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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.
The Cuban Music Institute (ICM) regrets the death of the renowned Mexican singer and composer Armando Manzanero, which occurred on Monday morning as a result of the COVID-19 at the age of 85.
Due to the epidemiological context caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 36th edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival will be held in Havana next January 19-24.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, congratulated today composer and music producer Edesio Alejandro and pianist Huberal Herrera, who earned the 2020 National Music Award the eve.
The TV channel Cubavisión will bid farewell to the year 2020 in a regular way, with good music, energy and the commitment of a culture at the service of the people, reports the Cuban Television website
