Awarded throughout her career with hundreds of international awards, the legendary Cuban ballet dancer Alicia Alonso was named this week while visiting Segovia in Spain, World Ambassador of Dance by UNESCO.

During the 38th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema held in December last year, the Cuban film El Techo (The Roof), by local filmmaker Patricia Ramos, was nominated in the fiercely contested debut fiction film category.

The Cuban Cinematheque has received the certificate of registration of the Cuban film posters collection at the National Registry of UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Programme.

We have two tickets to see Cuban salsa/timba superstar Issac Delgado and his group in London on Saturday 22 July to give away, courtesy of Marco and HavanatoLondres!

Carlos Alberto Masvidal Saavedra wasrecently awarded the National Design Award in Cuba. He talked to La Jiribilla about his artistic concerns, the importance of the award, and the current state of design in Cuba.

Vamos Cuba! will be at the Peacock Theatre, London 24 October – 11 November 2017

Top Cuban actor Luis Alberto Garcia has published his wry but impassioned response in Cuban cultural magazine La Jiribilla to US president Trump's announcement in a theatre in Florida about the future of Cuba-US relations.

Born into a family of exceptional dancers, and despite the fact that none of them were musicians, from an early age Maykel Blanco enjoyed hearing music played on the radio or television. At 15 years of age he started his first amateur band, and by 18 was already directing his first professional group, La Suprema Ley. Since then Maykel has been working with this, and his most recent group, Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor.

The 37th Edition of the Caribbean Festival began on Monday in Santiago de Cuba with the participation of 700 representatives from over 20 countries. This year the festival is dedicated to the island of Bonaire.

The 1st edition of the Festival called "Arte Soy" ('I am Art') organized by the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS) in Ciego de Avila province began in June with a condemnation of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.

We, the Cuban artists and writers, kindly address you in relation with the outrageous and incredible policy change made the past June 16th by the President of the United States.

"Graphic design is the most difficult among all the specialties of the visual arts because you can not be yourself. It is about getting a large mass of people to acquire or take a service, product or idea that we show, unlike a painter, for example, who is self-confident first when doing a work. A graphic designer has to achieve a consensus, pure technical creation, with the client, be it an individual, a state or a system of faith. It is a matter of satisfying that demand of others and that which the public may have. However, as with design, in general, this specialty is sometimes underestimated. "

Three years ago, the young writer and promoter Yecenia Ramírez Sosa (Guantánamo, 1985) created, with some friends, the Literary Promotion Project ‘Graphomania'. It is a project that marked the beginning of a new generation of writers from the eastern province of Guantánamo, born since 1980, which has resulted in the presentation of their first published writing at this year's International Book Fair in February in Cuba.

Yubis Zapata had to stop playing baseball when he lost his eyesight during military service due to an explosion, so for him, it is a miracle to be able to play once more, in Cuba's growing league for the blind.