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Musicology Award Ceremony to Honor Cuban Scholar Argeliers Leon

Mar 08, 2018

The centennial of Cuban music scholar Argeliers León will be marked by the 16th edition of the Musicology Award given by Casa de las Americas, to be held in Havana from March 12 thru 16, announced organizers.

Havana Club presents the rum Tribute 2018

Mar 05, 2018

Havana Club, world leader of the Ultra-Premium and Prestige rums, presented the rum Tribute 2018, the third of the Tribute collection to honour the different elements that are part of the production process, in this opportunity to the barrels, where the spirituous drink is aged.

Drums are holding their annual festival in Cuba

Mar 05, 2018

Havana will become next week the world capital of the drums when the theaters open their doors to receive to the best Cuban percussionists and renewed musicians from several countries.

Genuine Cuba: a promotional campaign runs over streets of Rotterdam

Mar 05, 2018

Images of beaches and different Cuban landscapes run over for these days the streets of the Dutch city of Rotterdam, as part of the promotional campaign Genuine Cuba, informed diplomatic sources.

World Championship’s Bronze medal will be hand out to the Cuban shot putter González

Mar 05, 2018

The International Athletics Federation (IAAF) will hand out the bronze medal won by the Cuban shot putter Misleydis González in the last Athletics World Indoor Championship, Valencia 2008, after the disqualification of the Belarus Nadzeya Ostapchuk, informed the entity.

Saetia, a Cuban scenery for 2018

Mar 05, 2018

In 2018 many travelers, mainly European, point out to the circuits and nature journeys, and undoubtedly, one of the most clamored provinces to spend holidays in Cuba is Holguín located in the eastern region of the country with Saetía key included.

Researchers Worldwide Present at Technology Convention in Cuba

Mar 03, 2018

Some 1500 researchers and specialists from all latitudes will take part in the International Science, Technology and Innovation Convention which will open in the Cuban capital next Monday, announced organizers.

The Human Thing Opened Cuban Film Festival in Minnesota, USA

Mar 03, 2018

The 9th edition of the Cuban Film Festival in Minnesota opened in that U.S. city with the screening of The Human Thing (La Cosa Humana), film directed by Gerardo Chijona (2016).

Spanish Wamos Air to Resume Route Guatemala-Cuba Next May

Mar 03, 2018

Spanish airline Wamos Air confirmed it would resume flights in the route Madrid-Guatemala with an extension to Cuba as tourist destination, next May 29.

Cuban National Film Award 2018 Went to Miriam Talavera

Mar 03, 2018

The Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry (Icaic in Spanish) gave the National Film Award 2018 to editor and director Miriam Talavera.

Cuban Long Jumper Echevarria Wins Gold in World Indoor Championship

Mar 03, 2018

Cuban long jumpwer, Juan Miguel Echevarria, won gold at the World Indoor Championship being held in Birmingham, United Kingdom, setting a personal record and best mark of the year with 8.46 meters.

Cuba’s Acosta Dance Company receives nomination to British prize

Feb 27, 2018

The Cuba’s Acosta Dance company celebrated its nomination to the Robert Robson Dance Prize granted by the Manchester Theatre Awards, in the United Kingdom.

Advances and challenges about health in International Convention in Cuba

Feb 27, 2018

Advances and challenges about health care system figure among the aims of the III International Convention Cuba-Health 2018 set for next April 23-27 and that will bring together in Havana to specialists all over the world, the organizers announced.

International expert considers the prospects of Cuba’s musical industry

Feb 26, 2018

Jordy Puy, co-founder of the Sound Diplomacy International Consultancy, considers the potential of the Cuba’s musical industry like development source, during a workshop supported by national and foreign representatives recently closed in Santiago de Cuba.

A new Salvadoran Colmenita group is created with Cuban consultancy

Feb 25, 2018

La Colmenita, a children theater’s community project created in Cuba and widespread in several countries, will take its participatory magic to the Salvadoran municipality of Cinquera.

A new cigar store is inaugurated in an important Cuban region

Feb 24, 2018

A cigar store baptized as La Estrella (The Star) opened its doors in the eastern Cuban province of Camagüey, a city that currently receives a lot of foreign visitors, was informed officially.

Van Van’s Legacy Album a world success

Feb 24, 2018

Legacy, the most recent Van Van orchestra’s, album is already a great success in the world, declared in Santiago de Cuba Samuel Formell, the director of this legendary orchestra considered El tren de la musica cubana (the Cuban music train).

The Chinese into the Cuban tourism: The Dog Year

Feb 24, 2018

For a city like Havana, where the constant stream of foreign visitors throughout the year is so high, the beginning of the New Chinese Lunar Year’s celebration, draws the crowd who visit Havana these days.

Tourism authorities promoting investments in Cuba’s southern region

Feb 24, 2018

Cuban tourist authorities are considering a wide investment program with the aim to enhance the tourist activity in the Canarreos, a region located at the west south of this country.

Plastic art artists meet up at Cuba with silk screen printing technique

Feb 24, 2018

Plastic art artists meet up with their works in Cuba to attend to the silk printing technique’s Workshop, Rene Portocarrero, as well as to pay tribute to this renewed painter, specialists expressed.

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