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The 36th International Jazz Plaza 2021 Festival touched a total of 96 countries from 216 regions of the world, in an unprecedented edition marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced its organizers to turn the whole program to the virtual and television scene from January 19 to 24.
The art exhibition "Oh Havana" was opened today at the Museum of Contemporary History in Moscow, the Cuban foreign ministry's website (Cubaminrex) reported.
Federico García Lorca said that theater is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human, and by so doing it speaks and shouts and cries and despairs. All the more reason for us to celebrate Cuban Theater Day this January 22, in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The 36th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival continues today with the second installment of the Chicago Scene, a project that lays a musical bridge between the best of Cuban jazz and the jazz scene of that city.
Despite all adversities and COVID-19, the 36th International Jazz Plaza Festival starts this Tuesday in this capital city. For the first time in its history, the festival will have a total turn towards the virtual world and transmissions through social networks and television.
The 36th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festival will begin Tuesday, January 19, in a new manner, according to the circumstances imposed by the COVID-19 in the country.
Maykel Blanco, leader of the popular group Salsa Mayor and organizer of the International Salsa Festival, held in Havana every year in the last week of February, announced that the event has been postponed due to the crisis the world is facing with COVID-19.
Under the title Cuba will Survive, Casa de las Americas issued a statement against the recent inclusion of the Caribbean island, by the United States government, in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
Prominent Cuban filmmaker Enrique Pineda Barnet died on Tuesday at 87, according to Luis Morlote Rivas, president of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac), in his official Twitter profile.
The Cuban Music Institute, the National Center of Popular Music and the Organizing Committee of the International Jazz Plaza Festival announce the cancellation of the concerts organized for its 36th edition.
Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (LADC) celebrates having received several awards in the Ballet Beyond Borders competition, held in the United States.
The Cuban feature film Agosto (2019) will have its Cuban premiere today at 7pm in Havana's Acapulco cinema.
The Latin Music Institute (ILM) announced that it will premiere in Cuba its 'Tito reacciona a Alicia Alonso' (Tito reacts to Alicia Alonso) cartoon series, an episode in homage to the prima ballerina assoluta.
The Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba Company (LADC) will participate, in early January 2021, in the Ballet Beyond Borders competition, an event based in the United States, reported the Prensa Latina agency.
The Cuban National Ballet (BNC), Cultural Heritage of the Nation, will hold on January 1st a gala at the Gran Teatro de La Habana (GTH) Alicia Alonso, dedicated to the 62nd anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, the outstanding company announced.
