Bohemia magazine received today, in Havana, the Premio a la Dignidad (Dignity Award), granted by the Association of Cuban Journalists (UPEC by its Spanish acronym) to true paradigms for society.

“Cuba is culture, culture is Cuba,” said Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Center, at the 1st International Congress on Cultural Heritage, held in Havana’s National Museum of Fine Arts and attended by more than 30 ministers of culture from the Group of 77 plus China.

A Cuban representation took first place in the video modality of the art contest for Latin America and the Caribbean El planeta es tu lienzo (The planet is your canvas), convened by Ozone Action, of the United Nations Environment Program.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, mourned today the death of prominent Cuban musicologist Jesus Gomez Cairo, at the age of 73.

With a master class by Paraguayan researcher Amalia Gamarra, began today in Ciego de Avila the 1st edition of the International Day of Dancing at Home, which until May 1st will promote the traditional dances of the province's peasants.

The passing at 96 on Tuesday of outstanding artist harry Belafonte was regreted by Cubans and President Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee.

Harry Belafonte, singer, composer, actor, activist and friend of Cuba, died today at the age of 96 in New York City, United States.

 The House of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA Cultural) continues today its special program for the Week of Victory against the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion 62 years ago with events such as Latin American Spaces, ALBA and its Context and The Cuban Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The 18th chapter of the Dance Festival will take over cultural centers and streets of this eastern Cuban city from April 25 to 29 aiming at promoting artistic teaching and female folk singers.

On the occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites, the national awards for the Restoration and Conservation of Monuments corresponding to 2023 will be presented today at the Fidel Castro Ruz Center in Havana.

Havana’s Casa de Las Americas cultural center is marking its 64 anniversary with the granting of a new Prize to winners of literature contest to run April 24-28.

The conference on Federico Garcia Lorca, an event hosted by the Embassy of Spain in celebration of the Spanish Language Day, begins today in Havana, as part of the Month of Europe in Cuba.

The caricature Women, by Iranian author Amin Familbaghestani, won today the Eduardo Abela Grand Prize of the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Humor held in Cuba on April 9 to 12.

Organized by the Cuban Film Institute and Cinemateca de Cuba, the 6th European Film Festival in Cuba , which includes 14 motion pictures from more than a dozen European countries, opens today with the screening of Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s multi-awarded feature film Flee (2021).