Havana - The National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) today will dedicate a staging of the classic Don Quixote to the main musical event of the island, Cubadisco, and Russia, as Guest of Honor of the 2015-edition.

Although the literary work The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote was born in Spain more than four centuries ago, from the pen of Miguel de Cervantes, the first ballet version appeared in Russia in 1869, created by choreographer Marius Petipa and the premiere took place at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Havana - Awarded French-Greek filmmaker Costa Gavras will give a keynote speech today in Cuba to students of the International Cinema School in San Antonio de los Baños.

Invited by the organizers to the 18th French Cinema Festival in this island, Gavras traveled for fifth time to Cuba to share experiences and screen his most recent film "Capital."

Holguin, Cuba - The 22nd Romerias de Mayo Festival concludes today here with the sowing of the tree of friendship and hoisting of the Taino Axe, an event attended by more than 350 foreign delegates from 26 nations of the five continents.

Become the World Artistic Youth Festival, from May 2 to 8, the meeting, in which all art converge, has this city, about 774 kilometers east of Havana, as a permanent scenario., sponsored by the Hermanos Saiz Association, bringing together the new Cuban creators.

Holguin - The 12th edition of the Romerias de Mayo festivities starts today in Holguin, with the goal to found the Artistic Youth World Festival and the presence of 26 countries from America, Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia.

Musicians, artists, researchers, dancers, writers, painters and cultural promoters visit The City of Parks, 770 km from Havana, to attend the traditional celebrations.

The library "Punto y Coma" in San Antonio de los Baños start selling the new release of the journalist and writer Nicanor León Cotayo.

"Miami pinceladas," the author extends about Miami, one of the major cities that make up the southern state of Florida, but also very related to the history of Cubans.

The author conducted research in books, documents, testimony and a selection of articles he wrote for CubaSi website. The play opens in the XVI century and tells torn particularly significant events in its history until today.

Havana - A screening of the best French films of the last two years burns onto Cuban movies as of today with the beginning of the 18th French Cinema Festival, an event with a lot of followers in the island.

The movie "Timbuktu," winner of the highest award of French film, the 2014 Cesar Award, will be the gift of the opening gala tonight at the Havana's Chaplin Movies.