Harry Belafonte, singer, composer, actor, activist and friend of Cuba, died today at the age of 96 in New York City, United States.

 The House of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA Cultural) continues today its special program for the Week of Victory against the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion 62 years ago with events such as Latin American Spaces, ALBA and its Context and The Cuban Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The 18th chapter of the Dance Festival will take over cultural centers and streets of this eastern Cuban city from April 25 to 29 aiming at promoting artistic teaching and female folk singers.

On the occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites, the national awards for the Restoration and Conservation of Monuments corresponding to 2023 will be presented today at the Fidel Castro Ruz Center in Havana.

Havana’s Casa de Las Americas cultural center is marking its 64 anniversary with the granting of a new Prize to winners of literature contest to run April 24-28.

The conference on Federico Garcia Lorca, an event hosted by the Embassy of Spain in celebration of the Spanish Language Day, begins today in Havana, as part of the Month of Europe in Cuba.

The caricature Women, by Iranian author Amin Familbaghestani, won today the Eduardo Abela Grand Prize of the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Humor held in Cuba on April 9 to 12.

Organized by the Cuban Film Institute and Cinemateca de Cuba, the 6th European Film Festival in Cuba , which includes 14 motion pictures from more than a dozen European countries, opens today with the screening of Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s multi-awarded feature film Flee (2021).

The collective photographic exhibition Diversos opened in Havana’s Plaza Vieja as part of the events scheduled for the Month of Europe in Cuba.

Squares, theaters, schools, penitentiaries and public places in this eastern Cuban province will be the scenarios for the 31st Provincial Music Fest—April 12-14—with works and performances attended in-person and online.

As part of an artistic and academic exchange project between the Lyceum Mozartiano of Havana and Germany’s Balthasar Neumann Chor & Ensemble, a unique performance of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, conducted by the renowned German director Thomas Hengelbrock, will take place on April 15 at 8:00 pm at the Havana Cathedral as part of the activities for the Month of European Culture in Cuba and the Sacred Music Days organized by the Father Felix Varela Cultural Center.

On April 15, the Havana Cathedral will host a unique performance of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s famous Requiem as part of the activities for the Month of European Culture in Cuba and the Sacred Music Days organized by the Father Felix Varela Cultural Center.

The Fidel Castro Ruz Center in Havana hosted the premiere of the documentary film Proyecto Experimental Nazareno, by Cuban filmmaker Juan Carlos Travieso Fajardo, about the Commander in Chief’s involvement in Mayabeque province’s smallholding Nazareno, intended to engage scientists in the development of agricultural and cattle production.

As a tribute to the cultural and friendship ties between Cuba and Mexico, two nations twinned in history, the province of Holguín’s Banda de Conciertos (BPC) gave a major open-air concert called “Colors of Mexico”, dedicated to that country.