The restoration of 10 canvases by painter Camilo Salaya Soto, from the Philippines and Spain(Madrid), located in the false ceiling of the Provincial Historical Museum of Cienfuegos, highlight among the construction works that have been carried out in the cultural institution during the past two years.

Cuban film Buscando a Casal ("Looking for Casal"), by filmmaker Jorge Luis Sanchez, is one of the 93 contenders for the nomination as best international film at the 2021 Oscar Awards.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez congratulated today on Twitter the poet, storyteller, essayist and ethnologist Miguel Barnet on his 81st birthday, calling him a poet who is inseparable from the revolution and shares the overall resolve to continue taking the country forward.

Anneris Cánovas Castro, the founder of Anneris y sus Muchachos and former member of the band Anacaona, urged singers to take care of themselves against COVID-19 to protect their lives and preserve their vocal values.

The 36th International Jazz Plaza 2021 Festival touched a total of 96 countries from 216 regions of the world, in an unprecedented edition marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced its organizers to turn the whole program to the virtual and television scene from January 19 to 24.

The art exhibition "Oh Havana" was opened today at the Museum of Contemporary History in Moscow, the Cuban foreign ministry's website (Cubaminrex) reported.

Federico García Lorca said that theater is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human, and by so doing it speaks and shouts and cries and despairs. All the more reason for us to celebrate Cuban Theater Day this January 22, in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The 36th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival continues today with the second installment of the Chicago Scene, a project that lays a musical bridge between the best of Cuban jazz and the jazz scene of that city.

Despite all adversities and COVID-19, the 36th International Jazz Plaza Festival starts this Tuesday in this capital city. For the first time in its history, the festival will have a total turn towards the virtual world and transmissions through social networks and television.

The 36th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival will begin Tuesday, January 19, in a new manner, according to the circumstances imposed by the COVID-19 in the country.

Under the title Cuba will Survive, Casa de las Americas issued a statement against the recent inclusion of the Caribbean island, by the United States government, in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.

Prominent Cuban filmmaker Enrique Pineda Barnet died on Tuesday at 87, according to Luis Morlote Rivas, president of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac), in his official Twitter profile.

The Cuban Music Institute, the National Center of Popular Music and the Organizing Committee of the International Jazz Plaza Festival announce the cancellation of the concerts organized for its 36th edition.