The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC by its Spanish acronym) will award in the coming days the Operation Walk Volunteer Organization, which since 1997 offers free surgery to patients for arthritis or other bone and joint conditions, despite the persistent socio-economic war against the country by the U.S. government.

The 28th International Ballet Festival of Havana "Alicia Alonso" (FIBHAA) will resume its program this Saturday at the Marti and National Theaters, after the passage of Hurricane Rafael through western Cuba.

Culture stimulates and strengthens the feeling for Homeland; it’s vital and indispensable food for people’s spirituality, and it brings freedom”, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said in his speech at the 10th Congress of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).

The book “Fidel y la Cultura” (Fidel and Culture), considered a necessary tool to understand the past, present and future of Cuban artistic creation, was launched Friday in Havana during the opening of the 10th Congress of the Cuban Writers and Artists’ Association (UNEAC).

With artists from some 15 countries, belonging to prestigious national and foreign companies, the 28th International Ballet Festival of Havana "Alicia Alonso" (FIBHAA by its Spanish acronym) will open today until November 10.

In a post on X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla hailed the exhibition “Cuba is not alone”, organized in New York on October 29 and 30 on the occasion of the debate of Resolution 78/7 of the United Nations General Assembly against the U.S. blockade of the island.

After its cultural program stopped following the shutdown of the National Power Grid and the battering of Hurricane Oscar in the eastern region, the 22nd International Crafts Fair IBEROARTE reopens its doors today in this city.

Despite the collapse of the Cuban power grid and the landfall of Hurricane Oscar, President Miguel Diaz-Canel posted a message on X recalling that Sunday marked Cuban Culture Day.
His text also has words of praise for those “who went out to achieve independence 156 years ago”.

In the context of the Cuban Culture Conference, the popular Cuban band Arnaldo y su Talismán visited the Máximo Gómez Polytechnic in the municipality of Baní, the the Dominican Republic’s province of Peravia, to talk about the evolution of Cuban music.

Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theater, from US, and the Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (LADC) company, the Ballet Beyond Borders (BBB) HAVANA festival will return to Havana, to be held from January 7 to 11, 2025.

As part of the celebrations organized by the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT) to salute the 63rd anniversary of its educational programs, a brain child of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, and the Cuban Culture Conference, the island’s prison system hosted its 2nd National Book Festival, enjoyed by inmates and their families, as well as by prison officers and staff members and teachers and students from schools in nearby communities.

The screening of director Jorge Luis Sánchez’s 2015 film Cuba libre—an approach to Cuban history from the perspective of two children, Samuel and Simon—marked the beginning of the 1st Cuban Film Festival, held in Washington, U.S.A.

Dedicated to the culture of the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the 22nd edition of the International Crafts Fair Iberoarte 2024 began in Holguin and will take place until October 22 with a varied program of activities.

The extraordinary legacy of Russian soprano and pedagogue Mariana de Gonitch (1900-1993), a dear friend of the Cuban Revolution, will be remembered during the cultural day between the two nations, which will be held in Havana on Oct. 14-18.