Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso to receive the Golden Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from Spain

The famous choreographer and Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso will receive the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts from the Spanish Council of Ministers, which every year awards personalities or entities that contribute to the promotion and spreading of art, culture and artistic heritage. Read More

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Carribean Awards for Cuban Radio

Cuban Radio achieved six awards at the competition called every year by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) to stimulate the best productions of that media in the region. Read More

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Cuba will join the celebrations for the International Museum Day

Cuba will join the celebrations for the International Museum Day, next May 18, with different activities in the close to 300 institutions of that sort in the Capital. Read More

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Solidarity with the Cuban Five On The Rise in Australia

A meeting in solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the U.S. was held in Sydney, the capital of Australia, by scholars and members of friendship and political organizations. Read More

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In the Havana Chinese Quarter

The Chinese Quarter of Havana is more than a group of small and narrow streets situated in the same core of Centro Habana municipality. It is a small city with geographical boundaries in the area around the Aguila and Dragones streets. Read More

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Cuba devotes colloquy to Ecuadorian journalist Carlos Bastidas

Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, attended the meeting in the International Institute of Journalism José Martí, where they pay homage to who represents the perseverance in the exercise of writing about the truth and who was the last reporter murdered in Cuba, victim of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Read More

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Alfredo Guevara, Important Cuban's Intellectual and Movie Maker, to be Awarded the Latinidad 2008 Prize

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. Read More

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Cuba Will Celebrate International Day against Homophobia next May 17

Cuba will celebrate the International Day against Homophobia, next Saturday May 17, date when the World Health Organization eliminated the homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. Read More

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In Holguin, Cuba: Guayasamin and Peter Nadin Exhibition in May Festival

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. Read More

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Teams Party Still in Force in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba

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. Read More

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