A valuable representation of Cuba's National Ballet Company (BNC) will attend the 9th International Ballet Festival of Cali, to be held in that Colombian city between June 7 and 14.

The names of the winners of the first edition of the Farber Foundation Cuban Art Awards were announced in this capital on Wednesday, when only a few hours remained for the official inauguration of Havana's 12th Biennial.

A huge exhibition of nearly 100 pieces, by 54 artists of the Bronx Museum in New York will be opened at the Fine Arts Museum (MNBA) on May 21, at five in the afternoon.

A group of artists from the French city of Lyon carry out a joint project of the National Higher School of that city with students from the Cuban University of the Arts at the 12th Biennial of Havana, to open on May 22.

The National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba is presently carrying out an extensive program of presentations in the city of Düsseldorf, as part of its first visit to Germany.

The 19th International Cubadisco music festival opens its doors today in Havana to academic events and concerts by musicians from different countries of the world, including the Minnesota Symphonic Orchestra.

More than a hundred members of the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra arrived in this capital on Wednesday to participate in the program of this year's edition of Cubadisco, the island's International Record Fair and Contest, after and absence of 85 years of the Orchestra from Cuban stages.

The Minnesota Orchestra, which performed for the first time in Cuba in 1929, will return to the island to offer two concerts at the International Festival Cubadisco and hold exchanges with students of music schools.

Cinema needs primarily ethics, then the drama and style, said today the prestigious French Greek filmmaker Costa Gavras in a dialogue with students from the International Cinema School of San Antonio de Los Banos (EICTV by its Spanish acronym).

Lucia Huergo, one of the greatest creators of Cuban music, a pioneer of trends, who liked to carry out experiments in music, with a multifaceted, original and very sharp personal style, died in the early morning of Friday in this capital, as a result of a lung carcinoma.

They are a sort of unusual brotherhood; without imposed rites. They are united by similar ages, shared vocations; complicity emerged from years in the concerns of the classroom and the irrepressible desire to create; not to give up the imagination and form the universe, from their personal perspectives and emerging experiences, although many say that there is nothing new under the sun.

The presence of the artistic production of Vigia Editions (Ediciones Vigia) in U.S. institutions was the focus of the panel "Caminos de ida y vuelta" held on Monday in this city during the festival for the 30th anniversary of the publishing house.

Academicians of Latin America and the United States will attend the 1st International Seminar of Opportunities and Challenges for the Economic Development of Latin America and Cuba, to be held on April 28 and 29 in this capital, organized by the University of Havana (UH).

A total of 25 countries from Latin America and Europe confirmed their participation at the 21st Romerias de Mayo International Festival, which will take place in the province of Holguin, from May 2 to 8.