Cuban naive art painters are developing an extensive program of activities in Philadelphia, US, sponsored by Salzmann Photography Center and the Bayate project, a group belonging to the municipality of Mella in the Cuban eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, which is about to celebrate its 30 years of creation.

The Venezuelan delegation arrived in Havana to the 26th International Crafts Fair (Fiart 2024), which is being held at the Pabexpo fairgrounds in this capital, with the purpose of exchanging with the Cuban public in an artistic and educational way.

Fidel and Culture (Fidel y la Cultura) is the title of a compilation of speeches by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution related to culture, which was launched in the central city of Santa Clara on Monday.

In a homage-paying gesture for ex-Beatle John Lennon on the 44th year of his death, the Cuban band Apple Jam launched a concert in Central Santa Clara city recalling some of the hits of the famous British band.

In the context of the 45th Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, the 2nd Forum of Latin American and Caribbean Animation "Juan Padron in Memoriam" was opened today at the Animation Studios of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic by its Spanish acronym), in Havana.

The Colla is a tradition that after so many years continues as an opportunity to gather and people are grateful for it, ratified on Sunday Loreley Rebull, president of the Casal Catalan "Gener i Guiteras", when once again this identity celebration was held in this western city.

On December 11, a gala to be held at Havana’s Ignacio Cervantes concert hall with Cuban singers and musicians will pay tribute to the mythical Yma Súmac, the Peruvian singer and Inca princess who conquered the world with her prodigious voice range and combined like no other her country’s traditional music with Caribbean and foreign rhythms.

The 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana (FINCL), which opened its doors on December 5 in this city, pays homage to the Cuban cartoonist, comic strip artist and screenwriter Juan Padron (1947-2020) with the presentation of producer Aramís Acosta’s book De historietas y animaciones: la vida de Juan Padrón (On cartoons and animated stories: the life of Juan Padrón) in honor of the creator of the Cuban character Elpidio Valdés.

Under the slogan "Live cinema, live cinema", Havana will host from today the 45th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema (FINCL by its Spanish acronym), a reference of audiovisual creation to make visible the reality of the continent.
The Argentine feature film "Sundays More People Die", by Iair Said, will be the film to be screened at the opening ceremony at the Charles Chaplin cinema in Havana.

The first two episodes of the TV series Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of solitude), produced by the Netflix platform and based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), will be released in Havana on December 6, in the context of the 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

The collective exhibition Por un mundo mejor (For a better world) by 12 painters of the Bayate Group, will be displayed until December 30 at the Indigo Art Gallery, a center in Philadelphia, U.S.A, specialized in popular art.

The II Workshop on International Project Management of the Latin American Center for Studies in Pedagogical Epistemology Studies “Paulo Freire” (CESPE) opened its doors in this city.

The musically creative city of Santiago de Cuba will host the 40th International Jazz Plaza Festival on January 26 to February 2, 2025, according to Rodulfo Vaillant, chair of the local organizing committee.

Havana is hosting the biennial visual arts exhibit considered by its organizers as a cultural decolonizing gesture because it show the artistic creation of the global south.