Havana - Cubans celebrate Cuban Culture Day on Saturday to commemorate October 20th, 1868, the date in which Cuba’s National Anthem was sung for the first time.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel called on Saturday at the closing of the First National Conference of the Union of Culture Workers, not to confuse the will to have all the potentialities and possibilities for creation with the eagerness to commercialize art.

Havana - Cuban musician Jesus ''Chucho'' Valdes will be honored on Thursday at the 6th edition of the annual La Musa Award due to his career and contributions to that event throughout his 50-year career.

Buenos Aires - ''As long as the United States continues attacking the Cuban people as if the Cold War continued, it will be attacking the right of all peoples to peace, sovereignty and development,'' Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel stressed in Buenos Aires.

Havana - With the participation of around 300 delegates from all over the country, Havana is hosting Tuesday the Third Congress of the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS), a group of young Cuban avant-garde artists.

Hanoi, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) Cuba added on Tuesday the charm of its music to the 6th Latin American Cinema Cycle in Vietnam with the movie El Benny, based on the life of Bartolome Maximiliano More Gutierrez, or simply El Barbaro del Ritmo.Multi-award winning since its premiere in 2006 -it was the island's option to the Oscars the following year- the film was favorably received by Hanoians, who paid attention to the plot, but at the same time moved the feet under the influence of certain catchy chords.