The Swiss fiction feature film Foudre will be the opening film of the 17th Gibara International Film Festival (FICGibara), which will be held August 1 to 5 in that town in the province of Holguin(eastern Cuba).

With a space for cultural debate, entitled SENTIPENSAR, the House of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA cultural) begins its weekly programming until next Sunday.

Casa de las Americas condemned the statement of the PEN Club of French writers on the repression in Cuba.

Through a message on his Twitter account, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated composer and guitarist Marta Valdés, who also won the National Music Award in 2007.

is launching a new dancing season as of July 7 at Havana’s Teatro Nacional theater to mark the 75th birthday of the ballet company.

Santiago de Cuba will host from today the 42nd edition of the Caribbean Festival, dedicated to the Mexican celebration of life and death, a festival declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as oral and intangible heritage of humanity.

Jonathan Hoard, a prominent American musician, composer and arranger, visited and praised the accomplishments of Havana’s Community Project Quisicuaba.

The international festival Un Puente hacia La Habana (A Bridge to Havana) will kick off today until Sunday, June 25, at the 500 Nights Club in Havana.

The Cuban handball team lost 28-45 to Egypt in its first game of the 24th IHF Men’s U21 Championship co-hosted by Germany and Greece from June 20 to July 2.

Cubans will launch their 8th Hip Hop Festival in this central city June 22-25 to honor the women’s role withing the hip-hop movement and to mark the 50 year of the music genre created in the United States.

The exhibition Comala, Mexico's Magic City, by visual artist Fernando Chavez, opened in this city.

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.