CubaPLUS Magazine

The International Convention Calixto 2018 began in this capital with the attendance of delegates of more than 15 countries to updating themselves about the scientific results in public health at national level and abroad.

The 14th Gibara’s International Cinema Festival will be carried out this year during the first week of July, in an exceptional circumstance, due to the parliamentary elections process and the beginning of the IX Legislature that will happen in April.

The Union publishing house, representing the institution that brings together to the Cuban writers and artists (UNEAC), announced great variety of titles and events to offer in the International Book Fair, set for February 1-11.

Kono y Los chicos de Cuba was one of the participant groups in the 33th edition of the international Festival Jazz Plaza which close in this Caribbean country. In exclusive interview to Latin Press, Haruhiko Kono, director of that grouping made up by five artists, commented about his experience and the significance that he confers to this meeting celebrated every year in the biggest island of the Antilles.

The all-stars of the Cuban’s music Buena Vista Social Club will perform 11 concerts in Latin America countries with its principal figures, Eliades Ochoa and Barbarito Torres, two of its members announced.

The performance of the Buena Vista Social Club is, without doubts, the great attraction that suggests the International Festival Jazz Plaza 2018 for the penultimate day, a meeting that concludes next Sunday its 33th edition.

The renewed Cuban musician Bobby Carcases, creator of the International Festival Jazz Plaza, stated that the second edition in Santiago de Cuba is a success, three days later of initiated the performances with notable audience welcome.

Guitarists of different nations will gather in the Cuba’s capital in the IV Meeting of Identities Guitars that will be dedicated to the birthday 70 of the renewed musician and Cuban composer Sergio Vitier, the organizers announced.

Cuba participates in the International Fair of Tourism FITUR 2018 which takes place up to January 21 in its habitual head office in Madrid.

Cuba received the Excellency award like the safest country for tourism in the context of the International Fair of this sector FITUR 2018 which takes place up to January 21 in Madrid.

The Corporate Group Flora and Fauna, belonging to the Cuba’s Ministry of Agriculture, announced the next opening of new tourist facilities in Baracoa, in the Cuban east.

Dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Cuban Society of Pediatrics, pediatricians from Latin America and Europe will participate in the XXVIII Congress of that specialty that will open its doors in January 24 in Havana, the organizers announced.

Jesus (Chucho) Valdes continues being today an extra class musician inside the jazz’s world and, in spite of its long and successful career, he always has an ace up one’ sleeve to surprise those who think that they know him completely.

Cuban developers will participate for fourth occasion in the greatest videogames marathon in the world: The Global Game Jam, according to a report of the official press.

Havana was declared capital of the Latin America cocktail during the International Tourism Fair FITUR 2018 which currently carries out in the Spanish capital.

Representatives of more than 18 countries will attend an International Convention Calixto 2018, in Havana, to updating about the scientific results in public health at national level and abroad, the organizers informed.

The Cuban company Acosta Dance expressed that will perform for the first time in this Caribbean country works composed by choreographers Spain’s María Rovira; Belgian Sidi Larbi; and British Christopher Bruce.

The discussion and the exchange of experiences will approach the days of the symposium Leonardo Acosta in memoriam of the 33th International Festival Jazz Plaza, program which began its sessions in the Cuban Art Factory of this capital.

In the presence of the Cuban minister of tourism, Manuel Marrero, was officially inaugurated in this city, declared Humanity’s Cultural Heritage, the hotel La Calesa, belonging to the brand Encanto (Charm) and to the Cubanacan group.

The Cuban pianist Roberto Carlos Cucurucho Valdes announced that he will launch in concert his disk Con los pies en mi tierra, as part of the 33 International Festival Jazz Plaza 2018’s program.