An unprecedented event will take place in Havana from September 11 to 21: Habanarte, a great festival of national culture that will deal with all Cuban artistic expressions. Representing music, singing and dance there will be more than 100 famous groups or soloists.
Sponsored by Cuba's Ministry of Culture, Habanarte is to have a program that also covers Plastic Arts, crafts, literature, audiovisual materials, and theatre. There will be also a set of theoretical events where instrumentation, music, and dance master classes stand out for their importance, as well as visits to community projects, museums and historical places.

Juan Formell, who died Thursday, May 1, in Havana, was one of the most internationally recognized Cubans of his time, and an artist whose music transcended boundaries: national, generational, and political.

From May 1st-17th, one of Cuba's top artists Ernesto Villanueva is coming to London's fashionable Fitzrovia to exhibit his work.

The 7th Cuban Day against Homophobia (IDAHO) will include a regional conference of the International Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People in Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC),for the first time in Cuba.

After nine years, the first Cuban animated full film in 3D Menique ('Little finger'), directed by Ernesto Padron, will be premiered in the cinemas of the Caribbean island during the first week of July.
Menique was a long and arduous process which seemed it would never come to an end. ICAIC's (Cuban Film Institute) first experience in 3D turned it into a school for its makers. It was an extended and hard path for the little hero to show his adventures to the public since in the seventies Tulio Raggi cherished the idea and asked Ernesto Padron to design the characters. The old project never materialized, although Padron always thought of doing it.
The voices of the film have been recorded by Lieter Ledesma, Yoraisi Gómez, Manuel Marín, Corina Mestre, Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera and Osvaldo Doimeadiós and its soundtracks went by Pancho Amat, Edesio Alejandro, the National Symphonic Orchestra, Miriam Ramos, Anabel López and Ernesto Yoel Espinosa. Unlike many people might think, it wasn't the lack of financing which slowed down the production.

Abel Prieto, Advisor to the Councils of State and Ministers and former Culture Minister, spoke on the challenges Cuban culture is facing today to OnCuba magazine following the UNEAC (Union of artists and writers in Cuba) congress just concluded.

Kcho: "Silence is bad, people dislike lack of communication, and then they make documentaries about people like that of the National Geographic Channel where human suffering appears as if it were of a lion in Serengeti, Africa."

One of today's most prominent composer-guitarist alive makes his London debut performing at the Bolivar Hall. Eduardo Martin's music is currently recorded and performed top guitar performers worldwide such as LAGC, Iliana Matos and Shin Ichi Fukuda. A Grammys award nominee, his creations seamlessly blend classical, Latin american, contemporary and Cuban languages gaining him a great acclaim from both the critics and public in general. For one night only in May, London will have the privilege to experience a recital packed with several UK premieres.

The section Moviendo Ideas (Ideas in Movement), part of the Young Filmmakers' Showcase, analyzed the short film 'ABECÉ:The Universe of a Girl, Mother and Woman' by Diana Montero (Havana, 1986), who obtained a Mention in the documentary section at the 13th Young filmmakers Showcase event in April.

A Havana theatre company has found a new home at an old bicycle factory as part of the efforts underway in Cuba to turn old industrial sites into cultural centres.

World Series of Boxing meeting was first of home-and-away series between the US Knockouts and the Cuba Wranglers.

Sylvie Collier's film about the talented, identical Cuban triplets To Dance Like A Man will be broadcast on Sky Arts 2 and Sky Arts 2 HD on FRIDAY, TODAY, April 11th at 6.40pm.
Identical triplets Angel, César and Marcos, age 11, share the same passion: to become great ballet dancers. And each wants to be picked for an important ballet in Havana, Cuba. Who will be chosen? Their teachers at the world-renowned National Ballet School of Cuba say all three triplets have equal talent, potential and determination to become the first trio of identical boys to achieve stardom. This film offers a rare perspective on what it takes to achieve professional success in the context of Cuba's surprising international impact on development of great dancers.

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Watch this video of the super talented AfroCuban jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca.

The 2014 National Film Award came as a surprise to Cuban filmmaker Juan Carlos Tabio. In exclusive statements to Cubacine said: "Honestly, did not know or that was the date of delivery. It was a surprise. I am not ungrateful. "