British director Paul Laverty won the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for the film Yuli, inspired by the life of Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta.

The Third Theoretical Seminar between the Cuban and Chinese Communist Parties was inaugurated on Monday at the International Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party headquarters in Beijing. The Cuban delegation is headed by the Head of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party Jose Ramon Balaguer Cabrera.

Acosta Danza, company directed by Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, will perform in Austria, Greece and the UK from next September 22 to October 5.

Students in Granma province will begin their 2018-2019 school year next September 3rd in the Demajagua Museum Park, site where Carlos Manuel de Cespedes started the armed struggle for Cuba's independence in 1868.

The Timbalaye International Festival of the Rumba Route celebrating its 10th edition since last August 17th in Cuba, was present on Wednesday in the Heredia Theater in the eastern city as part of its national tour.

Carilda Oliver, National Literature Award and outstanding Cuban poet, passed away this morning at 96 years of age in her house, site in which she lived most of her life and from where she wrote her prodigal work.

We have to guarantee the teacher in every classroom, said Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, Minister of Education, addressing the needs and shortages of teachers that exist in some provinces for the coming school year.

Maestro Chucho Valdes and Argentine singer Patricia Sosa will present next Saturday night at Havana´s Grand Theatre their most recent joint record production entitled ¨Once. Concierto Para Dos¨ (Eleven. Concert for two).

The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, ICAP expressed on Tuesday in Havana its support to Venezuela and its Chavista leader in a declaration issued in Havana and published by ACN.

The city of Trinidad has just been declared a World Craft City, after an extensive evaluation process by the World Crafts Council, which makes of this city located some 4 hours southeast of Havana, one of its kind in Cuba.

The Fabrica de Arte Cubano (FAC) cultural project directed by musician and composer X Alfonso, recently inaugurated an exhibition in honor to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the historic leader of South Africa Nelson Mandela.

Several Cuban artists raised their voices in support of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples in their struggle for a better future during the cultural activity of the closing ceremony of the 24th Sao Paulo Forum.

Achieving a consensus on the diversity of leftwing parties and movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, and solidarity actions with progressive governments in the region, are objectives of the XXIV Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum that began on Sunday in the Cuban capital.

Cuban journalists participating this Friday in the 10th Congress of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) will focus their discussions on a renewed press model, their own and in accordance with the dynamics of socialism in constant renewal.