Paris, France.- Cuban First Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Martha del Carmen Mesa, has supported at UNESCO the adoption of a World Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications at university level, which would help strengthen cooperation in the sector. According to diplomatic sources, when speaking on the Education Committee at the 39th General Conference of […]
Cuba was elected to join the UNESCO Executive Board for the period 2017-2021, in the elections held today at the 39th General Conference of that United Nations organization.
The President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Raul Castro Ruz, has congratulated today the Jose Marti Studies Center (CEM), which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its foundation this year, Granma newspaper reported.
Groups from Mexico, Argentina, El Salvador and Colombia will perform from September 22nd to October 1st at plazas in Havana, as part of the Festival of Latin American Music Patria Grande, said today organizers.
Havana, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) US singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright will perform a concert on September 24 at Havana”s Gran Teatro Alicia Alonso (Gthaa), where he will share the stage with local artists, organizers confirmed here today. During the recital, scheduled for 17:00 local time, the musician will be accompanied the Symphonic Orchestra of the Gthaa, […]
Matanzas, Cuba.-The organizers of the International Puppet Workshop of Matanzas (Titim) today confirmed that the XIII edition will be from April 24 to 29, 2018, in theaters and open spaces of this Cuban city. Dedicated to the puppet theater in the Caribbean, to Puerto Rico, and Guiñol Fidel Galbán, from Cuba, the management committee called […]
Cuban company Acosta Dance announced this Thursday that it will present two world premieres next September, by relevant choreographers Goyo Montero, from Spain, and Sidi Larbi, from Belgium.
Havana, Cuba.-Organizers of the first edition of the international electronic music festival, Eyeife, scheduled here for September 26-30, hope to turn the Cuban capital into one of the main venues of that music genre in the world. The Eyeife poster invites the participants to mix electronic music with rhythms associated with the African musical origins […]
Camaguey, Cuba.-The French city of Toulouse will receive an exhibit dedicated to Latin American hand made puppets and dolls of the Cuban socio-cultural project Carsueños, based in the Cuban eastern central city of Camaguey. Nearly two decades of work are endorsing the work of the project, completely addressed to handicrafts. There will be a similar […]
Havana, Cuba.-The Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods (FCBC) summoned today the 21st International Handicraft Fair Fiart 2017, scheduled for next December as part of the Iberoamerican Year of Handicraft to be commemorated in 2018. The same as in previous editions, organizers extend the invitation to Cuban and foreign artisans whose work is expression of handicraft […]
Havana, cuba.-Two sculptures of the U.S. novelist Ernest Hemingway have a particular impact on tourists who visit Cuba from all over the world. The first one is a bust is in the coastal town of Cojimar, east of the capital, after crossing the tunnel under the bay, where the author was very close to local […]
Los Angeles, United States.-The legendary Cuban band Los Van Van will perform on Saturday at the Latin Music Festival in Miami, an event that will mark the beginning of the orchestra”s 2017 U.S. Tour. The band, also known as The Train of Cuban Music, founded by the bassist, arranger and composer Juan Formell, will perform […]
Maestro and Choreographer of the Cuban ballet Alberto Mendez, received in the city of Camaguey the Espejo de Paciencia (Mirror of Patience) distinction, the maximum award given by this province for his contributions to the development of ballet both in Cuba and abroad.
Havana, Cuba.-US plastic artist Ben Jones expressed his dissatisfaction with the stance of US President Donald Trump, opposed to enhance relations between his country and Cuba, where he”s presenting a personal exhibition. Most US citizens dont like him, said the artist who recently arrived in Havana with some of his works that on exhibit at […]
From July 21 until the Thursday 27 it will take place in Santiago de Cuba the traditional carnival, the most popular cultural and recreational event of the people from this city.
Havana,Cuba.- The outstanding Cuban jazz musicians Chucho Valdes and Gonzalo Rubalcaba will perform individual concerts at the Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso in August, said organizers today. The concerts, organized by the Cuban Institute of Music (ICM), are included in a program of summer concerts that has the two musicians as one of […]
Dominican singer Sergio Vargas with his orchestra arrived this Monday in Havana, where he will perform for the first time next Friday 21 with Cuban troubadour Tony Avila.
Havana, Cuba.-The Culinary Association of Cuba,FACRC, has graduated 24 Chefs of international ranking in its course corresponding to 2016-2017. One of the teachers according to a press release from that organization, Jorge Junco, expressed recognition for the quality of the group that was graduated in this ocassion. FACRC presidente, Chef Eddy Fernández, mentioned the importance […]
Cuban orchestra Los Van Van offered a massive concert, which closed the festivities of Lisbon, as reported by representatives of the Cuban Embassy in Portugal.
Camaguey, Cuba.-The central city of Camaguey, in the province with the same name, is ready to open the 7th Festival of Comic Art from July 5th to 8th with the presence of outstanding Cuban comic writers. The organizing committee of the event, held in cooperation with the Council of Plastic Arts in the province, scheduled […]
