Johannesburg - The Joburg Ballet of South Africa opens today a season of the world classic "The Swan Lake" with dancers Viengsay Valdes from Cuba and Brooklyn Mack from the United States as leading figures.

The leading ballet dancers from the National Ballet of Cuba and the Washington Ballet, respectively, will perform again on April 17 dancing as leading figures in various performances of the season that begins today.

Havana -The Composition Prize returns to Casa de las Américas was summoned here by the cultural institution and in its sixth edition will evaluate about two dozen works from 10 countries.

María Elena Vinueza, director of the Department of Music of Casa, highlighted the Latin American and Caribbean mark of this venue that will be in sesión from April 6 to 10 in this capital. In parallel to the prize will session the Fourth Latin American Workshop on Composition and Interpretation that will feature the performance of Puerto Rican group of Contemporary Camera Music, Alea 21.

Artemisa, Cuba - More than 700 titles for children, young persons and adults will be available to readers in the province of Artemisa, where were inaugurated this Tuesday the Twenty-Fourth Book Fair and Literature.

Until next April 12 the shelves and kiosks of the fairgrounds in this municipality will market about 79 000 copies, said Margarita Callamo Vaillant, Provincial Director of the sector of Culture.

The International Biennial of Graphic Humor, Cuba 2015, under the theme "War Games" will become a place for fraternity and understanding. The Circle of comedians and cartoonists of the Union of Cuba Journalists and the Humor Museum in San Antonio de los Baños, together with the Provincial Culture Department of Artemisa sponsor the nineteenth edition, to be held from April 5th to 8th 2015 .

The event is held every two years, cartoonists from around the world, the question of this edition moves the most suggestive answers.

Bogota - Hundreds of artists and thinkers participate in the Summit of Arts and Culture for Peace opened today for the first time to support efforts seeking the end of the armed conflict in Colombia.

According to organizers, creators and intellectuals from around the world will participate in the event, which fosters spaces to discuss the role they can play to promote a scenario of peace in Colombia, after more than 50 years of conflict.

Havana - Cartoonists from 23 countries will compete at the 19th International Cartoonist Biennial to take place in Cuba from April 5th to 8th, jury president Reinerio Tamayo announced today.

Cartoonists and comic writers from the Cuba’s Journalists Union and the Humor Museum in San Antonio de los Baños, are promoting the meeting between national and foreign professionals.