The Romerias de Mayo ("May Pilgrimages"), World Festival of Artistic Youth that is held annually in Holguin(eastern Cuba) on May 2-8, began this Sunday night, online, with a concert previous to the event, starred by creators belonging to the vanguard of the young art in Cuba.

A pandemic-ravaged world celebrates today World Dance Day 2021 with dancers, choreographers and audiences convinced of dance’s balsamic capacity.

After meeting on Wednesday at the National Council of Performing Arts (CNAE), the jury in charge of granting the National Dance Award 2021 decided to name Grand Maître Laura Alonso as the winner of the award.

With thanks to the Cuban and Spanish audiences of the 29th Festival La Huella de España, Viengsay Valdés, chairperson of the event and general director of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) brought to a close the first online edition of the acclaimed event.

Critics in this province described as successful the Growing up Reading campaign promoted by the Grafomanía Literary Project to cultivate reading habits among people of all ages and promote a number of local, national and foreign authors.

The XXIX edition of the event, dedicated this year to Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso and designed to highlight the links between Spanish and Cuban culture, starts today online with the presentation Spain’s Influence on Cuba: Past, Present and Future by Jorge Peralta, the cultural attaché of the Spanish Embassy.

The XI Environmental Film Festival of Gibara, Jibarama 2021, begins today in this coastal city of the province of Holguin, mostly on digital platforms and media.

On the premise that all creators should feel part of a project like the Trinidad Biennial, the ninth edition of this event kicked off online Thursday, intended to use the visual arts and the intimacy of isolated beings to look at contemporary global challenges.

Diversifying tourist and artistic products, creating new projects and cultural routes, and strengthening the alliances with other countries are among the main topics of the Culture-Tourism agreement in the province of Holguin.

Through new partnerships between audiovisual creation crews and the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC by its Spanish acronym), a trio of filmmaking projects will be presented to the audience, after the impasse created by the pandemic in the country.

The Latin Institute of Music (ILM) will release in November this year a piece called Alicia's Fantasy, composed for violin and orchestra by Daniel Martin Subiaut, president of the said institution and the Batuta Prize Organization.

The Sauto Theater, a National Monument, with the discretion that the times demand, celebrates its 158th anniversary today, and recalls a date that marked a milestone in the history of architecture and the arts in this western city, said Kalec Acosta, director of the institution.

A permanent hall was opened on Sunday at the Puppet Theater Museum El Arca by Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar and Reynaldo García Zapata, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the capital and Governor of Havana, respectively.

Cuba is committed to culture as a driver of sustainable development, the permanent mission of this Caribbean country to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) said today on Twitter.