Renowned popular Cuban musician, Paulo Fernandez Gallo, better known as Paulo FG, will hold a concert at Havana’s Karl Marx Theatre on Saturday, September 1st at 9pm.

Former Cuban ballet dancer and teacher, Mirta Hermida, passed away in Havana on Wednesday as a result of a heart attack.

Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and Director of the Cuban National Ballet Company, Alicia Alonso, will receive the Leonid Massine Positano Dance Award on September 8th in Italy in recognition of an exemplary life dedicated to dance creation.

The Opera de la Calle or Street Opera Company, directed by baritone Ulises Aquino, premiered the show 1959 at the emblematic Karl Marx Theater over the weekend.

Circus artists from 14 countries are taking part in the 2012 Circuba Festival, which began in the Cuban capital’s Karl Marx Theater with the attendance of Cuban Culture Minister, Rafael Bernal.

Cuba celebrates the 90th anniversary of the first Cuban commercial radio signal established by Luis Casas Romero.   

National Fine Arts Award Laureate, Cuban artist Nelson Dominguez, and three sculptors from eastern Las Tunas, began to cast the ceramic pieces of a mural scheduled to be unveiled in that city on August 24th.

Traditional Cuban music and food will soon enrapture with its Caribbean charm the cosmopolite Canadian city of Toronto, which is celebrating next August 25^th the 17^th Annual Toronto-Cuba Friendship Day.

The International Cuban “Rumba” Festival Timbalaye 2012 began in Havana Saturday with a tribute to the National Folk Ensemble on its 50th anniversary.

A symposium gathering Cuban and foreign hip hop artists and activists began in Havana’s Casa del Alba Cultural with the opening of the exhibition Hip”Objetivo La Habana.

Renowned Cuban musician X-Alfonso has been a hit at La Cueva cultural center in the German capital as part of a current tour of Europe. The concerts have been attended by Cuban, Latin and German audiences.

On the occasion of his 86^th birthday, a collective exhibit about Cuban leader Fidel Castro opened at the José Martí Memorial in Havana’s Revolution Square on Monday, August 13th. 

Renowned Cuban fine artist Maykel Herrera is back from Germany, where his exhibit La verdad parece un cuento or Truth looks like a tale is a hit in Berlin.

An interesting exhibition was recently opened at the Cuban Photographic Library, which features more than 80 pictures that were taken using several techniques between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th on the island.

Renowned Cuban artists, such as Flora Fong, Ever Fonseca, Rigoberto Mena and Luis Enrique Camejo are presenting their work in London at the invitation of the 2012 Olympic Arts Committee in the Chapter “Creative Cities Collection and Olympic Fine Art London 2012.”