The Siboney Studios of Egrem, in this city, dedicated on Wednesday, the tribute album "Desde el alma" (From the soul) to the musician Comandante Juan Almeida Bosque on his 94th birthday.

Havana’s Provincial Visual Arts and Design Center (CPAP) opened Wednesday the virtual exhibition Sábanas Blancas (White Sheets), by artist Ernesto Millán.

The Palace of the Revolution reopened its doors Monday to more than twenty intellectuals and artists who every month meet with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez to follow up on the agreements of the IX Congress of UNEAC, held at the end of 2019.

 The Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation of Nature and Man announced in Havana the postponement of the III International Congress on Urban Landscape, initially scheduled for May and intended to pay tribute to the work of Eusebio Leal Spengler (1942-2020) for his transcendental work as historian of Havana, due to the new coronavirus pandemic. It will be held instead on October 21-23, 2021 at the Havana International Conference Center.

Cuban musician Adalberto Alvarez, winner of the 2008 National Music Award, will celebrate the Day of the Cuban Son on May 8, and urged all soneros to join the festivity from their localities. In a direct speech made a few hours ago, Alvarez, known as "the Knight of Son", said that a celebration has no sense without the honoree, and in this case this Cuban musical genre will be the center of attention of the celebration.

For the remainder of February, the centrally located Casa del Alba Cultural in the neighborhood of Vedado has a virtual program of great interest for lovers of poetry, good literary proposals and Cuban music.

The Annual Literary Criticism Award announced a jury convened by the Cuban Book Institute and the Critics Circle to select the best books published in 2019.

The Cuban short film Terranova, made by young Alejandro Alonso Estrella and Alejandro Pérez (Spain), won an award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

A space to nourish the soul and spirit and connect the inhabitants of a modern city like Cienfuegos with its French roots exists today in the former Fernandina de Jagua colony.

The response of the university and science community to the scourge of the pandemic in Cuba was discussed much and effectively today, on the second and penultimate day of the International Congress Pedagogia 2021, which gathers online nearly 900 delegates from 28 countries.

The restoration of 10 canvases by painter Camilo Salaya Soto, from the Philippines and Spain(Madrid), located in the false ceiling of the Provincial Historical Museum of Cienfuegos, highlight among the construction works that have been carried out in the cultural institution during the past two years.

Cuban film Buscando a Casal ("Looking for Casal"), by filmmaker Jorge Luis Sanchez, is one of the 93 contenders for the nomination as best international film at the 2021 Oscar Awards.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez congratulated today on Twitter the poet, storyteller, essayist and ethnologist Miguel Barnet on his 81st birthday, calling him a poet who is inseparable from the revolution and shares the overall resolve to continue taking the country forward.

Anneris Cánovas Castro, the founder of Anneris y sus Muchachos and former member of the band Anacaona, urged singers to take care of themselves against COVID-19 to protect their lives and preserve their vocal values.