The album Sobreviviente, by popular duet Buena Fe, won the Grand Prize at Cubadisco 2017 International Fair, which took place in Havana 14-21 May.
Recorded with local record label EGREM, the work includes 13 tracks written by Israel Rojas, and one co-authored with Frank Delgado and Vicente Trigo. The album won two other awards for Best Fusion Album and Best Sound Realization, announced in the awards gala held at Havana´s Astral Theatre.

With a concert in the capital John Lennon Park, today (1 June 2017) Cuba remembers The Beatles, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, considered the best album by the legendary British band.

The most recent film by the Cuban director Fernando Pérez, Last Days in Havana, will go on general release across Cuba from 1 June, after winning several international awards.

Cuba's National Sex Education Center (CENESEX), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MINED), kicked off a year-long anti-bullying initiative that will focus on teacher training, support materials, and methodology to prevent homo- and transphobia bullying in the nation's schools.

Cuba will only be represented by one team from the University of Havana (UH) in the finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association of Computer Machines (AMC-ICPC), known globally as the Computing Soccer World championship, before the United States authorities' refusal to grant visas to a team of Pinar del Rio's Hermanos Saíz University.

At the event which took place in South Dakota, USA May 20-25 with over one hundred universities from 44 countries participating, Cuba was represented by the UH++ Alma Mater team, while Pinar del Rio's sUrPRise team was denied participation.

The oral narrator Zaida Montells Mendoza received the Special Award for Living Heritage 2017 during the opening session of the 7th Conference on Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, which takes place in Camaguey this May.

The 14th Design Week, May 8-12 in Cuba's capital, concluded with the convocation of the 2019 Havana Biennial of Design, to be focused on "Design beyond form."

Cuba celebrated Africa Day this Thursday, May 25, with an event held in Havana, attended by members of the Party Political Bureau, Salvador Valdés Mesa, a vice president of the Council of State; Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People's Power; and Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, minister of Foreign Affairs.

We have two tickets to see Cubanisimo! led by Jesús Alemañy in London on Friday 16 June to give away, courtesy of Marco and HavanatoLondres!

Dear Friends:

Waning cinema attendance is a phenomenon affecting today's film industry, as spectators abandon theaters, preferring to watch movies in the comfort of their own homes. In Cuba however, although the number of cinemas has been declining, there still exists a genuine passion for film.

Creators from around 20 nations from Latin America, Europe and the United States will be here to celebrate the 9th International Design Congress of Havana 'Forma2017' from June 7 to 9, organizers announced 4 May.
'Design ConCiencia' is its additional title for this year, in which several countries, such as Mexico and Colombia, have already doubled the number of participants.

A constellation of great musicians on stage, Hollywood star Will Smith as master of ceremonies and piano legends Herbie Hancock (US) and Chucho Valdés (Cuba): Cuba hosted the biggest jazz festival in the world on Sunday 30 April.

Cuban teacher Santiago Alfonso, winner of the National Dance Award 2006, had the honor of giving the message for International Dance Day on 29 April.

A documentary produced by a Belfast-based production company debuted at the world-famous Tribeca Film Festival in New York this April.