The Cuba-Russia Creative Writing Contest, proposed by the University of Matanzas (UM) and the Moscow Linguistic University, encourages reading and writing among people in the 16 to 35 age group.

The National Directorate of the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS by its Spanish acronym) granted the "Kingdom of this world" scholarship to eight projects of young creators to support through direct financing the work of its members.

For three decades, Cuban cinema has boasted a movie that broke all the molds of its time: Strawberry and Chocolate, which we should always turn to for the sake of understanding and tolerance.

Who doesn't remember the movie Strawberry and Chocolate characters Diego and David hugging each other, their hands in black and white immortalized in an image that has traveled the world? Or Lucia every time we see three beautiful Cuban women in a popular art painting?

The Memoria Viva 2023 (Living Memory) Award, granted by the Juan Marinello Cultural Research Institute, was presented today in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba to institutions, artists and researchers linked to the different expressions and genres of traditional popular culture.

In the context of the 44th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, filmmakers and artists from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Italy offered today details of their competing films at the Sancti Spiritus Hall of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, in Havana.

Cuban film/documentary maker and musical programmer Lizette Vila Espina presides over the jury of the 44th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema tasked with granting the Arrecife Award.

Green light, action! is the guideline that sets the beginning of the 44th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema (FINCL by its Spanish acronym), in Havana.

The 4th International Camagua Folk Dance Festival, scheduled to be held in this city on December 14 to 17, will be attended by 20 folkloric companies from the five continents.

The 4th British Culture season opened Monday in Havana with several actions including music concerts, theater plays and book launches.

To the beat of the musical piece "Por no verte llorar"(For not seeing you cry), a tribute to Juan Formell, the renowned Cuban salsa orchestra Van Van celebrated on Sunday the 54th anniversary of its creation at the Meliá Santiago de Cuba in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.

After the recent closing of the 25th edition of the Week of Italian Culture in Cuba on Nov. 27, Cuban authorities described the event as an opportunity to seek dialogue and positive exchange between the two countries.

The Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) denounced the organization of a film festival for the exhibition, in the United States, Europe and Latin America, of audiovisual productions that seek to rewrite history and distort Cuba’s realities, describing the event as still another attack against the country’s culture.

Havana is hosting the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema December 8-17 with the screening of 199 films from some twenty countries contesting the event.