Thank you for welcoming us to your beautiful country, expressed in a message to Cuba the members of the British band the Rolling Stones, which will perform in Havana on March 25 in the area around the capital's Ciudad Deportiva (Sports City).

The Entrevoces Choir, directed by National Music Award winner Digna Guerra, will be the only Cuban group to accompany the London band the Rolling Stones during its only concert on the island on March 25.

Renowned Cuban ballet star and choreographer Carlos Acosta will present his new company Acosta Danza with a season called Premiere scheduled to kick off on April 8th in the Grand Theater of Havana Alicia Alonso.

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, along with Sergio Ramirez of Nicaragua, and Antonio Skarmeta, of Chile, joined the Puerto Rican Academy of Spanish Language as corresponding academicians, as confirmed by several media Web sites.

The documentary Bola de Nieve: Sad Man that Sang with Joy, was presented at the Latin American Film Festival in Toulouse which is underway in the southern French city, according to Prensa Latina News Agency.

The Havana World Music Festival scheduled on March 26th and 27th in Havana will have the participation of a dozen foreign and national groups.

Over 50 major representatives of the US publishing industry, authors and agents, petitioned the White House and Congress to end what they termed the Cuba Book Embargo, referring to the US blockade´s restrictions to send books and educational materials to the island.

Cuba's Habana Compas Dance Company, distinguished by combining the essence of Spanish dance with Afro-Cuban rhythms, will debut in the United States on April 22, announced in this capital on Monday its director and choreographer, Liliet Rivera.

Over 400 thousand people attended a concert by the US Major Lazer project Sunday at Havana´s Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Plaza, on the city´s sea-front drive.

Cuban art is present in Belgium with an exhibition in which 16 women of the island joined their talents to honor International Women's Day, to be marked on March 8.

The next international tour of the Cuban music group Gente de Zona will include countries like Spain, France, Holland and Israel, said its director general, Alexander Delgado.

Reinaldo Hierrezuelo, the famous singer and tres (three-string guitar) player of the duo Los Compadres, died on Tuesday in Havana, at age 90, the Cubadebate Web site reported citing family sources.

An exhibition of Cuban contemporary art, comprising more than 100 works by artists of the island, was inaugurated at the Cervantes Institute of the Italian capital, Prensa Latina reported.

The 25th Cuba 2016 International Book Fair closed on Monday after being visited by over 12 thousand people who attended professional, academic and literary activities, and hundreds of thousands that went to buy books in the main Havana venue of San Carlos de la Cabaña fortress.