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A huge Cuban visual arts exhibition without precedents, called ¡CUBA! Arte e historia de 1868 hasta nuestros días (CUBA! Art and history from 1868 to our days) is being successfully exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum from Montreal, Canada) since January 29, 2008.

The National Fine Arts Museum presents a retrospective of the pictorial work of one of the best Cuban poets of all time. I’m talking about Un Sol Desconocido: Samuel Feijoo, which was inaugurated on April 25.

Cuban women and men’s judo selections are ready to participate in the Pan-American Championship to kick off May 8, in the US city of Miami.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called the summit to discuss joint solutions to face the crisis triggered by soaring prices of foodstuffs on the world market and its impact on developing countries

The theater company La Colmenita finished their participation on the fourth edition of the International Festival of Children’s Theater in this capital city, even though their tour around the country lasted until May 4.

The II International Colloquium Cultural diversity in the Caribbean, organized by the Casa de las Américas, will bring together here intellectuals and artists from the region from next May 26 until the 28.

Jamaican Prime Minister Orette Bruce Golding concludes Wednesday a three-day official visit to Cuba to expand bilateral links. His agenda included meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro and visiting scientific research sites.

Maestro Fernando Alonso, one of the most relevant figures in the history of Cuban ballet, received on Wednesday the Benois Dance Prize at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, for his artistic career.

Philosophers from around the world, attending the Fourth International Conference on the Life Work of Karl Marx and Challenges of the 21st Century, discussed the ideas of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

After winning three Olympic and six World titles, which earned him the nickname of “boxeador historia” (legendary boxer), Cuba’s Félix Savón Fabré now has his hands set on conquering the artistic world.

Theatre companies and artists from six countries, among them the prestigious company La Candelaria, from Colombia, and Malayerba, from Ecuador, will participate in the ‘Mayo Teatral’ event, organized by the Havana-based Casa de las Américas cultural institution.

For 50 years he has perforated wood, metal, linoleum and stone, teaching his pupils the secrets of engraving and becoming one of the most outstanding promoters of this art in Cuba during the second half of the twentieth century.

Alicia Alonso still maintains her graceful way of talking and the elegant movement of her hands and head. Sixty years as director of the Cuban National Ballet Company, to be marked in October, have perhaps made her body less flexible, but her enthusiasm for ballet -the art discipline through which she best expresses herself- remains the same.

Participants in the 4th International Conference on the Work of Karl Marx and Challenges of the 21st Century, underway in Havana, will dedicate a special session on Tuesday to the case of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States.

Golding is making an official visit to Cuba and he put a flower offering at the base of the monument to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti at Havana Revolution Square, in his tour on the Jose Marti Memorial.