The director of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), Viengsay Valdes, has invited all dance companies in her country to join the same purpose: paying tribute to great ballerina Alicia Alonso.

Cuban National Craft Fair opened today in Havana, at the Cultural Station of Linea street, where it will be held until December 28.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 14 (ACN) The Santa Metropolitana Cathedral of Havana will host a mass Monday in honor of the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920-2019), event that initiates part of a program of acts in tribute to this dance legend, as a homage to the centennial of her birth.

The 2020-2021 school year starts Monday in Havana, in compliance with the corresponding hygienic-sanitary measures to guarantee the epidemiological safety of teachers and students.

With the screening of The Last Supper (1976), by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Titón), the 42nd Havana Film Festival will begin this Thursday through December 13th
The inaugural gala will take place at eight o'clock at the Acapulco cinema, with the work of Gutiérrez Alea, and the participation of the singer Zule Guerra, who will sing songs from her most recent album El viaje and will be accompanied by the Natural Trio.

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, congratulated on Sunday the outstanding Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez on his 74th birthday.
Our admiration, affection and love,' the president wrote in his Twitter account.

The Marta Abreu Central University of Las Villas (UCLV), and the European Union (EU), advocated on Thursday to expand the cooperation agenda for 2021-2027, focused on the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDO).

Singer-songwriter Jose Alberto Tamayo Diaz, known as Jose Alberto El Ruisenor, is the only Cuban to be nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards in their 2021 edition, in the best tropical Latin album category, for the album Mi Tumbao.

Cuba´s ¨Yo si Puedo¨ (Yes I Can) teaching method of literacy reached 77,230 illiterates, 13 years after its implementation within 'Muevete por Panama' (Move around Panama) program, which the Panamanian government intends to strengthen it.

Musicians and poets from Cuba, the United States and Canada will join today in a virtual concert to demand an end to Washington's economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.

With the screening of the documentary film 'Santiago das Americas ou o olho do española mundo,' by Silvio Tendler, the 35th edition of the Latin American Film Festival in Trieste recalls today Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez.

Cuba´s University of Oriente (UO), in Santiago de Cuba province, announced that it climbed four seats in the QS Latin America University Ranking 2021, as it appears 87th.
The official Twitter account of the UO released the news, which has been shared by hundreds of students and personalities demonstrating their pride in that institution.

Acosta Danza, under direction of Cuban leading dancer Carlos Acosta, will participate next October 29 in the celebration of the World Ballet Day.

Cuba is attending the eighth session of the Subsidiary Committee of the Meeting of States Parties to the 1970 Convention of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.