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Cuban Grammy Winner Chucho Valdes Composes for Haiti

Cuban musician and Goodwill Ambassador of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jesus ‘Chucho’ Valdes, announced on Wednesday that he is composing a musical piece for the people of Haiti. Read More

Cuban music on sale over the Internet

Cuban company EGREM (Music Recording and Editing Enterprise) opened a new venue for the marketing of Cuban music, with the launching of virtual store that offers users through www.egremtodomusica.com direction, reported the company’s managers.<br /> Read More

Casa to open exhibit on America Struggle Bicentenary

The exhibition &quot;De Haiti a Mexico, Revoluciones en Vicentenario&quot; (From Haiti to Mexico, revolutions bicentenary) opened on Monday with works of 11 Latin American artists in the framework of the Casa de las Américas Literary Awards. Read More

Swiss collector donates art collection to Cuba

A Swiss art collector has donated nine works by artists ranging from Pablo Picasso to Camille Pissarro to Cuba's National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuban media reported on Tuesday. Read More

Growers of Cuban rare fruit celebrate 15th Festival

Cuban farmers that grow Guayabita del Pinar, a rare fruit from which a famous local rum is made, celebrated its 15th festival after recording an excellent harvest this past 2009. Read More

Being Cuban defines me, says dancer Carlos Acosta

I love everything Cuban and it all defines me, points out the famous Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, the star of  the London Royal Ballet, in an interview for a show which will be aired through Cuban Television next March. Read More

The Eleventh African Culture Conference to be held in Santiago de Cuba city

More than 30 researchers from Brazil, the United Status, Spain, Colombia, Cape Verde, Panama and France have confirmed their participation in the 11th International Conference of African and Afro-American Culture. Read More

“Pensar es vivir” award for Eusebio Leal and Jose Marti Natal House Museum

The Jose Marti Research Centre (CEM) presented its annual Pensar es Servir award to the Jose Marti Natal House Museum and to Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler. Read More

Adalberto Alvarez and the “son” rhythm

Musician and author, Adalberto Álvarez Zayas (Havana-1948), is one the more faithful defenders of the most authentic Cuban rhythms: “el son.” Read More

The Correspondent, the Saturday Book

The work El Enviado (The Correspondent), by the Havana narrator Julio Travieso Serrano (Havana, 1940), was launched in the Saturday Book space at the Palacio del Segundo Cabo, in Havana City. Read More

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