The Havana World Music (HWM) festival returns this year, which from May 26 to 29 will be held at the Havana 500 Club, formerly Jose Antonio Echeverria, after having been postponed from 2020 because of COVID-19.

La ciudad a tus pies (The city at your feet), a local development project of the Art Services Enterprise (ESA) in the province of Holguín, stands as a novel proposal for the national and foreign publics interested in learning about the history of this eastern Cuban region.

“Happy birthday, Maestro and friend,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote today on Twitter on the occasion of the outstanding Cuban pianist Frank Fernández’s 78th birthday.

Renowned US songwriter and singer KC Porter hit digital platforms with his CD KC Porter Presents: Azabache de Cuba (La Calle esta Caliente), fully dedicated to traditional Cuban music.

The Eusebio Leal House Route, a new tourist route through Havana that recalls the legacy of the late historian of the city, is promoted by the Office of the Historian in Havana.

The Cuban company Acosta Danza has been nominated, in the category Outstanding Achievement in Dance, for the Laurence Olivier Awards, the most prestigious recognition of the performing arts in the United Kingdom.

“For me, pouring our heart on Cuba also entails reaching the heart of the nation with culture,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said today at the meeting to evaluate the work of the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT) in 2021.

A total of 33 books are competing at the Casa de las Americas Musicology Award, whose 18th edition opens today in Havana and will run until next Friday, March 11.

The book Venezuela: the "threat" that I knew, by Cuban journalist Bertha Mojena Milian, was presented today at the ALBA Cultural House in Havana, as part of the Chavez Forever Day, which takes place March 2 to 5.

The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) inaugurated the photographic exhibition Mujer Saharaui en Resistencia (Sahrawi Women in Resistance) at the Casa del Alba Cultural in this city as a tribute to the women of Western Sahara who struggle for their sovereignty and rights.

The Latin Institute of Music (ILM by its Spanish acronym) is premiering today on YouTube the documentary "Santiago de Cuba, the first in Ibero-America", which tells the story of how this city became the first in the Network of Musical Reference Cities of Ibero-America.

Havana hosts March 1-6 the 19th edition of the "Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam" Fiesta del Tambor (" Drum Festival "), with a proposal of activities that includes master classes, concerts and actions in communities.

The members of the children's audiovisual creation project El Kikirito, based in Güira de Melena(western Cuba), are getting ready to participate at the 2nd International Educational Film Festival (MICE by its Spanish acronym), to be held May 6-15, 2022, in Cuba.

The 2nd International Educational Film Festival will be held in Cuba on May 6 thru 15, 2022, with multiple activities intended to raise awareness of and promote audiovisual culture among children and youth nationwide.