Popular Puerto Rican salsa performer Victor Manuelle paid a cultural visit to Cuba over the weekend, when he spoke with various Cuban artists he plans to cooperate with in the future.

Leading dancers and prima ballerinas of Cuba's National Ballet Company (BNC) -Viengsay Valdés, Sadaise Arencibia, Dani Hernández and soloist Raúl Abreu- will interpret a varied repertoire in the 10th International Ballet Festival of Cali, Colombia.

Cuban singer and composer Erick Jon has recently won an Akademia Music Award, a prize given by the homonymous institution based in Los Angeles, the United States.

Artists from some 16 countries will come to Cuba to participate in the 25th edition of Havana's International Ballet Festival, to be held from October 28 to November 6, and that for the first time will be named after its president, Alicia Alonso.

Cuban singer Leoni Torres recently signed a record contract with the U.S. Magnus Media Company, a young enterprise that already has Cuban music exponents in its catalog, like the group Gente de Zona.

The CDs Vivito y coleando, by la Charanga Habanera, El más grande y universal, by the Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro and Canciones De Cri Cri "El Grillo Cantor", by Omara Portuondo, are some of the productions nominated to the 17th edition of the Latin Grammies.

The Cuban traditional music group Septeto Santiaguero will give a concert on Friday at the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Theater of Bogotá, to promote its album No quiero llanto: Tributo a los Compadres.

The Faculty of Telecommunications and Electronics of the Jose Antonio Echeverria Technological University of Havana (CUJAE by its Spanish acronym) will be officially inaugurated next Monday.

The Alma Mater Award, highest distinction given by the Federation of University Students (FEU) was given on Thursday to prima bellerina assoluta Alicia Alonso at the Ignacio Agramonte Plaza at the University of Havana.

Amor y Amistad (Love and Friendship), is the title of the concert that Cuban singer Omara Portuondo will give on September 17 at the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Theater in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of a tour she began in June.

Jorge Perugorría, one of the most acclaimed actors of Cuban cinematography, will be awarded the City of Huelva Prize in the 42nd edition of the Ibero-American Film Festival of that Spanish province, according to a press release of the event.

An exhibition in Havana by a group of 34 artists and poets is marking the one hundredth year of the proclamation of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre as Cuba´s Patron Saint.

Actor and stage director José Antonio Rodriguez, one of the most important figures of Cuban theater for more than five decades, died on Wednesday in Havana, at age 81.

A tour of cities in Mexico in October and the preparation of a new CD occupy the agenda of Adalberto Álvarez y su Son, a music group that for over three decades has remained in the preference of the Cuban public.