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Cuban culture in 2024, a particularly difficult year, was a fundamental pillar of the country's political resistance, for maintaining national identity and unity, said Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister of the Republic, during the annual working meeting of the Ministry of Culture (Mincult).
The University of the Arts (Isa by its Spanish acronym) opened the 1st Academic Meeting of the University Network for the Arts (RUA by its Spanish acronym), to be held until April 2 at the Palco Hotel in Havana, with the purpose of promoting and strengthening cooperation among art institutions around the world.
The Cuban artistic community mourned the death of Silvina Fabars Guilall, an outstanding dancer, choreographer and cultural promoter, considered one of the most relevant personalities of folkloric dance in Cuba.
The concert of the Holguin Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mexican maestro Jorge Vazquez, with New Zealand violinist Amalia Hall as guest, tops the list of nominees for the Suceso Cultural (Cultural Event) Award, during the past 2024 in the eastern province of Holguin.
The 3rd International Film and Environment Festival of the Caribbean “Isla Verde” will be held on April 6 to 12 in Cuba’s Isle of Youth.
The 34th International Book Fair, to be held from February 12 to 22, 2026, will be dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, it was announced at the Stained Glass Hall of the General Antonio Maceo Revolution Square in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.
The 22nd International Documentary Film Festival “Santiago Alvarez In Memoriam” (FIDSA) opened its doors in this city with 159 works, 37 of them in competition.
Over 30 foreign documentary filmmakers will be at hand at the Santiago Alvarez In Memoriam International Festival to take place in Santiago de Cuba March 15-21.
Two books on outstanding Cuban athletes Mijain Lopez and Omara Durand were launched as part of the agenda marking Cuban Media Day.
In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez lamented the death of the famed Cuban musician Edesio Alejandro and sent condolences to the artist's family and friends.
The fact that the International Book Fair has gone beyond Havana since the early 2000s to reach every Cuban province ratifies the will of the State to promote literature and reading.
Specialists from Cuba’s Banco de Crédito y Comercio (BANDEC) and Banco Popular de Ahorro (BPA) will be in this province on March 6 to 9 to promote their services and boost financial education in the context of the 33rd International Book Fair.
The one-woman show Me llamaban Tula (They Called Me Tula) won the Popularity Award at the 6th edition of the Latin American Monologue Festival (FML), which concluded on Sunday night in the central province of Cienfuegos.
Since Saturday afternoon, in the island and in many other places of the world where Cuban music is enjoyment and essence, the songs of Paulito FG have been playing.
Scholars attending the 33rd Havana International Book Fair who are also lovers of The Beatles’ everlasting music agree that there is always a before and an after the four boys from Liverpool in universal music.
