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An exhibition by renowned Cuban painter, engraver and ceramist Nelson Dominguez is displayed for the first time in Vietnam.

The Latinidad 2008 Prize was given to the important intellectual and movie maker Alfredo Guevara, founder of the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (Cuban Institute for the Arts and Movie Industry) (ICAIC in Spanish), for his decisive contribution to national culture which has meant his promotion to development and diffusion of Latin American and Caribbean cinema.

The exhibition "Palabra y pincel" -Word and Brush-, opportune dialogue among Literature and Fine arts in the work of 12 of the most prolific painters of the country, will be inaugurated May 16 at National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba.

The Maraguán Artistic Group from the University of Camaguey, travel to Chile for the first time in its XXI International tour. A symbol of the amateur artists movement from the FEU (Spanish for University Students Federation), the group left after offering a performance at the FITCUBA 2008 Tourism International Festival, in the Morro-Cabaña Park from Havana.

Cuban ambassador to the Dominican Republic Juan Astiasarán termed as successful the 3rd Traveling Cuban Book Fair, which concluded in the city of Barahona, the last leg of a tour of five Dominican provinces.

After three years of his last performance for the public of the Cuban capital, the maximum exponent of the protest song in Cuba, Silvio Rodríguez, returned to Karl Marx Theater to offer a concert.

The salsa music of Puerto Rican Andy Montañez and the son music of Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco will provide the entertainment for the closing activity of Cubadisco 2008 at the José Martí Tribuna Antimperialista.

The 2nd Festival de la Memoria, to be held in Mexico, will pay homage to late Cuban filmmaker Octavio Cortázar. The film festival pays tribute to important Latin American film figures.

An exhibition of some twenty xylographs by paintor Oswaldo Guayasamin was presented during the fifteenth edition of the May Festival (Romerías de Mayo), thanks to an agreement between the House of Guayasamin and the Provincial Art Centre of Holguin.

The full validity of rural traditions that date back to the beginnings of the last century, is present in the Red and Blue teams party that is annually held in Majagua municipality, Ciego de Ávila.

The Cuban child theater company "La Colmenita" ended its tour of Turkey with sound success among the public.

Cuban intellectuals condemned in Havana the media campaign devised by the hegemonic means of information to boost separatism in Bolivia .

Farouk Abdel Aziz Hosny, Minister for Culture from Egypt, heads the cultural delegation from that African nation that reached Cuban past Wednesday, to undertake an intense exchange program.

The completion and mounting in this city of a life-sized sculpture of Juan Cristobal Napoles Fajardo, known as El Cucalambe, materialized a long held desire of farmers and decimistas (performers of ten syllable verses).

The need to save the world from the effects of climate change was stressed by Cuban ambassador to Peru Luis Delfin Perez at the screening here of the documentary "Climate Change, the challenge continues."