Mas Café (More Coffee) is a project implemented by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) that seeks the revival of coffee growing in areas of eastern Cuba and the improvement of productivity and quality of Arabica coffee.

As part of the 40th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival, the 20th International Jazz Colloquium "Leonardo Acosta in memoriam", a theoretical section of the prestigious musical event, will kick off today in Havana.

Over 356 visiting musicians will participate at the 40th International Jazz Plaza Festival to be hosted by Havana, Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba cities from January 26th to February 2nd.

The eminent musician and composer Enrique Bonne, National Music Prize (2016), died today in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, at the age of 98.

The Cuban companies Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (LADC), Olivian Dance, the National Ballet School (ENB) "Fernando Alonso" and the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre, from the United States, won most of the awards of the Ballet Beyond Borders (BBB) Havana 2025 event.

Intended to raise awareness about nutritional security through visual art, the World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations announced the first creative photography contest in Cuba, called Miradas que alimentan (Looks that Feed).

Cuba’s Casa de las Americas has just announced the contest for the 2025 Literary Award in the categories of poetry, short stories, and studies on Latinos in the United States.

Come January 9, the conference Elogio Oportuno [Timely Praise] will celebrate the 95th anniversary of the birth of the Mexican poet, painter, designer, journalist and translator Fayad Jamís at the library named after him in Old Havana.

The 23rd International Conference on African and Afro-American Culture, to be held in this city on April 12 to 16, 2025, will be dedicated to women in Africa and in the diaspora and their role in family and society.

As part of the homage to the renowned Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier Valmont on the 120th anniversary of his birth, his bibliographer Araceli García Carranza Bassetti will speak about the author of Explosion in a Cathedral (Lausanne 1904- Paris 1980) in the program “Libro a la carta”, to be held at the Fayad Jamis Bookstore in Old Havana, where his books The Chase and Reasons of State will be for sale as well.

 Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban president, praised today the work of Manuel Mendive, winner of the National Plastic Arts Award (2001), and expressed that it distinguishes the Cuban people as original, diverse, imaginative, overflowing with energy and color.

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), together with young decimeros, launched the campaign Décimas por la No Violencia (Décimas against violence), an effort designed to raise public awareness of the urgent need to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls through the powerful messages conveyed by the traditional language of these stanzas.

The 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema organized a panel dedicated to the life and career of the renowned filmmakers Sergio Giral (Cuba) and Geraldo Sarno (Brazil), whose respective fiction films Maluala and Colonel Delmiro Gouveia won the Coral Grand Prize in the first edition of the Festival in 1979.

 The 23rd International Graphic Humor Show of Santa Clara, organized by the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) and Melaíto, comic strip supplement of the local daily Vanguardia, will be held in this city on December 19 and 20, 2024.