The 19th edition of the International Documentary Festival Santiago Alvarez in Memoriam, in honor of the distinguished Cuban filmmaker—dedicated this year to Vietnamese cinema and to our strong links with that country—kicks off Wednesday via online and the Cuban TV channel Multivisión.

The Latin American and Caribbean Cinema Chair of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation (FNCL) and the University of the Arts (ISA) call for the first Master's Program in Latin American and Caribbean Cinema will remain open until April 15.

Cuban artists gathered on Wednesday at the building hosting the Cuban Culture Ministry to recall the legacy of National Hero Jose Marti on a date marking the 126 anniversary of the start of the nation’s independence wars.

The Latin Institute of Music (ILM by its Spanish acronym) is celebrating its first centenary and several online events are taking place in its honor in several Ibero-American countries.

The Cuban delegation at the II Mesoamerican and Caribbean Congress of Community Living Cultures, which is being held online, reaffirmed on Sunday the historic slogan of Homeland or Death, said Noslén González, a participant in the event, on his profile in Facebook.

The renowned Cuban performer, composer and audiovisual producer X Alfonso will premiere this Friday his new work, Dale Conga, a piece that, according to a message at the beginning of its playback, is not a video clip, it is "something else".

Cultural institutions of the municipality of Santa Isabel de las Lajas in this province, as well as relatives and fans, will pay tribute to Benny Moré, popularly known as Cuba’s ‘Sonero Mayor’, on the 19th, the 58th anniversary of his death.

Revenge, greed, social decadence and power struggles abound in the plot of Brazilian network Rede Globo’s telenovela Ambitious Women, starring Camila Pitanga, Gloria Pires and Adriana Esteves, whose characters are linked by crime.

The Siboney Studios of Egrem, in this city, dedicated on Wednesday, the tribute album "Desde el alma" (From the soul) to the musician Comandante Juan Almeida Bosque on his 94th birthday.

Havana’s Provincial Visual Arts and Design Center (CPAP) opened Wednesday the virtual exhibition Sábanas Blancas (White Sheets), by artist Ernesto Millán.

The Palace of the Revolution reopened its doors Monday to more than twenty intellectuals and artists who every month meet with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez to follow up on the agreements of the IX Congress of UNEAC, held at the end of 2019.

 The Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation of Nature and Man announced in Havana the postponement of the III International Congress on Urban Landscape, initially scheduled for May and intended to pay tribute to the work of Eusebio Leal Spengler (1942-2020) for his transcendental work as historian of Havana, due to the new coronavirus pandemic. It will be held instead on October 21-23, 2021 at the Havana International Conference Center.

Cuban musician Adalberto Alvarez, winner of the 2008 National Music Award, will celebrate the Day of the Cuban Son on May 8, and urged all soneros to join the festivity from their localities. In a direct speech made a few hours ago, Alvarez, known as "the Knight of Son", said that a celebration has no sense without the honoree, and in this case this Cuban musical genre will be the center of attention of the celebration.