned the recent attacks against the duet Buena Fe, one of its clients, during their current concert tour in Spain.

 Santa Clara, Cuba, May 16 (ACN) “Mujeres al Sur” (Women to the South) is a podcast developed by 11 Cuban and Argentinean women on the Spreaker platform (https://www.spreaker.com/tags/mujeres+al+sur) telling about the problems, needs of Laitn American women.

The International Museum Day was celebrated today in Holguin with an artistic gala in the Bosque de los Heroes in the Sculpture Complex of the Revolution Plaza Mayor General Calixto Garcia Iñiguez.

A concert of Haitian music, rare in that it’s focused on academic composers in a country where culture is mostly linked to folk and popular music, will have a unique presentation in Havana on May 18 under the sponsorship of the Embassy of Haiti in Havana, the Office of the Historian of the City, and CMBF Radio Musical Nacional.

“Isla Verde”, the First International Film and Environment Festival of the Caribbean, will be held in the Isle of Youth from May 31 to June 5, according to the Cuban actor and filmmaker Jorge Perugorría, who will preside over the event.

The photographic exhibition "Heydar Aliyev 100 - Moments of Life", a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijani leader’s birth, opened at the Jose Marti National Library in Havana.

Bohemia magazine received today, in Havana, the Premio a la Dignidad (Dignity Award), granted by the Association of Cuban Journalists (UPEC by its Spanish acronym) to true paradigms for society.

“Cuba is culture, culture is Cuba,” said Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Center, at the 1st International Congress on Cultural Heritage, held in Havana’s National Museum of Fine Arts and attended by more than 30 ministers of culture from the Group of 77 plus China.

A Cuban representation took first place in the video modality of the art contest for Latin America and the Caribbean El planeta es tu lienzo (The planet is your canvas), convened by Ozone Action, of the United Nations Environment Program.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, mourned today the death of prominent Cuban musicologist Jesus Gomez Cairo, at the age of 73.

With a master class by Paraguayan researcher Amalia Gamarra, began today in Ciego de Avila the 1st edition of the International Day of Dancing at Home, which until May 1st will promote the traditional dances of the province's peasants.