The Annual Literary Criticism Award announced a jury convened by the Cuban Book Institute and the Critics Circle to select the best books published in 2019.

The Cuban short film Terranova, made by young Alejandro Alonso Estrella and Alejandro Pérez (Spain), won an award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

A space to nourish the soul and spirit and connect the inhabitants of a modern city like Cienfuegos with its French roots exists today in the former Fernandina de Jagua colony.

The response of the university and science community to the scourge of the pandemic in Cuba was discussed much and effectively today, on the second and penultimate day of the International Congress Pedagogia 2021, which gathers online nearly 900 delegates from 28 countries.

The restoration of 10 canvases by painter Camilo Salaya Soto, from the Philippines and Spain(Madrid), located in the false ceiling of the Provincial Historical Museum of Cienfuegos, highlight among the construction works that have been carried out in the cultural institution during the past two years.

Cuban film Buscando a Casal ("Looking for Casal"), by filmmaker Jorge Luis Sanchez, is one of the 93 contenders for the nomination as best international film at the 2021 Oscar Awards.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez congratulated today on Twitter the poet, storyteller, essayist and ethnologist Miguel Barnet on his 81st birthday, calling him a poet who is inseparable from the revolution and shares the overall resolve to continue taking the country forward.

Anneris Cánovas Castro, the founder of Anneris y sus Muchachos and former member of the band Anacaona, urged singers to take care of themselves against COVID-19 to protect their lives and preserve their vocal values.

The 36th International Jazz Plaza 2021 Festival touched a total of 96 countries from 216 regions of the world, in an unprecedented edition marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced its organizers to turn the whole program to the virtual and television scene from January 19 to 24.

The art exhibition "Oh Havana" was opened today at the Museum of Contemporary History in Moscow, the Cuban foreign ministry's website (Cubaminrex) reported.

Federico García Lorca said that theater is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human, and by so doing it speaks and shouts and cries and despairs. All the more reason for us to celebrate Cuban Theater Day this January 22, in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The 36th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival continues today with the second installment of the Chicago Scene, a project that lays a musical bridge between the best of Cuban jazz and the jazz scene of that city.

Despite all adversities and COVID-19, the 36th International Jazz Plaza Festival starts this Tuesday in this capital city. For the first time in its history, the festival will have a total turn towards the virtual world and transmissions through social networks and television.

The 36th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival will begin Tuesday, January 19, in a new manner, according to the circumstances imposed by the COVID-19 in the country.