The 34th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) granted Josefina Vidal, director general of the United States Department of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the prize given by the organization.

Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (LADC) will perform on Friday for the first time in Turkey during the end of the 2015-2016 theater season of the Is Sanat Istanbul Concert Hall, announced a press release by the company.

RTV Comercial, a Radio and Television marketing company, planned for next year taking two areas of Havana to create attractive projects that seduce people, Joel Ortega, director general of the Cuban enterprise, told ACN.

The 20th International Fair Cubadisco 2016 came to an end yesterday through the premiere of the concert Symphonic Formell at the Covarrubias Hall of the National Theater.

Innovative design projects won the 2016 ONDi Prizes, an award conferred in this capital as part of the activities of the First Biennial of Design of Havana, BDHabana 2016.

The phonograms Caribe Nostrum by maestro Guido López-Gavilán and Eternal Music Chamber Orchestra, and La salsa tiene mi son, by Elito Revé and his Charangón won the Grand Prize of the 20th International Fair Cubadisco 2016.

Next weekend, Audiovisuals ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) will offer a new cinematographic service to foreign film production, in this case, for the U.S. film Transformers 5, directed by Michael Bay for Paramount Pictures.

Political, cultural and academic authorities of Cyprus paid tribute to Leo Brouwer, famed Cuban composer, guitarist and orchestra director visiting that country, diplomatic sources informed on Wednesday.

The Fourth Meeting of Young Pianist will be held in Havana from June 2nd to the 26th with the participation of young talented pianists.

Cuba's Irene Rodriguez dance company will present its "Between lights and shadows" show on May 19-22 at the Joyce Theater of New York, the United States, the director of the group told ACN.

The Ramon Batalla Award, recently given to El Miron Cubano group of this city during the Vila-Real International Festival of Street Theatre, of Spain, encourages the work of street theater in Cuba, asserted on Friday Rocio Rodriguez, director of the group.

Cuba's First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel conferred in this capital on Friday the Friendship Medal upon the Secretary General of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), Christopher Ferguson.

With two big concerts at Havana's Karl Marx Theater this weekend, the Cuban traditional music group Buena Vista Social Club will say good-bye to stages.

Cuban writer Alexander Aguilar, from Granma province, won the first prize of Poetry in the 6th International Contest El Parnaso del Nuevo Mundo, organized in Peru by the magazine of the same name.