On June 23 to 25, Cuba will host the 11th Festival “Un Puente hacia La Habana” (A bridge to Havana), intended to merge the works of Cuban and foreign musicians.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz held a meeting today with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin, to continue the talks initiated in the city of Sochi, in the context of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.

The 30th La Huella de España Festival, to be held on June 12 to 16, will be dedicated to the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León.

Jorge Perugorria, president of Isla Verde, announced today the birth of the forest of cinema, with the planting of 1,500 pine trees on two hectares, with the purpose of mitigating the carbon footprint during the six-day Caribbean International Film and Environment Festival.

The Havana audience can enjoy on Sundays at 4 the cultural show Viva Mexico, which takes place in the gardens of the Mella Theater, in El Vedado.

The 42nd Caribbean Festival, to be held on July 3 to 9 in this southeastern province and expected to be attended by some 600 delegates from Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, among other countries, will strengthen friendship ties between Cuba and Mexico.

Well-being for mental health, development of cognitive skills, formation of values and personality represent some of the benefits promoted by Ricardo Raul Verdecia Sanchez, Arts instructor, during the International Week of Arts Education.

The House of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA Cultural) celebrates today in Havana the Day of Africa, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the event.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez lamented the death on Sunday morning, at the age of 87, of the outstanding writer and National Literature Award winner Antón Arrufat.

Cuba’s Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales en Cuba (EGREM) condemned the recent attacks against the duet Buena Fe, one of its clients, during their current concert tour in Spain.

 Santa Clara, Cuba, May 16 (ACN) “Mujeres al Sur” (Women to the South) is a podcast developed by 11 Cuban and Argentinean women on the Spreaker platform (https://www.spreaker.com/tags/mujeres+al+sur) telling about the problems, needs of Laitn American women.

The International Museum Day was celebrated today in Holguin with an artistic gala in the Bosque de los Heroes in the Sculpture Complex of the Revolution Plaza Mayor General Calixto Garcia Iñiguez.

A concert of Haitian music, rare in that it’s focused on academic composers in a country where culture is mostly linked to folk and popular music, will have a unique presentation in Havana on May 18 under the sponsorship of the Embassy of Haiti in Havana, the Office of the Historian of the City, and CMBF Radio Musical Nacional.

“Isla Verde”, the First International Film and Environment Festival of the Caribbean, will be held in the Isle of Youth from May 31 to June 5, according to the Cuban actor and filmmaker Jorge Perugorría, who will preside over the event.