The Cuban film Vestido de Novia, by filmmaker Marilyn Solaya, is one of the candidates to the 30th edition of the Goya Awards, announced today the Spanish Film Academy, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.

Japanese professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka won the 2015 edition of the Carlos J. Finlay Unesco Prize for Microbiology, which will be handed over on December 21 at the capital's Academy of Sciences, reported Prensa Latina.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 11 (acn) The documentary El poeta de La Habana, which includes 30 years of artistic life of the Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, will be premiered today in Cuba as part of the program of the 37th Havana Film Festival.

My career is divided into before and after Cuba, said today in Havana Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón, who will give a concert on Saturday at the Anti-Imperialist Tribunal in the capital, under the name of "Promesa cumplida" (Promise fulfilled).

The 6 th Day of the 37th International Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema began with a talk on the creative process of HBO and the panorama of the US media.

The albums Tributo a Los Compadres: No Quiero Llanto, by José Alberto "El Canario" and the Septeto Santiaguero, and Suite Caminos, by Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba were nominated on Monday to the 2016 Grammy Awards, as announced by the contest's official Web site.

The 37th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema will be inaugurated tonight at Karl Marx Theater with the screening of the feature film El Clan (2015), directed by the renowned Argentine filmmaker Pablo Trapero.

Renowned Cuban pianist Frank Fernandez will perform on Wednesday in the eastern city of Guantanamo in the first of his two concerts scheduled during the 20th edition of the Guantanamera Festival, important cultural event in that part of the country.

With a special concert at Pepe Sanchez Trova House, in this city, the Santiaguero Septet celebrated yesterday its 2015 Latin Grammy Award in the category of Best Traditional Tropical Album.

The album Tributo a Los Compadres. No quiero llanto by the Septeto Santiaguero and Dominican singer José Alberto "El Canario", won on Thursday the 2015 Latin Grammy Award in Best Traditional Tropical Album.

Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, founder of the New Song Movement together with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola, received on Wednesday a Latin Grammy Award to musical excellence from the Latin Recording Academy, for his important contributions in the field of music.

More than 40 artists from Cuba and United States will participate with their works from today and until November 14 in the 5th edition of Visuarte 2015 in the province of Cienfuegos.

Cuban culture minister Julian Gonzalez said in Havana that culture has been a common element and a tool for Cuba to guarantee its citizens´ freedom and peace which are fundamental human rights at the world and regional levels.

The legendary rock band ZZ Top and saxophonist Kenny G will perform in Havana at the Jazz Plaza International Festival, to be held from December 17 to 20, Granma newspaper reports.