Cuban musicians Alain Pérez and Iván "Melón" Lewis , along with the Septeto Santiaguero, were nominated last week for the 2015 Latin Grammy Awards, convened annually by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences of the United States.
This contest, the most important of the Iberian-American sound context, showed in its nominations for this 16th edition some of the island's instrumentalists and composers with great reputation in the international market.
Iván "Melón" Lewis, a pianist, a composer and a jazz musician of exceptional caliber, stood out for his nominations in the categories of Best New Artist and Best Latin Jazz Album, with the piece Ayer y hoy, under the label of Cezanne Productions.
In the category of Best Traditional Tropical Album, he mentioned, among proposals for the award, the discs Tributo a Los Compadres, No quiero llanto and El alma del son – Tributo a Matamoros, by Josè Alberto, El Canario, & the Septeto Santiaguero and Alain Pérez, respectively.
The first of these albums was recorded by the label Los Canarios and the second one by Warner Music Spain S.L. / Peermusic.
Finally, in the sections devoted to audiovisuals, the video clip Ojos color sol, a theme featuring Calle 13 with Silvio Rodríguez, was nominated in Best Short Form Music Video.
Mexican singers Leonel García and Natalia Lafourcade lead with six and five nominations each the nominations for the Grammy Awards of Iberian American music in the United States, followed by Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra and Spanish musician Alejandro Sanz, who will compete in four categories including Album and Recording of the Year.

From 25th September until 18th October the theatres in the Cuban capital will celebrate the ‘Human Voices' (Las Voces Humanas/Les Voix Humaines) festival.
Organised by the office of maestro Leo Brouwer, the event aims to give the opportunity for different voices from all over the world to come together in a call for peace and to take care of the environment. It will include more than 30 foreign and national groups, together in a remix in homage to the grandees of popular song.

Raisa Valdivia Hernandez is a passionate Catholic who regularly attends Mass. But she is also a "santera," a practitioner of the Yoruba faith that slaves brought to Cuba from their native Africa centuries ago.

The Cuban Recordings and Musical Editions Company (EGREM by its Spanish acronym) and its American counterpart Sony Music Entertainment signed in Havana on 16 September contracts for large-scale international distribution of Cuban music, including the catalog of this national label.

Watch this poetic short film 'Ensayo sobre lo fluide' (an essay on fluidity) by Hector Zamora for this year's Havana Art Biennial about a performance project at the Havana art school 1960s amazing buildings with composer Wilma Alba.

Great figures of African and Caribbean contemporary art are to exhibit some of their works in Paris to stand up against manifestations of slavery, still evident today in the world. Sensitive to this problem because of the imprint left by the slave trade in their respective countries, artists from Benin, Dominican Republic and Cuba introduce us deeply into the issue of contemporary expressions of slavery, organizers of the exhibition declared.

Pauline Vermare: Iliana, it is my great pleasure to be collaborating with you on the exhibition ¡CUBA, CUBA! 65 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY that will open at the Southampton Arts Center on August 13. Would you tell us about yourself? How did you come to work on photography?

Ministers of Culture of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) approved 19 September in Cuba a cultural action plan focused on social development and in the protection and conservation of heritage.

The film Playing Lecuona, co-directed by Cuban Pavel Giroud and Juanma Villar, from the canary Islands, was premiered at the Montreal World Films Festival.

The Republic of Cuba's Council of State, September 10, made an extraordinary decision, in recognition of Alicia Alonso's contributions to Cuban and international culture, to designate the current Havana Grand Theater as the "Alicia Alonso" Grand Theater of Havana, as an appropriate, well-deserved tribute to her work.

José Milián (Matanzas, 1946) as director of the company Pequeño Teatro de La Habana, with his stagings and as a dramaturge, is today one of the indispensable names in Cuban theatre.

An expert on ethical business and sustainability is working on a musical about former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

This exhibition of painting and sculptures forms the UK's first comprehensive presentation of the Cuban group of abstract painters Los Diez Pintores Concretos (Ten Concrete Painters). Including the works of eleven artists who were associated with the group, which was active from 1959 to 1961, the show explores the development of geometric abstraction at a time when Cuba was plighted by political disorder and cultural shifts.
Featured artists include: Pedro Álvarez, Wifredo Arcay, Mario Carreño, Salvador Corratgé, Sandú Darié, Luis Martínez Pedro, Alberto Menocal, José Mijares, Pedro de Oraá, José Ángel Rosabal, Loló Soldevilla, and Rafael Soriano.

On the Day of St. James, the patron saint of the city, 25 July, Carnival Santiaguero was eclared Cultural Heritage of the Nation, at a ceremony at Avenida Jesus Menendez.
Julian Gonzalez, Minister of Culture, read the resolution that declares the Rumbón Mayor also known as Heritage.
Next to Raul Gonzalez Fornés Valenciano, president of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power (Mayor), composer Enrique Bonne, and actor Dagoberto Gainza, impersonating St. James were.
With nearly four centuries of existence, Santiaguero Carnival is undoubtedly the most popular celebration of roots in the city and its scope many years crossed the borders of the territory of the province and of Cuba.