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Singer songwriters from Cuba and other countries will perform for 12 hours in this eastern Cuban city, during an international festival to honor Jose Pepe Sanchez, one of the country's major composers.

Dayron Robles of Cuba crosses the line to win the gold medal in the Mens 60m Hurdles Final during Day 3 of the IAAF World Indoor Championships at the Aspire Dome on March 14, 2010 in Doha, Qatar.

Unlike medical teams from other countries working in Haiti since the earthquake, Cuban doctors – already 500 strong in Haiti when the quake hit – are winning high praise from the people for doing everything possible to avoid amputations.

“It is a silver that suits me fine because I competed well” were Cuban triple jumper Yargelis Savigne, after losing her indoor crown this Saturday the Doha 2010 XIII Athletics Indoor World Championships.

The Week of la Francophonie, scheduled for March 13-22 in Havana, will be dedicated to Haiti as announced by Alain Zayan, cultural attach of the French embassy in the Cuban capital.

Cuba's solidarity with the Latin American and Caribbean peoples in the preparation of physicians, was highlighted this Friday in Havana.

The next concert in the Port Hope Friends of Music 35th Anniversary Season is March 14, with Havana's Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba, at the Cameco Capitol Arts Centre.

The Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center exhibits, from Monday onwards an exhibition of artistic videos from the Pompidou Center, in Paris that includes work by Jean-Luc Godard and nine more international artists.

The 11th edition of the Santiago Alvarez in memoriam International Documentary Festival was inaugurated in this city, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Cuba’s Film Library and of the Latin American Newsreel of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), declared as Memory of the World by UNESCO.

The party of the Cuban percussion is right around the corner with the 9th Festival of the Drum Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam with venue in Havana and that includes concerts, competition, and theoretical events.   

If you venture into Old Havana, you can't miss the many art galleries among the elegant arches and columns of the restored colonial streets. And, if you're lucky, you may just come upon some of Cuba's top artists at work there, or at least minding the shop.

One of the greatest awards in the world of music, inside the Ibero-American environment, the 10th Awards SGAE Tomas Luis de Victoria, has been granted to the Cuban composer and interpreter Leo Brouwer.

Since early February the temporary hall of the Universal Art Building of the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) opened its curtains for the exhibition “El Pop Art en la Colección del IVAM”

Flowers from around the world will be on display in Philadelphia, orchids in the Bronx will help conjure up Cuba, and the streetscapes of Paris have been reimagined at a garden in St. Louis.

This book on Cuba has fun sections on the country's music (rumba to mambo, rap to reggaeton), food and drink.