For Guadalupe Covarrubias, a Mexican lover of Cuban trova, Silvio Rodriguez's concert on Monday at the National Auditorium Mexico was emotional, endearing and beautiful journey accompanied by great musicians, she told the Cuban News Agency exclusively via WhatsApp.

Fidel de cerca (Fidel up close) is the title of the documentary made by filmmakers Eduardo Flores and Gabriel Beristaín (Mexico) and Roberto Chile (Cuba) about details of the guerrilla, son, brother, father and grandfather behind the historic leader’s personality.

The 28th Havana International Poetry Festival is being held in hybrid format until next Saturday at Casa del Alba Cultural and several secondary venues such as the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) and the Higher Institute of Art (ISA).

“Music has saved us at all times; it was crucial during the pandemic and it still is as things go back to normal,” Cuban singer Eme Alfonso said on the occasion of the start today of the 2022 Havana World Music Festival (HWM), held online in the last two years because of the pandemic.

A new edition of the Havana World Music Festival (HWM) will be held May 26-28, an event that will bring together several young representatives of Cuban alternative music and artists from different countries of the world, after two years without holding the event in person due to the COVID-19.

The 6th Encounter of Young Pianists will be hosted by Havana May 24 through June 11, a season of concerts that had been stalled since 2017.

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura’s most recent novel Como polvo en el viento (Like dust in the wind) was launched in this city.

Esteban Morales Dominguez, renowned Cuban political analyst, economist and professor passed away Wednesday at 79 from a heart attack.

Havana’s International Book Fair, the largest cultural event in Cuba, which opened April 20 in the Cuban capital is now taking its book offer to readers in eastern section fo the island.

“Congratulations to those who contribute one way or another to the functioning of museums in Cuba,” Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz wrote today on Twitter on the occasion International Museum Day.

The oldest active international event of Cuban theater began its program of performances, learning opportunities and twinning events under a new name, FESTITIM, or Festitaller Internacional de Títeres de Matanzas (International Festival/Workshop of Puppeteering), which includes workshops for professionals and amateurs, theoretical talks, keynote lectures and world premieres and is attended by performers from Mexico, Dominican Republic, Czech Republic, Canada, Puerto Rico and the host Cuba.

The French ambassador to Cuba, Patrice Paoli, reported on the rescheduling of dance performances and other activities as part of the current month of French Culture on the island.

The Cuba Vive gala, featuring Cuban pianist Nachito Herrera, opened the Cubadisco 2022 International Music Festival in Havana.