The 15th International Book Fair Cuba 2016, concludes today in Havana and begins a tour of the country, which runs until April 24th.

Photographer Iván Nápoles will be given the National Cinema Award 2016 on March 24, the anniversary of the foundation of ICAIC, announced the President of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry (ICAIC), Roberto Smith.

While waiting for the release this year of the film Winds of lent, of the Spanish director Félix Viscarret, prolific Cuban writer Leonardo Padura and his most famous character: Mario Conde, are today closer to cinema. Although the author of the famous tetralogy "The Four Seasons" is pleased with the tape, he confessed that writing for this genre is much more complicated.

The Rolling Stones will perform a groundbreaking concert in Havana, Cuba on Friday March 25, 2016. The free concert will take place at the Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana and will be the first open air concert in the country by a British Rock Band. Always exploring new horizons and true pioneers of rock, the Stones, who have toured every corner of the globe, will bring their high octane performance and incredible music catalogue to the Caribbean for the first time ever.

Love in Havana is the title of the first Chinese-Cuba cinema coproduction scheduled for shooting in Havana in early March, between a Chinese audiovisual producer and Cuban RTV Comercial film company.
RTV Comercial general director and Zhen Dawei, film director, signed the accords on Tuesday to implement the co-production project.
Ortega told ACN that the film is the first in a joint project to produce audiovisuals that reflect the cultures of China and Cuba. But the most important thing is that this project will bring Chinese and Cuban talents together to make a cinema that unites us, he noted.
The full-length film tells the story of Chinese students that fall in love here while taking their education courses and expose the difficulties of a relationship between people of different cultures.
Zheng Dawei thanked RTV Comercial and the Moncada music band, in charge of the soundtrack, for achieving a goal that was being pursued for the past two years.

This film will be the first in a project that will include another four joint movies in Cuba.

"We wanted our traditional music to live on and to enchant the world and this is what our tours achieved. It has been an incredible part of my career and life." Omara Portuondo

Paintings and drawings created by up to 30 artists living and working in Cuba will bring to London a taste of the exciting current art scene on the island when Presente! Contemporary Art from Cuba opens at the GX Gallery in London later this year. It will then move to the Searcy Gallery on the 38th floor of the Gherkin, one of London's iconic landmarks. The exhibition is a project of the Music Fund for Cuba charity in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture in Cuba, and organisers are appealing far and wide for support for this unique event. The island's music and dance have always enchanted audiences in Britain and now Presente! will introduce Cuba's visual arts.

Just like the African and universal culture he has helped us discover, Rogelio Martínez Furé is multifaceted and singular. His versatility reflects his ability to transform himself, to be a poet or a reciter of entire books, of myths and legends, making good use of his wondrous memory – which, he says, is a result of his connection to oral culture since he was a child, when he listened to living libraries, who sweetened his ears with songs and tales from all ages.

A film by Charlie Inman featuring Muñequitos de Matanzas, Clave y Guaguancó, Rumberos de Cuba, Osain del Monte, Raíces Profundas, Timbalaye. Narrated by Gilles Peterson. Musical advisor: Crispin Robinson. The full documentary was premiered in London in November 2015.

Cuban and foreign artists painted three murals in Santiago de Cuba city during the 12th International Biennial InterNos dedicated to that artistic form and during the earthquake situation the region has been facing during the last 10 days. From the first days of January Cuban artists and others arriving from Spain, United States, Dominican Republic and Denmark began their artistic tasks and maintained such labour despite the seismic activity registered in eastern Cuba.

It is hard to believe that over the last two decades, a young black man from Havana has worked his way up to being celebrated as a national treasure in this country, with a CBE from the Queen in 2014, no less. That man is of course Carlos Acosta, who has just said farewell to the Royal Ballet in London after 17 years as a principal dancer.

Cuban cultural community project Claustrofobias Promociones Literarias will be presented during the annual International Havana Book Fair this February. Its director Yunier Riquenes and team are already working on the promotion of activities together with the the Association of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC), the Cuban Book Institute, the Hermanos Saiz Association and other organizations.

Jose Marti is venerated as the father of Cuban Independence. A poet and journalist, Marti led an insurrection in 1895 against the Spanish government in Cuba. 28 January, the anniversary of Marti's birth is marked across Cuba each year.

The Musicabana Foundation announces international superstars Major Lazer – the collaborative project of Diplo, Walshy Fire and Jillionaire – will perform in Havana on Sunday, March 6, 2016, becoming one of the first major American musical acts to perform in Havana since diplomatic ties were restored between the United States and Cuba just over one year ago.

Art allows for collective and individual moments. Even when a generation of actors became well known in the 1980s for their excellent dramatic talent, the first years of the 21st century feature isolated artists with great natural flair. So is the case of Héctor Medina, a bright young hope of Cuban cinema who has earned high praise from film critics and movie fans in Cuba.