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.

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."

The Havana Art Biennial has consistently defended transforming daily live into motifs for the artistic creation; an intention that has evolved to become a method of work. The twelfth edition of the biennial, to be held from May 22 to June 22, strongly ratifies this.

For an entire month, Havana will become a dynamic and living place to think on and live the art. Under the curatorial idea “Between Art and Experience,” multiple proposals and ideas invite feeling “the city and its people.” One of them is from painter and video maker Chemi Rosado, who has dedicated an important part of his work to community initiatives and public interventions.