Culture

Venezuelan intellectual Luis Britto is one of the five members of the international jury for the ALBA Literature and Arts Award, whose winners will be announced on January 30.»

The upcoming 500th foundation anniversary of Trinidad and Sancti Spiritus, the third and fourth villages founded by Diego Velazquez in Cuba, is enough pretext for a celebration that has derived several changes in both territories.»

Famous musicians will star Sunday in the concert Misa Cubana (Cuban Mass), composed by Jose Maria Vitier for Our Lady of Charity, the Patron Saint of Cuba.»

A life-size sculpture of Cuba’s National Hero, Jose Marti, will travel to Berlin, capital of Germany, for the 160th anniversary of the birth of the hero, national television reported.»

The 28th International Jazz Plaza Festival opens Thursday in Havana with a concert by Maestro Chucho Valdes at the centrally located Mella Theater.»

More than 20,000 people gathered at the University of the Arts,or ISA in spanish, to enjoy the concert of Italian rock singer Zucchero Fornaciari, which was dedicated to Cuba and the victims of hurricane Sandy.»

With the music of the Cuban orchestra Los Van Van, was inaugurated at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater, the 34th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.»

The 34th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema gets underway Tuesday in Havana till December 14.»

Cuban singer Tony Avila is in France to offer a unique concert with the band Toure Kunda, one of the main referents of African music.»

Over 500 films from 46 countries will be shown at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in its 34 edition.»