US-based Cuban musician Ignacio “Nachito” Herrera arrived in Havana on Tuesday to participate at Jazz Plaza Festival and brought a donation of medical equipment and musical instruments to the island.

From today until January 23, the 37th International Jazz Plaza Festival will be held in Havana, bringing together Cuban and foreign artists, who will offer their music to the audience in live concerts.

Cuban musician Ignacio "Nachito" Herrera, resident in the United States, will participate at the 37th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival, January 18-23, and will make some donations in the country, as well as other activities planned as part of his visit to the island.

The International Jazz Plaza Festival will hold its 37th edition on January 18 to 23 at Havana’s Teatro Nacional de Cuba, the Tito Junco Hall of the Bertolt Brecht Center, and the America Theater,

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel mourned today the death of Brazilian poet Thiago de Mello, and sent his condolences to his compatriots and loved ones.

Cuban Culture minister Alpidio Alonso praised the opening in Panama of a visual arts gallery to exhibit works on Cuban national culture and identity.

An international and national tribute-paying season starts January 28th marking the 170th birthday of Cuban National Hero Jose Marti.

The International Jazz Plaza Festival will be held in-person January 18-23 in three locations, TV transmissions and social media.

 As a continuation of three exhibitions organized last December, the Day of Francophone Comics kicks off today in this city with panels and workshops attended by guest artists from Belgium, France and Switzerland (Canada will not participate because of the epidemiological situation).

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel congratulated Master Jose Maria Vitier, who on Sunday was awarded the 2021 National Music Prize.

After the respective juries met at the Dulce Maria Loynaz Cultural Center in Havana, the winners of the 2021 National Awards for Publishing, Literature, and Social and Humanistic Sciences were announced.

A heritage, sustainable, inclusive and resilient city is the general topic that specialists in architecture, urban planning, sociology and other disciplines will discuss during the 15th International Symposium “Challenges to City Management and Administration”, to be held on February 22 to 24, within the context of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey.

The art work entitled “Maria Cristina” by Cuban Julio Cesar Garcia, who has his workshop in this western Cuban city, is part of the art pieces included in an exhibit to mark the 50th birthday of the Soho Photo Gallery, a institution promoting artistic photography in New York City.

Cuban painter and sculptor Alberto Lescay was granted the National Visual Arts Prize 2021 in acknowledgement of his work.