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.

Cuban minister of culture Alpidio Alonso Grau said that the Law on the Copyright and Performer's Rights, approved today, improves copyright protection, favors broad access to literary and artistic creation, represents an explicit recognition of the work of creators and supports the State's cultural policy.

The fifth European Film Festival in Cuba will screen 26 films from 24 countries of the so-called Old Continent from May 18 to 29 in this city.

The National Colloquium Voces de la República (Voices of the Republic), which this city has organized every year for two decades, starts today after a two-year interruption caused by COVID-19.

Artists from several provinces and foreign guests will exchange experiences and entertain different audiences during the international meeting Primavera Teatral ("Theatrical Spring"), to be held on May 20-24 in this city and other scenarios in the province.