5th Culture and Development Congress : In Defense of Cultural Diversity.

On this planet set back by globalization the voices of those excluded start to be heard. To passive cultural consumism, opposes participatory will on the recognition of different diversities. It seems as if corporate transnationals imposes, without other alternatives, the unidirectional message through the domain of information and the very powerful cultural industries with the establishment of life models and the conquest of the fertile creation born on the popular imaginary. Read More

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Earth sciences to convene in Cuba

Cuba will host Geociencias 2007, the second Earth Sciences Convention from March 20-23, with 700 guests from 19 countries. Dr. Evelio Linares Cala, organizing committee chairman, said the event is sponsored by Cuba's Geology Society. Read More

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Festival of young cuban filmmakers kicked off

Some young Cuban TV makers, video makers and movie makers, several of them with credentials from the latest International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, started competing Wednesday at the 6th National Festival of New Filmmakers. Read More

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I play to invoke feelings not to dazzle

The great Argentine pianist Miguel Angel Estrella closed the Havana segment of the Cuban Book Fair on Sunday with concert at the Amadeo Roldan Theater Read More

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One million books sold at Cuban Fair

The half a million readers who have so far flocked to the 16th International Havana Book Fair have set record purchases of one million books, three days before the fair moves to other cities. Read More

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The Book Fair in Granma will be greater this year

The 16th International Book Fair to be presented in Granma from March 5th to 11th, will be greater than the last one for its organization, quality, initiatives and the number of works. The Revolution Square, of Bayamo, the Calixto García park of Guisa and the Céspedes park of Manzanillo, will welcome this reading party again, as well as communities, neighbourhoods and educational Read More

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Womens Chess Tournament in Holguin, Cuba

After five rounds of competition, the 14 women playing in the National Female Chess Championships resume action on Wednesday in the eastern Cuban province of Holguin. Read More

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Free Software encouraged at Cubas Informatics 2007

"Cuba has the right to obtain free software programs in any nation of the world, because our philosophy is to provide copies to the nations that need them," said Richard Mathew Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation in a lecture Wednesday at the Informatics 2007 Fair and Convention taking place at Havana Convention Center. Read More

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First miniature art festival in Cuba

Which art form is not developed in Cuba? Deep in the heart of the Caribbean island are artists representing all manifestations imaginable and they proliferate. Painting, sculpture, music, dance, and literature are perhaps the most classic and widespread, but there are also expressions that are not always so widely circulated. Read More

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Cuba calls second scientific cigar meet

The Tobacco Museum, which belongs to the capital historian's office, has convoked the second scientific-cultural meeting about Cuban cigars, an event called "Havana-Habanos 2007." In order to deepen and broaden knowledge about this world-famous product and its agricultural and industrial processes, historians, museum conservationists, collectors, artists, and journalists of the world will gather here June 19-22. Read More

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